The Fork in the Road: AI Horseless Carriages or Collective Intelligence for Science - Cosmik Labs
Accelerating Science with Human+AI Review
This issue of NEJM AI features the first two articles published through our accelerated human+AI review process. In this editorial, we describe the invitation-only “Fast Track” process used to revi...
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people an…
What happens when AI replaces the parts of work people love?
We’re using AI to move faster. I’m not yet convinced we’re using it to work better.
AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what's happening now.
AI is now unpopular. That may not make a difference.
Eroding a virtue: AI trains people to expect instant answers – and that’s bad news for patience
Patience is a virtue that researchers have linked to many parts of well-being. But it’s also something that needs a bit of practice and training – and can be undermined by instant, easy gratification.
Is AI the next Dumbwaiter?
The demand for AI's unbridled growth is reactionary — a way of doubling down on the same old colonizing way of doing things. It doesn't have to be.
Want to understand the current state of AI? Check out these charts.
According to Stanford’s 2026 AI Index, AI is sprinting, and we’re struggling to keep up.
AI FOR EPISTEMICS & COORDINATION
Civilization and technology have radically improved the human condition. Nonetheless, the world sometimes goes in directions which essentially nobody would prefer — e.g., nuclear arms races, unexpected financial crashes, predatory marketing, or ubiquitous political misinformation.
Is there something it is like to be an AI?
Posted on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025. 1,593 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.
AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden.
The Jagged AI Frontier
The nonintuitive strengths and weaknesses of AI performance relative to human performance, and how it is changing over time.
AI 2027
What will be left for us to work on?
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
Taking more seriously the claim that recent ML models do not "reason", it still is quite odd the particular ways that superhuman game-playin…
General-purpose large language models outperform specialized clinical AI tools on medical benchmarks
StoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fiction
