Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis

Visiting prof @Stony Brook; fellow @Montclair State; emeritus prof @CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism. Co-host: This Week in Google, AI Inside. Author of The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, The Web We Weave, available at: https://jeffjarvis.com

Articles & links

The problem, I've been shouting, is not the technology but humans: It is impossible to predict--thus forbid--every malign use to which a general machine can be subjected. Guardrails are fools' comfort. Why A.I. Safety Controls Are Not Very Effective www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/…

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I love the Guardian. Best we have. Journalism's last hope. But its digital puritanism (after early years of digital love) drives me nuts. They tell us to give up phones and the net and now AI. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Take that, Elon. Jury Rejects Musk’s Claims Against OpenAI wsj.com/tech/ai/jury...

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Brockman's hubris: “The company very much needed me to come in and help.” He and his wife gave "$50 million to two super PACs aligned with President Trump and the AI industry." The Billionaire Coding Genius Making the Tough Decisions at OpenAI www.wsj.com/tech/openai-...

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6 ways I say Axios can warp journalism 5 ways Pope Leo says AI could warp humanity www.axios.com/2026/05/25/p...

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Recent commentary

Mastodon's AI-aided addition of alt-text is wonderful (everyone should have it). Bonus: How it reads The Times' gothic logo.

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The anonymous slander campaign against NJ7 candidate Rebecca Bennett gets more disgusting by the day. This just arrived in our mail. No, this doesn't require AI to make a photographic lie. It requires only the dark soul of a chickenshit liar.

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