The Vacuum of Expertise

A few months ago in April, someone described a proposal floated in a government meeting: a ban on AI models above 100 billion parameters. The person relaying it wasn't a technologist.

The Wrong Variable

There is a question everyone asks about AI and one almost nobody asks about us. Will the system be aligned gets asked constantly, in every register, by people who disagree about nearly everything

What Happens Next

There is a question no one in the AI-in-education debate is asking clearly: what happens to the brain that doesn't do the work? Not the brain that uses AI

The Graph Said So

There is a finding from a 2024 study published at the ACM CHI Conference that deserves more attention than it has received. Researchers analyzed nearly nine thousand COVID-19 data visualization posts on

In the Absence of Reason

There is a pattern I keep running into. I’ve implied it and written around it, but it is time to be more direct. A researcher observes a behavioral output in an AI