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What will be left for us to work on?
AI Snake Oil 2w ago
What will be left for us to work on?
My keynote at ICML 2026
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Up the Stack: How AI’s Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in
AI Snake Oil 3w 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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Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
AI Snake Oil 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t
Coding agents as normal technology
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Did Google’s AI agents really build an operating system for $916?
AI Snake Oil 2mo ago
Did Google’s AI agents really build an operating system for $916?
The importance of independent evaluation
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Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention?
AI Snake Oil 2mo ago
Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention?
Let’s not skip the hard work of AI governance
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Open-world evaluations for measuring frontier AI capabilities
AI Snake Oil 3mo 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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New Paper: Towards a science of AI agent reliability
AI Snake Oil 5mo ago
New Paper: Towards a science of AI agent reliability
Quantifying the capability-reliability gap
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AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper
AI Snake Oil 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 5mo ago
AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper
Applying the AI as Normal Technology framework to legal services
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Fact checking Moravec's paradox
AI Snake Oil 6mo ago
Fact checking Moravec's paradox
This famous aphorism is neither true nor useful
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A guide to understanding AI as normal technology
AI Snake Oil 10mo ago
A guide to understanding AI as normal technology
And a big change for this newsletter
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Could AI slow science?
AI Snake Oil 1y ago
Could AI slow science?
Confronting the production-progress paradox
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AGI is not a milestone
AI Snake Oil 🤖 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 as Normal Technology
AI Snake Oil 1y ago
AI as Normal Technology
A new paper that we will expand into our next book
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Is AI progress slowing down?
AI Snake Oil 📰 AI News & Updates ⚡ AI Lesson 1y ago
Is AI progress slowing down?
Making sense of recent technology trends and claims
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We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem.
AI Snake Oil 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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Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients?
AI Snake Oil 🛡️ 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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FAQ about the book and our writing process
AI Snake Oil 1y ago
FAQ about the book and our writing process
What's in the book and how we wrote it
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Can AI automate computational reproducibility?
AI Snake Oil 🛡️ 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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Start reading the AI Snake Oil book online
AI Snake Oil 1y ago
Start reading the AI Snake Oil book online
The book was published September 2024
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AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good.
AI Snake Oil 🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ⚡ AI Lesson 1y 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 existential risk probabilities are too unreliable to inform policy
AI Snake Oil 🛡️ 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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New paper: AI agents that matter
AI Snake Oil 2y ago
New paper: AI agents that matter
Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
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AI scaling myths
AI Snake Oil 2y ago
AI scaling myths
Scaling will run out. The question is when.
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Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle
AI Snake Oil 🛡️ AI Safety & Ethics ⚡ AI Lesson 2y ago
Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
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