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Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients?
Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
Nov 11
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Arvind Narayanan
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Sayash Kapoor
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Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients?
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October 2024
FAQ about the book and our writing process
What's in the book and how we wrote it
Oct 4
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Arvind Narayanan
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Sayash Kapoor
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September 2024
Can AI automate computational reproducibility?
A new benchmark to measure the impact of AI on improving science
Sep 18
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Sayash Kapoor
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Arvind Narayanan
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Starting reading the AI Snake Oil book online
The book will be published on September 24
Sep 10
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Arvind Narayanan
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Sayash Kapoor
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August 2024
AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good.
Turning models into products runs into five challenges
Aug 19
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Arvind Narayanan
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Sayash Kapoor
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AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good.
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July 2024
AI existential risk probabilities are too unreliable to inform policy
How speculation gets laundered through pseudo-quantification
Jul 26
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Arvind Narayanan
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Sayash Kapoor
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New paper: AI agents that matter
Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
Jul 3
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Sayash Kapoor
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Arvind Narayanan
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June 2024
AI scaling myths
Scaling will run out. The question is when.
Jun 27
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Sayash Kapoor
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Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
Jun 3
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Arvind Narayanan
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Sayash Kapoor
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April 2024
AI leaderboards are no longer useful. It's time to switch to Pareto curves.
What spending $2,000 can tell us about evaluating AI agents
Apr 30
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Sayash Kapoor
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Arvind Narayanan
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AI leaderboards are no longer useful. It's time to switch to Pareto curves.
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AI Snake Oil is now available to preorder
What artificial intelligence can do, what it can't, and how to tell the difference
Apr 10
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Arvind Narayanan
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Sayash Kapoor
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AI Snake Oil is now available to preorder
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Tech policy is only frustrating 90% of the time
That’s what makes it worthwhile
Apr 3
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Arvind Narayanan
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Sayash Kapoor
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