70 years of AI hype

Quoting from Olivia Guest et al. (2025) "Against the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia."

Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

I don’t think there’s compelling evidence that using AI makes you less intelligent overall1. However, it seems pretty obvious that using AI to perform a task means you don’t learn as much about performing that task. Some software engineers think this is a decisive argument against the use of AI. Their argument goes something like this:

Opinion | AI Is the Future. Higher Ed Should Shape It.

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Nathan Witkin on Twitter / X

Does anyone disagree that pretty much every piece of empirical evidence we have about actually existing AI points toward a labor-augmenting technology with a more-or-less ordinary risk profile (no worse than cars, guns, nuclear power, social media, etc.)?On the labor front, the…— Nathan Witkin (@NateWitkin) October 5, 2026

‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom

Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?

No. 008: AI co-mathematician, compiler-verified protocols, open infrastructure bets - The Hallway Track

The Hallway Track No. 008 - How AI is affecting the practice of science

How should social science think about AI?

Big structures and large processes are back, baby

AI’s Next Chapter Requires Human Expertise

The future of AI doesn’t just require technical skills; it demands deep human expertise, writes Annie K. Lamar.

Bret Victor - The Future of Programming

I think this talk gives lots of food for thought. Are we too entrenched in our ways, to think in other/better ways?

AI as Normal Technology

A new paper that we will expand into our next book

Most Americans say AI development is moving too fast and twice as many are AI pessimists as AI optimists

Young adults are more likely than older Americans to believe that AI will create economic gains that benefit everyone, but they are also more likely to worry that AI will replace jobs they depend upon

Mathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse them

I talked to 20 mathematicians about rapid AI progress in their field.

The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us

what happens when AI automates "normal science"?