Oct 21
For reference, some of the older sources mentioned in my October 30, 2024 op-ed in the Montreal Gazette:
“gouging out your eyes”: Calgary Herald, 26 February 1992, A6.
“shooting itself in the head”: Proceedings of the House of Commons Committee on Bill C-63, June 10, 1992.
“important to the country’s prosperity”: Ottawa Citizen, 27 February 1992, 5.
A short note, based on recent experience with ChatGPT and other AI applications.
In the future, academics will write articles that are designed to be read by AI applications, not by other humans. Our understanding of good writing style will adjust to fit the needs of those applications.
Just as we design web pages so that they fit the requirements of search engines (search engine optimization, SEO), we will write articles with AI optimization (AIO) in mind.
We will do this for two reasons:
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My new commentary, “how to bridge east and west,” is now available (open access) from the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration.
I’ve written a column for The Conversation, “What those mourning the fragility of American democracy get wrong.” Also in Spanish.
I’ve written a short comment tied to the fiftieth anniversary of the Minnowbrook Conference on the state of public administration. Read it here.
I talked with Arnie Arnesen of The Attitude on WNHN FM about my recent column on American exceptionalism. The interview can be heard here.
The Conversation has published my column, “The age of unexceptionalism.”
The Conversation has published my comment on realism in politics: “It’s a turbulent world. Stop stressing and adapt.” The article is also reposted on Salon.
Bob Cox and I will conclude our terms as co-editors of Governance at the end of 2017. Each of us have written close-out commentaries. Mine is titled “Our Asian challenge.” The PDF of the commentary can be downloaded here.
My column “Let’s end the first hundred days” has been posted on the Oxford University Press blog. Read the column.
Alasdair S. Roberts 
