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I had the honor of giving a keynote at the International Conference on Machine Learning in Seoul last week titled “What will be left for us to work on?” I addressed the widespread anxiety about how we should adapt as AI capabilities increase. I was thrilled by the talk’s… pic.twitter.com/GEq0q6hEM0— Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) July 13, 2026

Presentations — Benedict Evans

Every year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. New in May 2025, ‘AI eats the world’.

Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in maybe 5 years

"A bit of a shift from a year ago where we were all about the AI PC."

Reflections on the Cooperative AI Conference | Platform Cooperativism Consortium

I am just returning from our conference on Cooperative AI in Istanbul. Part of what I love about conferences—what keeps me doing this, convening these global PCC events —is meeting people who are both…

233. "The Illusion of Thinking" — Thoughts on This Important Paper

This is a fantastic paper. I just love it. tl;dr AI is not human. Anthropomorphization has been bad for AI, LLMs, and Chat. Clippy walked so today's AI could run.

The Room Where AI Happens

A weekend at the Curve conference—an AI insider gathering in Berkeley revealed how people think about AGI timelines, China, creativity, and writing

Resetting on engineering expectations in the age of AI

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March 2026 Global Dialogues Survey | Windfall Trust

Here’s what the world had to say about the AI economy

The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025

An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people an…

What we can’t measure about AI – yet | Aeon Essays

The costs of transformative innovations are immediately clear: it’s the longterm gains that are hardest to understand

AI as the greatest source of empowerment for all

I’ve always considered myself a pragmatic technologist—someone who loves technology not for its own sake, but for the direct impact it can have on people’s lives. That’s what makes this job so exciting, since I believe AI will unlock more opportunities for more people than any other technology in history. If we get this right, AI can give everyone more power than ever.