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How do you "do" books in an age of AI?
We've just dropped the complete text of "AI and the Art of Being Human" (the Pocket Edition) as a free AI Companion, and want to know how you will use…
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Andrew Maynard
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The AI book I actually carry with me
How a flight home from Portugal turned into the just-released coffee-stained pocket edition of AI and the Art of Being Human
Feb 14
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Could AI bots ever learn to “reprogram” their human creators?
Watching Moltbook unfold has put me in a speculative frame of mind ...
Feb 11
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Beeswax Hallucinations and AI Inventions
I thought I was pretty savvy when it comes to navigating AI hallucinations. I was wrong.
Feb 8
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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
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Can modern scholarship escape AI?
I wrote a paper ...
Jan 25
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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