My Thoughts on AI, Part 1: Fears, Opinions, and Mental Journey
My own personal thoughts and opinions on AI effects and usage, and how those have evolved over time
AI is now unpopular. That may not make a difference.
This is Going to be Very Messy
This is Going to be Very Messy
My Thoughts on AI | Jack Conte
Hey creators! I’ve been thinking a lot about AI over the last year, but I’ve mostly been speaking about it in little short form clips and in
Bernie Sanders “Interviewed” A Chatbot To Expose AI’s Secrets. It Has No Secrets. It Just Agrees With You.
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. …
We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well
A book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes. Its problems go beyond that.
Mark Zuckerberg is excited to add more AI content to all your social feeds
Is AI the next era of social media?
Marc Andreessen can’t explain AI’s benefits, either.
Joe Rogan accidentally asked a hard question! He noted that Andreessen has said that the people who are running AI haven’t done a good job explaining AI’s benefits. He asks Andreessen to do it. Andreessen’s pitch appears to be “thinking is too hard.” Well, increasingly, I do believe thinking is too hard… for Andreessen. The rest of us — you know, normal people — are thinking just fine. [Media: https://www.tiktok.com/@fanpowerfuljre13/video/7641675615833197854?_r=1&_t=ZT-96VfWh5XKYQ]
The left-wing case for AI
In Many anti-AI arguments are conservative arguments I argued that left-wing anti-AI sentiment1 is partly a backlash to two unrelated events around the rise of ChatGPT: the crypto mania of 2022 and the pro-Donald-Trump push many big tech CEOs made in 2024. If the timing had been different, we could have had a real pro-AI faction on the left. What would that look like?
70 years of AI hype
Quoting from Olivia Guest et al. (2025) "Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia."
The Thoughts The Civilized Keep
The hype around a new AI language generator reveals the sterility of mainstream thinking on AI today — and indeed on how we think about thinking itself.
An AI CEO finally said something honest
24K votes, 828 comments. Dax Raad from anoma.ly might be the only CEO speaking honestly about AI right now. His most recent take: “everyone's talking…
Is there something it is like to be an AI?
Posted on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025. 1,593 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.
