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Hello out there,

Another week, another fusillade of grim news, at least stateside here. Hope folks can take the 4th of July holiday weekend to recharge and get out to the beach or the lake or wherever. I’m certainly going to. In fact, I’m embarking on a long-planned family trip—I…

Greetings all,

Hope everyone’s hanging in. Going to try to keep this on the shorter side, given that it’s a holiday week and all. But I was seeing a number of celebrations (very justified) over what looks like a victory (and it is) but one that comes with an enormous…

Greetings critics, coders, friends and luddites — 

How are we holding up out there? Any one else feeling a few fleeting glimmers of hope breaking through the dark polluted skies? Increasingly rare stuff these days, gotta take it whilst we can. But we have a lot to get to, much…

Two legal rulings in favor of the AI industry this week seem like they're victories for the companies, suggesting training is transformative and therefore, fair use. But hidden in the rationale of both cases are indications of deep-seeded legal problems around training – it's just up to authors and their…

“What will AI mean for jobs?” may be the single most-asked question about the technology category that dominates Silicon Valley, pop culture, and our politics. Fears that AI will put us out of work routinely top opinion polls. Bosses are citing AI as the reason they’re slashing human staff.…

“What will AI mean for jobs?” may be the single most-asked question about the technology category that dominates Silicon Valley, pop culture, and our politics. Fears that AI will put us out of work routinely top opinion polls. Bosses are citing AI as the reason they’re slashing human staff.…

If you missed it, my piece in Tech Policy Press tackles the relationship the AI industry has with uncertainty: using what they don't know about AI as evidence that they're right, or that it should be feared, or that it can't be properly regulated.

The "Black Box" myth is often…

Greetings all,

Hope everyone’s hanging in there during [whatever fresh horror has most recently arisen as you are reading this]. Seeing as how we now horrifically teeter on the brink of all-out war, I almost gave up on publishing this edition altogether. But there’s just so much going on in…

When Sam Altman published his latest blog post “A Gentle Singularity”, my first thought was, ‘ok so how much is OpenAI trying to fundraise this time?’ It was a half-assed joke to myself, not initially intended for public consumption, an occupational hazard of spending too much time observing the AI…