Archive - 𝐀𝐈 𝐋𝐨𝐠

Nobody here but us chickens

How "trained incapacity" explains why leaders of NGOs are celebrating Trump's executive order on AI

19 hrs ago •

April 2025

There is a mushroom in my computer

Complex adaptive systems and social intelligence are ideas that help explain what large AI models do. That does not make their outputs safe to consume.

Apr 27 •

Notes for "Balancing Innovation and Integrity in Academic Operations"

In the spirit of Richard Scarry's masterpiece "What Do People Do All Day," here is a presentation I am giving today as part of my new job: talking to…

Apr 23 •

Old ways of thinking about new problems

Management cybernetics is a old set of ideas. Stafford Beer and thinking about large AI models as a social and cultural technology together give us a…

Apr 20 •

A brief guide to 𝐀𝐈 𝐋𝐨𝐠

What and why I write

Apr 11 •

Boring revolutions and large-elbowed models

Logpodge #7 where I explain why last year's AI may be all you need and ask who benefits when OpenAI and Anthropic pay universities to be their…

Apr 9 •

We need new language for talking about large AI models. Alison Gopnik, Henry Farrell, James Evans, Cosma Shalizi, and Dan Davies provide one.

Apr 6 •

March 2025

What is an LLM doing in my classroom? Part 4: What's Next

This essay is the fourth and final in a series about how I used generative AI in a class I taught in the fall term of 2024.

Mar 29 •

Can the Trump-Musk regime claw back funds already dispersed to universities?

An underappreciated risk to institutions of higher education is that the regime will do to a university what it did to New York City: claw back funds…

Mar 19 •

Writing after the homework apocalypse

ailog.blog reviews "More Than Words" by John Warner

Mar 16 •

OpenAI's NextGenAI press release is horse of a different color

Like the press release last month announcing its partnership with California State University, I see NextGenAI as an act of desperation by OpenAI, a…

Mar 9 •

Here is my advice for higher education executives facing the unprecedented challenges of the coming years: invest in your people first and the…

Mar 2 •

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