"At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!" www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-ma...
Who's Who of AI
Henry Farrell
Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
What they're sharing
programmablemutter.com
AI as Social Technology | Blavatnik School of Government bsg.ox.ac.uk
Melanie Mitchell: The Dangerous Unknowns at the Heart of LLMs yalereview.org
AI as Social Technology knightcolumbia.org
Reify This theideasletter.org
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DoW CIO Kirsten Davies (@DoWCIODavies) on X x.com
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Articles & links
If you're in Oxford, I'll be giving this lecture tomorrow (riffing on my and Cosma's work, obvs, with shoutouts to other co-conspirators too) www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/ai-so...
This, by @melaniemitchell.bsky.social is a strong, subtle overview of where we are at yalereview.org/article/mela...
and this with Cosma is in part about how the two ideas fit together knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...
Henry Farrell reposted
I think you'll enjoy this: www.theideasletter.org/essay/reify-...
One possible interpretation of the Mythos/Fable ban is that it is part of a shakedown for a substantial pre-IPO equity stake in Anthropic. x.com/DoWCIODavies...
AI as social technology - I gave the Astor Lecture at Oxford's Blavatnik School last week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSE6...
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