Hi. This email is only relevant for today, so it won't be in the public archives.

If you're going to be joining us in about an hour (at 8pm EDT), the link and everything is at the bottom of the email, but I wanted to share some reflections that might be useful to start the conversation when we get together.

This week we read a couple of pieces:

• Disabling Intelligences chapter 2: "A Taxonomy of AI"
• ""A natural language interface for everyday life": The social and political functions of AI capabilities discourses" by Justine Zhang, Su Lin Blodgett, & Nina Markl in _FAccT Conference 2026