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Sarah O'Connor

Reporter · IE

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 27, 2026
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Sep 13, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Sarah O'Connor

    The descent of man: are we developing a distaste for effort? (opens the original)

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    Agatha Christie wrote the intricately plotted novel And Then There Were None because, she later explained, she wanted to attempt something really hard: “I had written this book because it was so difficult to do that the idea had fascinated me.” This human tendency – to push ourselves to do things we know will be difficult – 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

  2. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Sarah O'Connor

    That’s not your job: AI ushers in a blurring of the lines at work (opens the original)

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    Some workplaces are more territorial than others. In newsrooms, for example, most reporters guard their own “beats” 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 – and who isn’t. 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

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