AI Week Special: Holiday Anti-Gift Guide
A Buy Nothing Day Anti-Gift Guide of AI gifts to never buy for anyone, ever.
AI Week Nov 23: Techno-necromancy, Chucky, & a poetic jailbreak
A Waymo hits a cat, technology becomes necromancy, and an AI teddy tells a kid how to light matches.
AI week Nov 1: How to turn off unwanted AI tools
Plus: AI and teen suicide - Boosting AI literacy - Regrettable AI products - & more
AI week Oct 21: Riddle me this
Dead Internet, AI's sameness problem, and a riddle
AI Week Thanksgiving Edition: AI Video
Get your smiler ready, because there are a lot of comics in this week's AI week. But first, meet Tilly Norwood.
AI Week Sep 28: AI Safety vs the Antichrist
This week's focus is on AI/ML applications that have been in the news, from the weird and wonderful to the woefully awful. Plus, Peter Thiel thinks that AI regulation will bring on the Antichrist.
AI Week Sept. 21: Hallucinations are inevitable
Hi and welcome to this week's AI week! In this week's issue: Hallucinations are inevitable Don't use AI to summarize research Something fun: We have AI now...
AI Week Sep. 14th: Accessibility, a game-changing new standard, & AI psychosis
Hi! Welcome to this week's AI week. I'm doing something new this week. I wanted to make it easier for you to share the stories in this newsletter...
AI Week Sept 7th: The $1.5 Billion Week
Anthropic's $1.5B settlement - No net gain from Copilot - You've been vibepwned
AI Week Labour Day: Anthropic settlement, AI backlash, & more
Happy Labour Day! In this week's AI week: Anthropic settlement, AI backlash, Automated Elephant Detection, and more. Plus Comics!
AI Week Aug 23: AI bubble, AI safety, mind-reading, and more
Hi! Welcome to this week's AI week. This week's newsletter is jam-packed with interesting stories. I have two weeks' worth of news to curate, and there's...
AI week Aug 8th: Pre-vacation edition
Hi! I'm about to go on vacation for a week. That means no newsletter next Friday. I'll be in the woods by a lake, ignoring the news. It also means that I...
AI week Aug 3: How AI is changing the internet; AI's Evil Week
3 ways AI is changing the Internet, and 3 stories about misalignment in AI models and makers.
AI week Jul 27: Why AI lies, and other stories
3 cool things we've learned thanks to AI; why AI lies; ChatGPT's lack of legal privilege; and more
AI Week Jul 14: How AI is changing us
A six-pack of stories about ways that widespread generative AI use is already changing us.
AI Week Jul 13: Artificial friends, and other AI helpers
Hi! In this week's AI week: Redefining human relationships Let a thousand app flowers bloom Goldman Sachs hires Devin... ... the FDA has Elsa... and X has...
AI Week Jul 6: Could scientific papers be going the way of the resume?
Hi! In this week's AI week, I want to talk about developments in the way working scientists are using LLMs like ChatGPT to do the work of writing, reading,...
AI Week June 29: Copyright and Bood Food
This hasn't been a happy week for authors who didn't want generative AI trained on their work.
AI week Jun 22
In this week's AI Week: Who needs humans? And yet... The kids are not OK Some of the grownups aren't OK either Meta: helping you accidentally share your...
AI Week: Back from the dead!
Hi! It’s been a while since I sent out a newsletter. Thank you for sticking with me! No excuses for the gap, but a couple of good reasons: A new job! Last...