Sarah O'Connor
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Sep 27, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Irish Times
- Top 5K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Sep 13, 2026
Latest articles
The descent of man: are we developing a distaste for effort? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Agatha Christie wrote the intricately plotted novel And Then There Were None because, she later explained, she wanted to attempt something really hard: âI had written this book because it was so difficult to do that the idea had fascinated me.â This human tendency â to push ourselves to do things we know will be difficult â might well help to explain our success as a species. So, at least, argued the mathematician and philosopher Jacob Bronowski in a wonderful 1973 documentary series, Th
Thatâs not your job: AI ushers in a blurring of the lines at work (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Some workplaces are more territorial than others. In newsrooms, for example, most reporters guard their own âbeatsâ jealously and give toe-treaders short shrift. I suspect we are a special case, but even so, the majority of organisations have a pretty clear idea of who is responsible for what â and who isnât. But for how much longer? On-the-ground reports from a range of workplaces suggest the traditional boundaries of many occupations are beginning to weaken as people use artificial int
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
Top 5K sites
For Irish Times, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026
Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.