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
Why I'm (sort of) not worried about AI | Jack Conte
As a creator, and as a leader of a tech company, I have a deep sense of conflict about AI. I feel outrage, but I also feel something else. O
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
Is there something it is like to be an AI?
Posted on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025. 1,593 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.
We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'
We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.
Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
How AI Could Transform the World for the Better
Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
How AI Could Transform the World for the Better
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.
Dario Amodei, hype, AI safety, and the explosion of vibe-coded AI disasters
What the AI cheerleaders don’t tell you
How To Think About AI (with Cory Doctorow)
AI might just be useful once we get through the huckster phase.
Meet Foundry: An AI Startup that Builds, Evaluates, and Improves AI Agents
A guide to understanding AI as normal technology
And a big change for this newsletter
AI*-generated sexual deepfakes
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started
The Worst Person You Know Just Filed A Good First Amendment Lawsuit Against A Very Badly Drafted Nudify App Ban
Xでの児童ポルノ・盗撮取引の投稿 15カ月間で66万件超 Grokを収集に悪用 | Tansa
性暴力コンテンツ野放しの日本 「雲泥の差」韓国の削除対応とは
xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity
Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X
