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Is AI progress slowing down?

Making sense of recent technology trends and claims

Dec 18, 2024 • Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor

We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem.

Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.

Dec 13, 2024 • Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan

Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients?

Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects

Nov 11, 2024 • Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor

FAQ about the book and our writing process

What's in the book and how we wrote it

Oct 4, 2024 • Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor

Can AI automate computational reproducibility?

A new benchmark to measure the impact of AI on improving science

Sep 18, 2024 • Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan

AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good.

Turning models into products runs into five challenges

Aug 19, 2024 • Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor

AI existential risk probabilities are too unreliable to inform policy

How speculation gets laundered through pseudo-quantification

Jul 26, 2024 • Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor