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Andrew McAfeeWonder how some companies are able to do it all? So do I.
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This Week in Putting AI to Work (May 15, 2026)
There’s Good News
~~All~~ most AI alignment research so far has a pronounced negative framing: How can we keep AI from doing all these bad things? A large team recently put out a paper that reframes the issue as one of “positive alignme...
This Week in Putting AI to Work (5/8/26)
Tension #1: Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Transformation
At Stripe’s recent annual conference, co-founder Patrick Collison described the extent of AI enablement of the work being done as part of the Tempo project - an effort to build a blockcha...
This Week in "Putting AI to Work" (4.23.26)
Principal and Agents
The Wall Street Journal has an article about investment giant Blackrock’s work to build infrastructure that will let its people deploy agents. The goal, of course, is to make these agents simultaneously powerful, st...
This Week in "Putting AI to Work" (4/18/26)
Getting Better All the Time
Cursor just released the results of research conducted with economist Suproteem Sarkar. They investigated what happened to AI usage patterns as LLMs improved. The findings are about what you’d expect, which d...
This Week in "Putting AI to Work" (4/10/26)
Who’s Using AI, and Is That AI Making a Difference?
Two new pieces of research here. First is a report on U.S. versus European AI use. As the graph above shows, this topic is important. European productivity growth has lagged badly in t...
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