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AI Snake Oil
1d ago
The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents
A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities

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🤖 AI Agents & Automation
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1mo ago
AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research
Early evidence from two case studies

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📰 AI News & Updates
2mo ago
What will be left for us to work on?
My keynote at ICML 2026

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🤖 AI Agents & Automation
⚡ AI Lesson
2mo ago
Up the Stack: How AI’s Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in
Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place

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🤖 AI Agents & Automation
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3mo ago
Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
Coding agents as normal technology

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📰 AI News & Updates
3mo ago
Did Google’s AI agents really build an operating system for $916?
The importance of independent evaluation

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🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
3mo ago
Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention?
Let’s not skip the hard work of AI governance

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📰 AI News & Updates
5mo ago
Open-world evaluations for measuring frontier AI capabilities
Introducing CRUX, a new project for evaluating AI on long, messy tasks

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📰 AI News & Updates
6mo ago
New Paper: Towards a science of AI agent reliability
Quantifying the capability-reliability gap

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🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
7mo ago
AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper
Applying the AI as Normal Technology framework to legal services

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📰 AI News & Updates
7mo ago
Fact checking Moravec's paradox
This famous aphorism is neither true nor useful

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📰 AI News & Updates
1y ago
A guide to understanding AI as normal technology
And a big change for this newsletter

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📰 AI News & Updates
1y ago
Could AI slow science?
Confronting the production-progress paradox

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🤖 AI Agents & Automation
⚡ AI Lesson
1y ago
AGI is not a milestone
There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts

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📰 AI News & Updates
1y ago
AI as Normal Technology
A new paper that we will expand into our next book

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📰 AI News & Updates
⚡ AI Lesson
1y ago
Is AI progress slowing down?
Making sense of recent technology trends and claims

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📰 AI News & Updates
1y ago
We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem.
Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.

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🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
⚡ AI Lesson
1y ago
Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients?
Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects

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📰 AI News & Updates
1y ago
FAQ about the book and our writing process
What's in the book and how we wrote it

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🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
⚡ AI Lesson
1y ago
Can AI automate computational reproducibility?
A new benchmark to measure the impact of AI on improving science

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📰 AI News & Updates
2y ago
Start reading the AI Snake Oil book online
The book was published September 2024

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🛠️ AI Tools & Apps
⚡ AI Lesson
2y ago
AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good.
Turning models into products runs into five challenges

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🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics
⚡ AI Lesson
2y ago
AI existential risk probabilities are too unreliable to inform policy
How speculation gets laundered through pseudo-quantification

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📰 AI News & Updates
2y ago
New paper: AI agents that matter
Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
DeepCamp AI