AI

Why Legal Risk Might Make AI Agents Less Useful Than Their Technical Capabilities Suggest

The same gray-area actions that humans do without thinking—like emailing researchers for paywalled papers—become legal risks when AI agents do them.

Aug 6 •

AI Researchers Should Study Real-World Barriers, Not Just Capabilities

We need more attention on "societal frictions," the bureaucratic, physical, and institutional barriers shaping AI diffusion, not just AI capabilities.

Jul 31 •

How Developer Preferences Are Creating an Unexpected AI Safety Layer - And the Research Community Might be Missing It

Developers prefer APIs over agents with browser access because they're easier to work with—but APIs also happen to create natural safety constraints.

Jul 26 •

An AI Policy Expert Told Us That Non-Programmers Shouldn't Work on AI. Here's Why He's Wrong

Technical skill helps in AI discussions, but some of the most important questions about AI deployment are the kind of complex social problems that…

Jul 20 •

Why the AI Safety Community Needs State Capacity and Democracy Reformers

The unsexy work of fixing democracy, rebuilding public trust, and improving government capacity might be a neglected foundation that makes other AI…

Jul 13 •

Four Reasons I Care About Abundance as an AI and Global Risks Researcher

Abundance matters because civilizations need state capacity to handle existential risks—and bureaucratic complexity is slowly destroying our ability to…

Jul 9 •

What Misinformation Research Taught Me About AI Safety Discourse

Misinformation research shows how important fields can drift toward hype over evidence. AI safety is showing early signs of the same pattern—but…

Jun 27 •

How to Argue Better About AI: Lessons from the Safety-Ethics Divide

Whether you work on existential risk, safety, or other AI concerns, practical advice for engaging productively across AI's most contentious debates.

Jun 24 •

What that viral AI persuasion study actually measured (and didn't)

After digging into persuasion research for months, I see problems with how people are interpreting AI-persuasion findings. And it matters for how we…

Jun 20 •

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