Cal Newport

A new research paper titled “AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance,” which was recently presented at the Conference on Language Modeling, has been attracting attention.

Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior.

Yesterday, multiple Anthropic employees casually announced online that they thought the types of AI they’re building could kill billions of people.

Yesterday, Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic engineer, resigned.

Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land using traditional techniques and wrote with pencil and paper in a cabin lacking electricity.

I thought I was done talking about the OpenAI hacking attack from July, but I was wrong.

The AI story of the summer should probably be the uncertain financial position of the AI labs hoping to launch record-breaking IPOs shortly.

Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley.

A couple of weeks ago, the AI company Hugging Face announced that they had discovered an intrusion into their production infrastructure.

Last week, Rose Horowitch published a splashy Atlantic article titled “The End of Reading is Here.”