The Extra Mile

Race against the Machine

I’d said in my last email that I didn’t plan on sending you anything today. I ran the NYC Half yesterday and presumed that I’d be too anxious on Saturday and too tired on Sunday to write anything. Think of this as either a bonus email or

AI as School Monitor and Measurement

On Saturday night, ICE agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate and prominent pro-Palestine campus activist still living in campus housing with his 8-month-pregnant wife, a US citizen. Initially, Khalil, who was born in Syria, was told his student visa was being revoked; when agents were told he

Agents versus Agency

There's an argument I make in Teaching Machines that I'd like to repeat here – a setup to this first of many essays in which I work through some ideas about AI, agents, and agency: In 1971 the psychologist B. F. Skinner published his most controversial book,

Influencers and Expertise

"It's Bad." It's very very bad. And each week, when I gather up the education and AI-related news here, I keep wishing I could say we've reached the peak of this mountain of horrors and that things will get easier, things will