Bewildering and Discombobulating
This is the first of a series of pieces based on Mary Meeker’s recent deck about AI. The first is an overview of the technology and its current impact.
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AI and the Shrinking Perimeter
(No AI was used in the writing or illustrating of this post. AI was used in research but its results have been checked manually. This is another in a series of pieces exploring the frontiers between human and AI work. Here’s another.) AI is here to stay, and it’s moving fast. We are a little … Read more
Anticipating the wave train of AI
We’ve been poor about trying to predict the real, lasting impact of generative AI. It’s not through lack of trying: some have talked about rethinking the way our economies run and how we think about our lives, to treating it as an existential risk, to treating AI as a foundational, or general purpose, technology that will change everything. I’m … Read more
We need to talk about our AI fetish
Artificial intelligence puts us in a bind that in some ways is quite new. It’s the first serious challenge to the ideas underpinning the modern state: governance, social and mental health, a balance between capitalism and protecting the individual, the extent of cooperation, collaboration and commerce with other states. How can we address and wrestle … Read more
