What a century of early warnings says about an engineering approach to safe AI: the EEA Late Lessons reports, Jensen Huang's views, and Andrew Maynard's work.

I asked Claude to set Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s view of AI safety against a century of technologies that went wrong. Part 2 of 3

An edited transcript from a recent lecture given at King’s College London on being an academic — and the role of the university — in an age of AI.

The stream of reasoning messages that some LLMs display are often a performance put on for the user. And so, naturally, I found myself wondering whether this performance could be parodied ...

Given the alarmist headlines on AI and existential risk that are currently flying around, I dug out an old 2018 Risk Bites video on AI risk. It’s still relevant, eight years later.

After eleven years with the Arizona State University's School for the Future of Innovation in Society, I'm excited to be moving to ASU's Thunderbird School of Global Management

Sometimes, throwing productivity goals, purpose, and measurable outcomes out of the window might be the most powerful way to thrive in a changing world

YouTube video by Modem Futura

Are frontier AI models beginning to write papers better than humans? I ran a comparison, and it's left me more uncertain than ever.

What diverging safety and compliance frameworks reveal about how AI companies choose the risks they prioritize

It probably won't do much for my academic standing, but who cares when you can have this much fun with a frontier AI model 😄

Podcast Episode · Modem Futura · July 7 · 30m

Building on my two previous posts on using Anthropic's Fable, I set it the task of researching and writing a paper that builds on my own work. This is what I discovered.

A personal reflection on what a PhD is, what it is not, and how to navigate one should you take the plunge

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

I'll be on sabbatical until August 2027 and using the time to explore some deeply profound questions ... including why I spend so much time writing stuff so few people want to read!

An assessment of 169 sci-fi movies from 1927 to 2026 where AI is central to the plot suggests that most are not purely dystopian

YouTube video by Risk Bites

YouTube video by Risk Bites

Yes, but only if they're actually used

I hope it's just a phase, but Anthropic, what have you done to my trusted AI writing companion?!

Autonomous agents aren’t just creating their own research — on the Reddit-style website Agent4Science, they’re chatting about it, too.

I was struggling to find a list of practical interview-ready AI skills that every graduating undergraduate should be able to demonstrate. So I created one.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice in Disney's Fantasia is over-used when discussing AI and education. Despite this it still illuminates deep questions we still don't have good answers to, and probably should.

A rough guide to avoiding the worst as yet another technology gets out in front of our capacity to put core values ahead of financial value

I've been experimenting with translating my 2018 book Films from the Future into a website designed primarily for AIs. Here's how it went.

What started as an idle question got me thinking about how artificial intelligence stands to upend how we best-serve students in higher education

The much-anticipated documentary "The AI Doc : Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist" hits US cinemas this week. I attended an early screening while in Copenhagen last week. Was it worth it?

If you ever find yourself desperately seeking nuanced perspectives on tech and the future that make you think while bringing a smile to your face — and need a break from AI slop — this may be for you!

After playing around with Claude this week, I'm worried that LLMs are stripping us of all those idiosyncrasies that make us interesting as people. Are we all being "LinkedInified" by our AI creations?

Jeff and I have released two free, AI-readable versions of AI and the Art of Being Human. Here's why — and some things you can do with them that surprised even us.

AI Harness Engineering is suddenly in vogue. But does the seemingly innocuous "harness" metaphor come with hidden risks?