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Tech, ethics & sustainability - simplified, sharpened, and made human.

Your Degree Cost £27,000. Your Professor Doesn't Know You Exist.

Dec 3, 2025

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8 min read

Your Degree Cost £27,000. Your Professor Doesn't Know You Exist.

The death of friction in learning and how to build the Learning Equalizer.

Ash Mondal
Ash Mondal
If AI Makes the Song, What Still Makes It Human?

Nov 20, 2025

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8 min read

If AI Makes the Song, What Still Makes It Human?

Hope, disruption and what we protect in the age of AI

Ash Mondal
Ash Mondal
What Does Your Prompt Really Cost?

Nov 11, 2025

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7 min read

What Does Your Prompt Really Cost?

Inside AI's race to find endless power - from orbiting data centres to a hundred gigawatts on Earth.

Ash Mondal
Ash Mondal
The Empathy Paradox

Nov 3, 2025

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7 min read

The Empathy Paradox

We’re teaching machines to sound empathetic but are we forgetting how to be empathetic ourselves?

Ash Mondal
Ash Mondal
When Trust Feels Automatic?

Oct 26, 2025

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5 min read

When Trust Feels Automatic?

The machine didn’t lie. It just sounded right - proof of how easily fluency can masquerade as truth.

Ash Mondal
Ash Mondal
Driverless Cars, Jobless Futures?

Oct 5, 2025

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6 min read

Driverless Cars, Jobless Futures?

Who decides how automation reshapes our jobs, our streets and our daily lives and whose interests does it serve?

Ash Mondal
Ash Mondal

AI Safety

Would You Board a Plane That Skipped Its Safety Checks?

Sep 23, 2025

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5 min read

Would You Board a Plane That Skipped Its Safety Checks?

The need for AI's stress testing

Ash Mondal
Ash Mondal
Regulating Intent, Not Just Technology

Sep 16, 2025

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5 min read

Regulating Intent, Not Just Technology

Deepfakes can heal or harm. Regulation should decide which.

Ash Mondal
Ash Mondal
Use it or Lose It: Why AI’s Mental Shortcuts Don’t Affect Everyone Equally

Aug 31, 2025

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5 min read

Use it or Lose It: Why AI’s Mental Shortcuts Don’t Affect Everyone Equally

From London's black cabs to ChatGPT: why mental muscles need exercise too

Ash Mondal
Ash Mondal
The Hidden Inequality in Efficiency

Aug 23, 2025

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5 min read

The Hidden Inequality in Efficiency

As AI ratchets forward, does it turn harder for some than others?

Ash Mondal
Ash Mondal
The AI with a Label

Aug 16, 2025

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5 min read

The AI with a Label

Would you use AI differently - if you knew the cost?

Ash Mondal
Ash Mondal
AI Gave Me a Gender...It Wasn’t Wrong - It Was a Reflection.

Aug 7, 2025

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4 min read

AI Gave Me a Gender...It Wasn’t Wrong - It Was a Reflection.

A while ago, I asked ChatGPT a simple question: “Who am I?”

Ash Mondal
Ash Mondal

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