Dr Paul Duignan’s radio psychology clips covering a range of popular psychology topics aired on commercial radio. Go to clips.

Recent short media Audio and Video interviews

Recent short media interviews with Paul. Effect of chatbots and AI on jobs, particularly white-collar jobs, on education and assessment and on how politics may be flooded with well-written propaganda.

Apple has now entered the Big Tech race to implement AI throughout their offerings. Paul comments here in a TV news segment on where things are at now that Apple has entered the fray. Also, see Paul’s Substack on this where he outlines the four demands consumers should be making of the Big Tech players as they battle it out over AI.

Paul’s opinion piece on the problem of validating information in the AI age and how the traditional and established media can leverage their traditional source checking to become AI watchdogs for their reader communities.

The Herald podcast talks to Paul (second half) about how people are now so suspicious and on the lookout for manipulated images and what this means for us as we move into a world of endless AI-fabricated text, images, audio, and video.

Opinion piece by Paul on how we are now moving into a synthetic informationscape with AI and how people will react by closing themselves off behind an ‘information moat’ and only listen to those they trust.

Interview on TVNZ Breakfast with Paul on the use of AI images in political advertising. Making the point that using AI images is likely to reduce trust in politicians, which is already very low. As with other domains, AI in politics is going to be very disruptive.

Here The Spinoff gives us a shout-out ‘Two months ago, psychologist and AI commentator Paul Duignan said there was every reason to think AI would be used in the New Zealand election and so it has come to pass.’

The Privacy Commissioner has issued guidance on organisation’s responsibilities under the Privacy Act. Here he responds to Paul’s question as to whether this would cover organisations scraping non-private information from the internet to profile people.

Paul’s suggestion that people should ask politicians what their AI policies are is taken up in this media article. The limited current policies of NZ political parties are examined, but hopefully, they will improve.

Comment on impact on IT, will human-produced text attract a premium in an AI-text world? Paul on how should governments respond to the AI revolution - regulation, assessing impacts and using AI itself.

TV and coverage of workshops Paul runs on the impact of AI and chatbots in sectors such as education. Teachers, management and boards need to quickly understand the wave of change that is upon us.

Comment on the new features included in ChatGPT-4. Safer, more accurate and will ultimately be able to take images as input, which is part of the process of connecting chatbots to the outside world.

Comment on how the new wave of smart chatbots are likely to create a wave of credible-looking but unreliable information flooding the political process.

Comment on how chatbots can produce 25 times as many scam emails for the same price and flood government consultation.

Comment on how chatbots’ ability to answer professionals’ questions ultimately may dent professionals’ self-esteem.

Opinion piece by Paul on how it is useful to know how best to interact with chatbots. Outlines six rules for getting the most out of them.

Opinion piece by Paul on how chatbots will impact society. Initial ideas two weeks after ChatGPT was released.

Opinion piece by Paul on how, if social media’s business model was different and we were the customer, not the product, we could get it to nudge ourselves in ways that would promote our well-being.

Opinion piece by Paul on how in online work, where one person is assisting another (e.g. tech-support), visualisation of the problem being worked on is essential.

Opinion by Paul on how humanity is in a great position to deal with climate change, we have the knowledge we just need voters to pressure politicians to act now.

Opinion piece by Paul on how as climate change transforms the climate, many people living in cooler places are enjoying the mild heatwaves with no realisation of what they mean for the future.

Opinion piece by Paul on public opinion and climate change. The pandemic disrupted climate action, but as the effects are felt, public concern is likely to increase.

Opinion piece by Paul wondering when decision-makers and the public will finally move into emergency mode action on climate change - but this has not happened yet.

Opinion piece by Paul on how school performance measurement needs to take into account the level at which pupils in different schools start. Paul’s outcomes theory explains why.

Opinion piece by Paul arguing that when governments set targets they should visualise the underlying ‘strategy diagram’ for what they are trying to achieve to ensure targets are relevant.

Opinion piece by Paul pointing out that social scientists are excluded from receiving a Nobel Prize unless they do so under one of the physical sciences or economics and that this is a serious mistake.