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Enjoy a tour of my favorites from the Untangled archives
🧶 Deep Dives
Deep Dives help you interrogate how key tech issues are entangled in complex social systems like race, gender, and power.
AI isn’t ‘hallucinating.’ We are. Why 'hallucination' is a problematic term (hint - it's not just because it anthropomorphizes the technology!) and what to do about it. (More)
Transcend your meat prison - Come, human. Ensconce yourself in the fine swaddling robes of rational perfectionism. (More)
Trapped buy the Pursuit of Efficiency. When tech is the end goal, we lose sight of everything that truly matters. (More)
‘AI Alignment’ isn’t a problem — it’s a myth. Come with me on a journey through ordered and unordered systems. (More)
An AI model will take your place when you die……and it will misrepresent your personality to your friends and family. Enjoy! (More)
⚒️ Guides
Guides help you untangle your system, and teach you the strategies and skills to change it.
How to define your system (More)
How to see technology as socially constructed (More)
How to anticipate technology’s impact on different communities (More)
How to anticipate technological shifts in power (More)
How to see your system clearly (More)
🎧 Podcasts
I host expert conversations, and help you make sense of the most important tech issues of the day. Sign up for the podcast (Apple & Spotify).
Is tech a religion? Is Elon Musk a hungry ghost? My conversation with Greg Epstein, author of the new book Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation. (More)
Can we democratize AI? My conversation with Divya Siddarth, Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Collective Intelligence Project (More)
Is AI snake oil? My conversation with Princeton Professor Arvind Narayanan (More)
A world overrun by AI agents. My conversation with Evan Ratliff, the host of the fascinating and funny new podcast, Shell Game. (More)
AI is a mirror. What can it show us? My conversation with Shannon Vallor, Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (More)