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Books & Articles
- One Useful Thing: Ethan Mollick’s series of very good articles, on Substack
- Co-Intelligence. Ethan Mollick book on our relationship with AI.
- The Alignment Problem. Great book on challenges with AI (bias, incorrect goals, etc)
- Will the Humanities Survive AI?. New Yorker article (might be behind paywall). For example “But to be human is not to have answers. It is to have questions—and to live with them. The machines can’t do that for us. Not now, not ever.”
- Situational Awareness. Series of articles on what could happen with AI, over the next few years. Good reading if you want bad sleeping.
- I’m a Therapist. ChatGPT Is Eerily Effective. New York Times essay (might be behind paywall) by a very experienced therapist about his experience using ChatGPT.
Policies
A few organizations have published their guidelines for AI usage, which can be a useful starting point for creating your own policy.
- The Responsible AI Manifesto. A blog post by The Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute. The “Our Responsible AI Principles” section lists 12 principles, including the one that I emphasize in training: “We believe that humans remain accountable for all decisions and actions, even when assisted by AI. The human must remain in the loop in all AI applications.”
- Fast Forward’s AI Policy. This is a pretty good starting point.
- California Courts Model Policy. The basic requirements for every California court’s AI policy (which can be different, court-by-court). A court can prohibit AI, but if they allow it then their policy must cover (a) not uploading confidential information, (b) prohibiting the use of AI to discriminate, (c) require court personnel to take reasonable efforts to verify AI output and correct mistakes, (d) require court personnel to take reasonable efforts to remove biased AI output, (e) label all output that is entirely generated by AI as being such, and (f) comply with all applicable laws and policies relating to AI.
In addition, a local supporter (Gretchen Bond) sent me this text, which she attached to a board report she’d worked on using AI. I think it’s a great example of being clear about how AI was used, and also owning responsibility for the final product:
In the spirit of transparency, portions of this report were refined with the help of AI tools to enhance clarity and structure. The insights and recommendations remain my own and reflect my review, guidance, and professional judgment.
AI Skeptics
This is a collection of links to content where the point-of-view is strongly opposed to AI. I find that reading these is helpful in assessing the pros and cons of this amazing and scary new technology.
- Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At
- Cassie Willson’s Facebook Rant (turn on sound by clicking tiny speaker icon at top of video)
- MIT Tech Review’s article: We did the math on AI’s energy usage. Normally I really like what Tech Review publishes, but this article was verging on journalistic innumeracy.
- Your Brain on ChatGPT. Published results of a study analyzing the impact of relying too much on ChatGPT to think for you.
- AI: What Could Go Wrong?. Jon Stewart interviews Geoffrey Hinton, aka the “Godfather of AI”. They talk about how AI actually works, in a very approachable way, and then dive into potential threats posed by AI.
Fun Stuff
A few things for your entertainment…
- PromptLibs. A web page created by my friend Matt Strain, where you can build a prompt by picking options from lists. Wait, isn’t he in marketing? How did he create an interactive web page? Vibe coding (via Lovable) for the win!
- When you use ChatGPT for everything. A humorous take on people becoming overly dependent on AI.