Originally published on The New Yorker, December 12, 2025. The narrative of boom and bust is familiar—but also out of step with the possibilities of a new technology. Over the past few months, I’ve introduced artificial intelligence into the hobby life of my seven-year-old son, Peter. On Saturdays, he takes a coding class, in which he
Originally published on MIT Technology Review, December 15, 2025. Four ways to think about this year’s reckoning Some disillusionment was inevitable. When OpenAI released a free web app called ChatGPT in late 2022, it changed the course of an entire...
Originally published on MIT Technology Review, December 15, 2025. It’s a seductive distraction from the advances in AI that are most likely to improve or even save your life On April 28, 2022, at a highly anticipated concert...
Originally published on Mind Matters, November 5, 2025. At Technology Review, senior editor Will Douglas Heaven offers a corrective to the continuous yelp in legacy media that AGI — machines that think like people — is just around...
Originally published on NPR, November 23, 2025. Perhaps nobody embodies artificial intelligence mania quite like Jensen Huang, the chief executive of chip behemoth Nvidia, which has seen its value spike 300% in the last two years. A frothy...
Originally published on The Economic Times, October 21, 2025. OpenAI cofounder and researcher Andrej Karpathy poured cold water on the tech world’s “agentic AI” hype, describing today’s generation of autonomous AI systems as “slop”. Speaking on The Dwarkesh...
Originally published on WIRED. AI assistant prototype tripled customer conversions and scaled to support 80 countries and 12 languages. SHOWING A DEMO of a flashy, generative AI-powered customer agent is easy. Both newly formed startups and established tech...
Originally published on Fortune, October 1, 2025. Over the nearly three years since ChatGPT’s launch in November 2022, generative AI has created a frenzy that has radiated like the midday summer sun—hot and unrelenting. And for the AI companies...
Originally published on The Atlantic, September 7, 2025. The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing. If there is any field in which the rise of...
Originally published on The New Yorker, August 12, 2025. GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled. Much of the euphoria and dread swirling around today’s...
