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Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described himself as an AI skeptic who became converted ... Read more The post On AI Coding and Its Discontents appeared first on Cal Newport .
A couple of weeks ago, the AI company Hugging Face announced that they had discovered an intrusion into their production infrastructure. They didn’t know the ... Read more The post Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”? appeared first on Cal Newport .
Last week, Rose Horowitch published a splashy Atlantic article titled “The End of Reading is Here.” (Ironically, given the subject matter, it weighed in at ... Read more The post Why Reading Matters appeared first on Cal Newport .
Few recent technological innovations were better poised to become a productivity slam dunk than the personal computer. Spreadsheets, word processors, databases, presentation software, email – ... Read more The post Beware of Productivity Paradoxes appeared first on Cal Newport .
Imagine, for a moment, the following scenario. The Ford Motor Company releases a slick whitepaper making the alarming claim that they’re concerned their popular F-150 ... Read more The post Dear AI Companies: Stop the “Doom Trolling” appeared first on Cal Newport .
The Financial Times recently reported an interview with Rebecca Hinds, head of the Work AI Institute. Hinds was discussing a new survey of 6,000 digital ... Read more The post AI Isn’t Breaking Work. It’s Already Broken. appeared first on Cal Newport .
The leaders of AI companies often compare their technology to industrial automation: just as machines eliminated jobs that depended on human brawn, AI will eliminate ... Read more The post Why Isn’t AI Taking Our Jobs? appeared first on Cal Newport .
Last fall, the Notre Dame philosopher, Meghan Sullivan, participated in a closed-door meeting at the Vatican. She was there to discuss AI ethics with a ... Read more The post The Pope vs. Silicon Valley appeared first on Cal Newport .