Understanding AI
Timothy B. Lee, James Grimmelmann, Steve Newman, Abi Olvera, Charlie Guo, Justin Curl, Daniel Abreu Marques, Florian Brand, Sophia Tung, Derek Thompson, Kai Williams, Sage BergersonExploring how AI works and how it's changing our world.
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I write the newsletter Understanding AI. Previously I was a reporter at Ars Technica, Vox, and the Washington Post. twitter.com/binarybits
Professor at Cornell Law School and Cornell Tech.
Co-founder of Writely (aka Google Docs) and 7 other startups. Now at the Golden Gate Institute for AI, working to bring AI’s toughest questions into focus.
Optimistic takes on why things cost so much, why institutions make mistakes, and what AI is actually changing. Ex-diplomat. I lead DC Abundance. Golden Gate Institute Research Director. Emergent Ventures grantee. Views my own.
Writing at the intersection of software engineering and AI. Developer Experience Engineer at OpenAI. All opinions are my own.
AI researcher turned law student. Harvard Law JD | Schwarzman Scholar | Princeton CS.
I'm Daniel, and I work in strategy and market intelligence for autonomous driving. As a student of the market, I analyze market developments, monitor players, and try to connect the dots.
PhD Student, Trier University | https://florianbrand.de/ | Opinions my own.
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I'm a reporter at Understanding AI, supported through the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. Previously, I did AI safety research through the MATS program. I graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in math and music.
Freelance writer in San Francisco.
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