UCF's commencement speaker was visibly shocked when graduating students booed AI as the "next Industrial Revolution."
"I just find AI to be creatively soulless": Casey Hudson on the controversial tech and Star Wars: Fate Of The Old Republic
"I’m just really unimpressed with it."
Ronny Chieng on Instagram: "@harvard College Class Day 2026 featured speaker Ronny Chieng speaks about A.I. Video: Harvard University"
37K likes, 423 comments - ronnychieng on May 28, 2026: "@harvard College Class Day 2026 featured speaker Ronny Chieng speaks about A.I. Video: Harvard University".
AI Is Quietly Changing Who Gets to Build Software
What If Universities No Longer Need Edtech Companies?
Andrew Ng: The Biggest Opportunities in AI Aren't Where You Think
Resetting on engineering expectations in the age of AI
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Dario Amodei, hype, AI safety, and the explosion of vibe-coded AI disasters
What the AI cheerleaders don’t tell you
AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class
America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?
Ronny Chieng on Instagram: "@harvard College Class Day 2026 featured speaker Ronny Chieng discusses the advantages and disadvantages of A.I Video: Harvard University"
1M likes, 22K comments - ronnychieng on June 4, 2026: "@harvard College Class Day 2026 featured speaker Ronny Chieng discusses the advantages and disadvantages of A.I Video: Harvard University".
Women Who Use AI Seen As Incompetent; Men Who Use AI Seen As Pragmatic
A 2026 study found that when women and men use AI tools to create identical resumes, evaluators view the women as less competent, while crediting the men with initiative.
Something Big Is Happening
A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.
AI Safety Is a Narrative Problem · Special Issue 5: Grappling With the Generative AI Revolution
This op-ed explores power and narrative dynamics around AI. Drawing on pop-culture references, the professional experiences of the author and examples from 2023’s “Great AI Safety Hype Roadshow,” this piece draws on the literary criticism technique of practical criticism to consider how speeches and announcements from both Silicon Valley executives and research scientists to interrogate the media-friendly nature of p(doom) discourse—which focuses on the existential risks of AI (PauseAI, 2023)—and its likely consequences. The complexities of AI and its numerous social impacts can be difficult for even the most expert analyst to unpack. In spite of this, the potential of “existential threats” has successfully cut through to become a mainstay of mainstream media coverage over the last year. This piece will make the case that this is an effective narrative conceit that has achieved a number of ends that traditional science communication tends to find difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. Firstly, it is easy to understand. Simplification of this nature—that removes jargon and complexity and focuses on a single outcome—is much easier to fit on a TV rolling news ticker or on the cover of a tabloid newspaper than more well-balanced, representative opinions. Secondly, it inherits prior assumptions from well-known dramatic forms. P(doom) plays to stories familiar from Greek tragedy through to Marvel movies, in which lone male heroes battle ineluctable forces. Thirdly, it is imbued with urgency and so becomes difficult to ignore.
A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…
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In this essay, Carson Gross discusses his advice to young people interested in computer science worried about the future given the advancements in AI.
Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?
A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.
Karpathy says developers have 'AI Psychosis.' Everyone else is next.
Anthropic’s Mythos, Gen Z’s backlash, and Meta’s token binge all point to the same shift: developers are feeling AI first, but not for long.
AI is a software un-crisis
I haven't asked her, but I bet Margaret Hamilton feels right at home bossing Claude around.
