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A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement?
The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates
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AI existential risk probabilities are (still) too unreliable to inform policy
How speculation gets laundered through pseudo-quantification
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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 can't yet do open-ended AI research
Early evidence from two case studies
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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
Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place
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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?
The importance of independent evaluation
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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
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
Quantifying the capability-reliability gap
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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
The famous aphorism is neither true nor useful
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A guide to understanding AI as normal technology
And a big change for this newsletter
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Could AI slow science?
Confronting the production-progress paradox
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AGI is not a milestone
There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
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AI as Normal Technology
A new paper that we will expand into our next book
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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.
Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
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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
What's in the book and how we wrote it
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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
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Start reading the AI Snake Oil book online
The book was published on September 24, 2024
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AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good.
Turning models into products runs into five challenges
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