Footnotes and Friction
Sune Selsbæk-ReitzMy publication explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping thinking, responsibility, and moral judgment, and why we must design systems that protect human agency rather than replace it.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 19 | Founded | 6 months ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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The Ability to Give Up
Image from OpenAI - “The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead”
On August 26, 2026, OpenAI published its report on the Hugging Face incident. There is plenty in it that sounds dramatic enough on its own. AI agents found zero-day vulnera...
You Only Have to Change One Word
Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI
I have been playing around with Google’s AI Overview feature. There it is, sitting at the top of the search results, giving me what it thinks is the answer. Why should I go to the sources when the machine can...
The Future Is for Everyone. But Who Is Everyone?
Mark Zuckerberg published a long essay this week called The Future Is for Everyone. Much of it is about what he calls personal superintelligence: extraordinarily capable AI systems available to ordinary people rather than concentrated in th...
Machine-Generated Suspicion
Substack has introduced Pangram, an AI detector. We have apparently reached the stage where the answer to machine-generated writing is machine-generated suspicion. I understand the appeal. AI prose is everywhere, and much of it is dull, ano...
The Book Waits Without Watching
Catching crabs by the harbour // Rørvig, Denmark – Photo by me.
I have brought too many books on holiday. This happens every year. I pack as if the family will spend three uninterrupted weeks in monastic silence, pausing only for meals and...
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Tech Philosopher writing about AI, ethics, footnotes, and friction. About fluency, responsibility, and the duty to think. Author of Promptism. Thinking, slowly.
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