# Research Briefs ---- ## Overview | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | | **[[#Flagship brief my perspective on the AI landscape\|Flagship]]** | **My perspective on the AI landscape** | | **[[#Clarity briefs key concepts and terms explained\|Clarity]]** | **Key concepts and terms explained** | | **[[#Analysis briefs evidence dissected and interpreted\|Analysis]]** | **Evidence dissected and interpreted** | | **[[#Action briefs what to do, why, and how\|Action]]** | **What to do, why, and how** | | **[[#Spark briefs food for thought, some of it surprising\|Sparks]]** | **Food for thought, some of it surprising** | | **[[#Conjecture briefs grounded speculations\|Conjectures]]** | **Grounded speculations** | | **[[#Source briefs external material other briefs refer to\|Sources]]** | **External material other briefs refer to** | ### Forthcoming briefs To hear about new research when it goes live, see [[Subscribe|Research > Subscribe]]. --- ## Flagship brief: my perspective on the AI landscape > **[[Industry and Society Need AI Clarity]]** > **The way forward from today’s divided and confused AI landscape** --- ## Clarity briefs: key concepts and terms explained > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|LLMs Demystified (forthcoming)]] > What they are and how they’re built and used, in non-technical terms > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|Agentic AI Demystified (forthcoming)]] > What’s new about AI agents — and what’s recycled > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|MechInterp Demystified (forthcoming)]] > What mechanistic interpretability is, why it matters, and how it’s done --- ## Analysis briefs: evidence dissected and interpreted > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|The State of Enterprise AI (forthcoming)]] > What differentiates organizations getting ROI from AI today > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|World Knowledge (forthcoming)]] > LLMs contain some knowledge of the physical world — but need much more > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|The UX of AI (forthcoming)]] > What’s different about designing AI-powered experiences > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|Self-Evaluations Are Suspect (forthcoming)]] > Competency self-assessments — including about AI — are unreliable --- ## Action briefs: what to do, why, and how > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|AI Literacy Strategy (forthcoming)]] > How to decide what’s essential to know about AI — and learn it > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|AI Application Strategy (forthcoming)]] > How to decide what tasks to use AI for — profitably and responsibly > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|Manage AI Agents Like People (forthcoming)]] > Many best practices in people management apply well to AI agents --- ## Spark briefs: food for thought, some of it surprising > **[[From Shakespeare to AI]]** > **How LLMs’ inner workings are rooted in comparative literature** > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|The Autocomplete Fallacy (forthcoming)]] > Why predicting what comes next is more powerful than it seems it should be > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|Neural Networks Aren’t Opaque (forthcoming)]] > The way they work is well understood — scale is what can make them unfathomable > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|Hallucination Is Forever (forthcoming)]] > Inaccurate statements from language models can be contained but never prevented > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|AI Isn’t Biased (forthcoming)]] > Bias is caused by our choices of training data — it’s not in AI algorithms > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|When Your Mind Autocompletes (forthcoming)]] > Essentials of large language models explained with a thought experiment --- ## Conjecture briefs: grounded speculations > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|Animal AI (forthcoming)]] > When a machine emulates the cognition of an octopus > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|When AI-Free Means Luxury (forthcoming)]] > Some “human-made” work will become more valuable once AI is everywhere > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|What AI Thinks (forthcoming)]] > When a functionalist stance is better than an essentialist one > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|The Fate of Work (forthcoming)]] > What people will do with their time if AGI obviates the need for human work --- ## Source briefs: external material other briefs refer to > **[[The Polarized Predictions About AI]]** > **Influential viewpoints range from utopian to dystopian** > **[[LLMs Don't Run on Facts or Logic]]** > **Leading AI researchers explain the limitations of large language models** > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|The Many Definitions of AI (forthcoming)]] > There’s Widespread Disagreement About What “AI” Means > [[Briefs#Forthcoming briefs|The Many Definitions of AI Agents (forthcoming)]] > There’s Widespread Disagreement About What “AI Agent” Means --- ## Suggestions? If you’d like to suggest an AI-related question, topic, or tension you think deserves a research brief, [[Contact|reach out]]. ## About my research Learn more about: - My research [[Methods|methods]] - The [[Scope|scope]] of my research - [[Research/Sharing|Sharing]] (or otherwise reusing) my research - How I use — and don’t use — [[Tools|AI as a tool]] in my research process ----