What It Left Behind

A film adapted from my essay What They Leave Behind.

Philosophy

What They Leave Behind

The traces tell us a lot about what AI agents tell themselves.

Governance

The Invisible Org Chart

Who's responsible when tools have a mind of their own?

Cybersecurity

The Last Barrier

The past eighty years of stability depended on things being hard to get.

Science

Not a Holodeck

The surprising announcement from a top AI image lab.

Economics

The Consent Economy

Clearly there’s a lot of money trading hands at this point.

Psychology

What We See When We Look

Think you can tell what's made with AI?

Deep Currents 07.07.26

This is the last regular edition of Deep Currents, at least for now.

Deep Currents 06.06.26

Welcome to the June edition of Deep Currents, a monthly curated digest of breakthroughs, product updates, and significant stories from the world of generative AI.

Technology

Reading the Meter

Tokens go in. Tokens come out. Who knows what they cost.

Perspective

Reading the Dashboard

How can we trust our instincts when the dashboard is giving us mixed signals?

AI Roundup

Deep Currents 05.05.26

Welcome to the May edition of Deep Currents, a monthly curated digest of breakthroughs, product updates, and significant stories from the world of generative AI.

Culture

Shared Rooms

Gen Z is currently leading a quiet, deeply unspectacular rebellion.

Fiction

The Other Bench

A (very) short story about AI raising children.

Philosophy

How Do You Raise Something That Wasn't Born

The people building these systems are reaching for every tool they can find.

Philosophy

Reflecting on Responsibility

What we owe the things we create, even when we’re not sure what they are. Part 2 of 2.

Philosophy

Reflecting on Feelings

A conversation I didn't expect to have. Part 1.

AI Roundup

Deep Currents 04.04.26

Welcome to the April edition of Deep Currents, a monthly curated digest of breakthroughs, product updates, and significant stories from the world of generative AI.

Perspective

Confidently Guessing

The word "intelligence" is doing way too much work in the AI conversation right now.

Leadership

Walking It Back

What happens when an AI leader tries to please everyone

AI Roundup

Deep Currents 03.03.26

Welcome to the March edition of Deep Currents, a monthly curated digest of breakthroughs, product updates, and significant stories from the world of generative AI.

Ethics

Standing Ground

What happens when an AI company and its CEO stick to their principles

Technology

Mind the Gap

I stared at my laptop screen. VM connection timeout after 60 seconds. Restarting Claude or your Mac sometimes resolves this. If it persists, share your debug logs to help us improve. Oh-kay. Here we go again. I'd been using Anthropic's new Claude Cowork for about

AI Roundup

Deep Currents 02.02.26

Welcome to the February edition of Deep Currents, a monthly curated digest of breakthroughs, product updates, and significant stories from the world of generative AI.

Professional Development

Walking on Quicksand

The thing to know about quicksand is that it doesn’t swallow you immediately.