In November 2026 I gave a talk at the Brazen Festival of Tech, Creativity and Culture with the title “Is AI Accelerating the Age of Average?”.
Here’s a synopsis from the event listing:
“In March 2023 Alex Murrell published his viral essay 'The Age of Average', which argued that from film to fashion and architecture to advertising, creative fields had become dominated and defined by convention and cliché. In every field he looked at, everything looks the same. That was months after the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT. Now, as we approach modern AI's fourth birthday, Alex checks in on where we are and asks a potentially provocative question: is AI accelerating the age of average?”
The talk extended and updated the thinking in my 2023 article, “The Age of Average”.
Thank you to the team at techSPARK and Bristol Creative Industries for the invite.