Substacks recommended by Understanding AI

Recommended by Understanding AI

Silver Bulletin

By Nate Silver

Essays and analysis about elections, media, sports, poker, and all the other things I care about.

Legendary data journalist Nate Silver covers politics, the future of media, and more.

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Apricitas Economics

By Joseph Politano

Data-driven Insights on Economics, Business, Finance, and Public Policy.

If you want a deep, data-driven understanding of the economy, you need to be reading this newsletter.

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Interconnects

By Nathan Lambert

The cutting edge of AI, from inside the frontier AI labs, minus the hype. The border between high-level and technical thinking. Read by leading engineers, researchers, and investors.

Insightful and accessible commentary from a guy whose day job is actually training AI models.

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The Argument

By Jerusalem Demsas

Join Us. We're Libbing Out.

Jerusalem Demsas leads a team of writers making the case for pro-abundance liberalism.

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Exponential View

By Azeem Azhar

"One of the best for understanding how tech can solve our biggest problems and shape our society." — Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify

In-depth analysis of AI and the economy by Azeem Azhar.

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AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans

By Melanie Mitchell

I write about interesting new developments in AI.

Deep insights into why and how AI systems work (and don't work) from a prominent computer scientist.

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Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

Noah provides deeply insightful economic commentary on a wide range of topics, from renewable energy to the rise of Chian.

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Derek Thompson

A newsletter about abundance and building a better world.

Derek writes brilliantly about the economy and is co-author of the best-selling book Abundance. I've been reading his work avidly for 15 years.

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The AV Market Strategist

By Daniel Abreu Marques

The AV Market Strategist breaks down strategic developments, market dynamics, and competitive moves in the autonomous vehicle industry to reveal where the market is truly heading.

Excellent, in-depth analysis of news in the autonomous vehicle market.

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Slow Boring

By Matthew Yglesias

Start your day with pragmatic takes on politics and public policy.

Matt has been my favorite blogger for nearly 20 years now and his work has shaped my thinking on a number of policy issues. His newsletter, Slow Boring, has a high signal-to-noise ratio.

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AI as Normal Technology

By Arvind and Sayash

Analyzing AI as transformative but normal technology, not superintelligence.

Two Princeton Computer scientists cut through the hype to help readers understand what's really going on in the AI world.

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