“Because every camp needs a book right now”
AI has limits, even if many AI people can't see them
On Ben Recht's fantastic new book
Reading List: AI and the Future of Human Autonomy
Open-source reading list from a discussion group hosted by the Liberty Fund
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
How To Think About AI (with Cory Doctorow)
AI might just be useful once we get through the huckster phase.
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?
Reflections on AI's writing ability and how AI models get more capable.
Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop
...so I vibe-coded a tool for finding more of them
Critical AI
On this page are some resources for Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.
God Damn AI is making me dumb
It's so god damn tempting to use AI to write. Whether it is articles, code, or documents. I feel like using AI is diminishing my ability to write myself. ...
The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our lab Slack to share news, experiences, and memes. We had several long and grueling lab meetings talk
Should AI Be Open?
I. H.G. Wells’ 1914 sci-fi book The World Set Free did a pretty good job predicting nuclear weapons:They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands…before the l…
Study Guide: Empire of AI by Karen Hao (SuperSummary)
Analyzing literature can be hard — we make it easy! Thi…
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.
