I don’t talk about AI much in Platformocracy. A recent email to my father does a good job of laying out my priors and biases. [tl;dr: self-regulation is weak sauce]

I don’t talk about AI much in Platformocracy. A recent email to my father does a good job of laying out my priors and biases. [tl;dr: self-regulation is weak sauce]

This is a pivotal moment in human history. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a system that exhibits all the cognitive capabilities the brain has, is probably only a few short years away.

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

Learn about the history of building codes in the U.S., from the formation of organizations to the establishment of the ICC and the I-Codes.

Silicon Valley’s strange new theology.

ALT: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Shaking

ALT: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Shaking

A Boston College professor calls out the moral panic over social media and the EU’s big age-restriction proposal rolls out. Plus excerpts from my other op-ed with Mariana Rosenblat.

A unique book about ancient Athens got me thinking about why billionaires are trying to destroy the global Internet culture that made them rich.

At Google, we have long believed in the power of technology to expand access to education and create new learning opportunities. To ensure that every child, regardless o…

Wrapping up my second summer field trip, is size destiny when it comes to corporate culture? A tour through my own career, from startups to a 200,000-person leviathan. Is Gemini a Google rebirth, or i...

Wrapping up my second summer field trip, is size destiny when it comes to corporate culture? A tour through my own career, from startups to a 200,000-person leviathan. Is Gemini a Google rebirth, or i...

Apply for a Accessibility Engineer (Web Accessibility SME) job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.

The Meta settlement requires limited oversight of Instagram and Facebook for just five years. Making it permanent, independent, and industry-wide requires a law.

The Meta settlement requires limited oversight of Instagram and Facebook for just five years. Making it permanent, independent, and industry-wide requires a law.

My summer field trip into Google corporate culture continues with a memoir of twenty years of strategic planning success and debacle.