I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +
Jun 17, 2026 at 3:55 AM
The Room Where AI Happens
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The Breath of the Author
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Graduation Speaker Shocked When She’s Loudly Booed by Students for Saying AI Is the Future
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"A bit of a shift from a year ago where we were all about the AI PC."
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Senator Bernie Sanders has a viral video making the rounds in which he “interviews” Anthropic’s Claude chatbot about the dangers of AI and privacy. It has over two million views. …
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Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’
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I am disappointed in the AI discourse
Blog post: I am disappointed in the AI discourse by Steve Klabnik
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I had the honor of giving a keynote at the International Conference on Machine Learning last week. I addressed the widespread anxiety about how we should adapt as AI capabilities increase. I was thrilled by the talk’s reception, so I have made my slides available cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks/icml-2026-anno…
What will be left for us to work on?
www.cs.princeton.eduVery eager to hear people’s thoughts on this video. I think he explains the issues with the left’s current rhetoric surrounding AI very well.
The Left Has An AI Problem
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