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Top 5 Essays from 2023

🦾 Effective accelerationists; Biden AI EO & Openness; and what makes a question “good”?

🗞️ TikTokers are in trouble; ChatGPT isn’t creative; Inventors are biased.

🗞️ GPT-4 failed the Turing Test; Algorithmic reparations; and the 'Church of Artificial Intelligence'

🧠 ‘AI Alignment’ isn’t a problem — it’s a myth.

🗞️AI is still a stochastic parrot, trust & safety is being outsourced, and autonomous vehicles aren't autonomous.

📖 AI Reading List

🎉 Untangled turns two years old!

The problem with Elon Musk’s ‘first principles thinking’

📰 Meta hired Hollywood actors, Anthropic experimented w/AI governance, and ChatGPT has different definitions of justice for Israelis and Palestinians.

🔮 A newsletter from the future

Untangled surpassed 5,000 subscribers

🤖 Whose 'AI'?

Building alternative AI futures

Elise Hu on pretty privilege, appearance labor, and worthiness.

🖼️ The Primer

The artificial gaze

AI Untangled

Crypto is (still) not decentralized.

It's my birthday!

The Doom Loop of Synthetic Data

Stop comparing yourself to AI

🙏 I need your help with an essay on ‘the artificial gaze.’

💼 Why 'Will AI take your job?' is the wrong question.

🧠 Does generative AI have ‘emergent’ properties?

🎉 Untangled reached 4K subscribers.

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🙄 You’re about to become a content moderator.

How the Netflix show 'Ultimatum' explains complex algorithmic systems.

🤖 AI isn’t ‘hallucinating.’ We are.

🥸 Is “AI” actually McKinsey & Co in disguise?

ℹ️ What even is ‘information’?

🔓Behind the scenes of Untangled.

🤯 Technically Social

📰 A critique of tech-criticism (2/2)

🚫 A critique of tech-criticism (1/2)

✋ Stop, Primer Time!

⚖️ How can we govern speech fairly on anti-democratic platforms?

✔️ The Checklist

✔️ An Untangled checklist

🤔 Do algorithmic decision-making systems even work?

Bigger isn't better; it's harmful.

Launching the Facilitation Leadership Lab

The illusion of ChatGPT

🙈 TikTok & the production of ignorance

📻 What’s really happening when an algorithm makes a mistake.

🤖 Will ChatGPT replace search?

🎱 Can you predict the future?

Problems are made, not found.

💸 Untangled is going paid!

Beyond ‘minimizing harms’