The real AI singularity is not Terminator. It is averageness, spreading like a cancer through human thought. Human writing has shape — rare, irregular, surprising, unmistakably itself. AI writing is a slug: the weighted average of human creativity, optimised for the median. It eats carrots for breakfast. Breeds. Multiplies.
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⦿ Why averageness — not AGI — is the biggest threat to human civilisation
⦿ What the data tells us about the shape of human vs AI writing
⦿ Why defending linguistic distinctiveness is a freedom of expression issue
⦿ What emerging tools exist to deal with the problem
⦿ How journalists, writers, readers, and publishers can join the fight
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Available as keynote (45 min), keynote with Q&A (60 min), panel, or fireside chat. Best suited to literary festivals, arts organisations, universities, publishers, and media organisations. David brings both the practitioner perspective — having built enterprise AI at scale — and the civil society perspective as a trustee at Article 19, the global freedom of expression organisation.