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AI as Normal Technology

AI as Normal Technology

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LatestTopDiscussions A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement? The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates 4 hrs ago • Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor 101 5 12

September 2026

AI existential risk probabilities are (still) too unreliable to inform policy How speculation gets laundered through pseudo-quantification Sep 28 • Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor 152 21 25 The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities Sep 14 • Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan 274 54 49

August 2026

AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research Early evidence from two case studies Aug 5 • Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan 194 27 25

July 2026

What will be left for us to work on? My keynote at ICML 2026 Jul 13 • Arvind Narayanan 349 30 61 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 Jul 9 • Arvind Narayanan 173 24 31

June 2026

Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t Coding agents as normal technology Jun 11 • Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor 600 89 110

May 2026

Did Google’s AI agents really build an operating system for $916? The importance of independent evaluation May 22 • Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan 144 25 11 Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention? Let’s not skip the hard work of AI governance May 21 • Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan 85 9 19

April 2026

Open-world evaluations for measuring frontier AI capabilities Introducing CRUX, a new project for evaluating AI on long, messy tasks Apr 16 • Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan 99 7 14

February 2026

New Paper: Towards a science of AI agent reliability Quantifying the capability-reliability gap Feb 24 • Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan 328 36 71 AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper Applying the AI as Normal Technology framework to legal services Feb 12 • Justin Curl, Sayash Kapoor, and Arvind Narayanan 86 13 15

January 2026

Fact checking Moravec's paradox The famous aphorism is neither true nor useful Jan 29 • Arvind Narayanan 174 10 25

September 2025

A guide to understanding AI as normal technology And a big change for this newsletter Sep 9, 2025 • Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor 234 29 42

July 2025

Could AI slow science? Confronting the production-progress paradox Jul 16, 2025 • Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan 325 37 70

May 2025

AGI is not a milestone There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts May 1, 2025 • Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan 199 37 40

April 2025

AI as Normal Technology A new paper that we will expand into our next book Apr 15, 2025 • Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor 636 40 132

December 2024

Is AI progress slowing down? Making sense of recent technology trends and claims Dec 18, 2024 • Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor 171 15 29 We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem. Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution. Dec 13, 2024 • Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan 119 6 23

November 2024

Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients? Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects Nov 11, 2024 • Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor 103 11 7

October 2024

FAQ about the book and our writing process What's in the book and how we wrote it Oct 4, 2024 • Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor 90 13 6

September 2024

Can AI automate computational reproducibility? A new benchmark to measure the impact of AI on improving science Sep 18, 2024 • Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan 48 2 2 Start reading the AI Snake Oil book online The book was published on September 24, 2024 Sep 10, 2024 • Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor 199 8 10

August 2024

AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good. Turning models into products runs into five challenges Aug 19, 2024 • Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor 230 24 27 © 2026 Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan · Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice Start your SubstackGet the app Substack is the home for great culture