La machinerie

Themes

The texts published on this site are written by Ahmed Messaoudi. Artificial intelligence appears here as a tool for dialogue, exploration and reformulation (see the method). The intellectual choices, the organisation of ideas, the final structure of the texts and their publication remain the author's responsibility.

Teaching resources and tools

Entries usable in class or guidance work, moving from conceptual landmarks to guided practice.

Recognising Your Digital Habits Measure screen time, map a day and question digital habits. Teaching sequence · Digital empathy Rediscovering Empathy Debates, pleadings and a class charter to work on online disinhibition and responsibility. Accompanying Dialogue with AI A three-step pathway to keep intention, judgement and decision at the centre. Deliberation workshop The Sanctuaries Game Sixteen cards to decide what must never be delegated or automated. Practical workshop · Sobriety Install a Small AI Locally Four tools by skill level to run a small AI on your own machine, and check offline that it works locally.

Fiction

Staged situations for seeing differently.

Reflections

Texts for thinking about AI.

Identify the Issues

Identify biases, dependencies and new fragilities.

  1. 1 Time, Body and Biology
  2. 2 Information and Reality
  3. 3 Identity and Thought
  4. 4 Power, Control and Society
  5. 5 Work and Economy
  6. 6 Environment
  7. 7 Social Bonds and Relationships

To situate the approach: A Digital Ethic.