Catherine Howe on her philosophical approach to working with AI models:

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how to help people get started with AI. Not the technical side — there are plenty of people better placed than me for that — but the more fundamental question of how to approach it. What mindset do you bring? What’s the skill that unlocks it? I’m seeing people feel daunted, or underwhelmed, or frustrated, but as with most bits of new technology: the barrier isn’t usually the technology. I’m finding this even more the case with AI.

As I’ve started experimenting myself I’ve actually gone back to skills I learnt in my undergraduate degree and I’m coming to think the skill we need isn’t computer science or data literacy or anything obviously modern. It’s philosophy.