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Arvind Narayanan

@random_walker
Princeton CS prof and Director @PrincetonCITP. Coauthor of "AI Snake Oil" and "AI as Normal Technology". normaltech.ai Views mine.
Princeton, NJ
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    Aug 27
    This week I had the honor of speaking to Princeton’s entire incoming undergraduate class to address their AI anxieties. I had three messages for them — good news, bad news, and a note of optimism. Here’s a condensed version. The good news We have enough evidence now to conclude
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    Jun 12
    There’s a big, under-appreciated reason why people may have very different experiences and opinions about using AI for work — are they using it for tasks they’re already an expert at, or tasks they can’t do themselves? The former leads to a *growth cycle* and the latter leads to
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    Sep 3
    Meta released a new model with pricing that was unusually explicit about how valuable it is for AI companies to use your data — about a 95% discount! We also have good evidence of how strongly enterprises _don’t_ want AI companies to use their data: they stick with token-billed
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    Arvind Narayanan
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    Sep 2
    There is a lot to say from an AI-as-normal-technology perspective about the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident and what lessons we should learn from it — some obvious points that need to be said anyway, and some non-obvious ones. Essay by @sayashk and me coming soon!
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    Sep 1
    This was a great article and I learned a lot from it. But while there's a lot of writing on robotics timelines, I've seen less on what happens once competent robots do inevitably arrive. US agriculture employment share dropped 50x because of mechanization. This is very different
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    Timothy B. Lee
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    Sep 1
    Robots can dance, do backflips, and run faster than Usain Bolt. This makes a lot of people worry about mass unemployment. But @chi_t_williams wrote an amazing article explaining why it'll take years — possibly decades — for robots to match humans. understandingai.org/p/why-humanoid…
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    Arvind Narayanan
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    Aug 31
    You’re too kind. 🙏 I don’t know how much value there is in ideas without execution but I’m happy to give it a go! Here’s one — and it’s quite meta, because it’s about what breaks when AI slop makes certain things too cheap. If anyone would like to build on this, I’d be happy to
    AI slop wastes people’s time, but it also has deeper structural effects. Many institutions relied on processes with some friction as a form of natural spam protection, but AI has now eliminated those costs. Submitting a paper for peer review, applying for a job, filing a legal complaint, and dozens of other processes can now be automated, which threatens to overwhelm systems and organizations.

The thesis of this project is that many institutions face strikingly similar threats due to slop and can learn defensive strategies from each other.
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    Abi Olvera
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    Aug 31
    Replying to @random_walker
    You have tons of fans (myself included) who would love to execute some of your validated ideas if you ever wanted to make those public!
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