Beeswax Hallucinations and AI Inventions

I thought I was pretty savvy when it comes to navigating AI hallucinations. I was wrong.

15 hrs ago • Andrew Maynard

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January 2026

Lost in the Moltbook Hall of Mirrors

A new "Social Network for AI Agents" is breaking the internet. And things are getting weird ...

Jan 31 • Andrew Maynard

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Can modern scholarship escape AI?

I wrote a paper ...

Jan 25 • Andrew Maynard

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Think you know AI? Think again!

Anthropic's new AI Constitution profoundly challenges how we think about, develop, and use artificial intelligence, while also opening up potentially…

Jan 22 • Andrew Maynard

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I cracked and wrote an academic paper using AI. Here's what I learned ...

I deeply dislike AI-generated academic slop. But I'm curious about how AI can genuinely accelerate legitimate research. So I took the plunge ...

Jan 17 • Andrew Maynard

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Is AI a Cognitive Trojan Horse?

Could on-demand, seductively responsive and highly fluent AI models bypass our "epistemic vigilance" mechanisms, and present a novel cognitive risk?

Jan 10 • Andrew Maynard

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Five voices worth reading in 2026

As I did last year, I thought I'd highlight five writers I enjoy reading, along with a recent post from each that grabbed my attention.

Jan 1 • Andrew Maynard

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December 2025

Are we living in a foveated reality?

Video games trick players by only rendering in high detail what's being observed. So do spatial computing headsets. Even our eyes and brain do it. Maybe…

Dec 21, 2025 • Andrew Maynard

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Revisiting custom GPTs — the good, the bad, and the ... interesting!

It's been a minute but I thought it time to take a fresh look at OpenAI's custom GPT feature. I found myself both frustrated and surprised!

Dec 14, 2025 • Andrew Maynard

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Do universities have a future in Trump's plans to accelerate scientific discovery through the use of AI?

The recently announced Genesis Mission sets out to transform how science is done in the US. Yet it's a mission that places national labs—and not…

Dec 7, 2025 • Andrew Maynard

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November 2025

Postscript: Letters from the Department of Intellectual Craft

Plausible AI trajectories and their potential implications to academia: a closing reflection on Letters from the Department of Intellectual Craft

Nov 30, 2025 • Andrew Maynard

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Part 3 of Letters from the Department of Intellectual Craft

Part 3 of a three-part serialization of the short story “Letters from the Department of Intellectual Craft”

Nov 26, 2025 • Andrew Maynard

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