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Exploring and venting about quantitative issues
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October 2026
- AI Skeptics: The Consensual Non-Consent Sex Cult Episode (with Sherry Wong and Tom Adams)
- AI Skeptics: The Biden/Trump/Bolsonaro AI Policy Episode (with Clara Langevin)
- Essay: Frontier AI Cannot Be Audited
- AI Skeptics: AI Trifecta: Hacks, Financing, and Lobbying
- Oh look, banks are being hacked by AI
- AI Skeptics: How Schools Procure AI Tools (with J.B. Branch)
September 2026
- AI Skeptics: Government AI Procurement is a Problem (with Jae Kim and Aniket Kesari)
- AI Skeptics: AI Purity Culture in NYC Schools (with Kiri Soares and David Adams)
- AI Kill Switches Won’t Be Enough
- Michael Harris’s Boston Review essay on AI and math is great!
- Essay: AI Threatens the Internet, Not Humanity
- Special AI Skeptics Episode: AI and the End of the World (or the End of the Internet)
- AI Skeptics: Big Tech in Public Schools (with Natasha Singer)
- AI Skeptics: Should I Sell My House? (with Jeff Childers)
- AI Skeptics: AI Narratives (with Sherry Wong)
August 2026
- AI Skeptics: From Mathematics to AI Safety (with Jacob Tsimerman)
- AI Skeptics: Liberal Democracy in the AI Era (with Daron Acemoglu)
- AI Skeptics: The Connecticut AI Law (with James Maroney)
- AI Skeptics: Artists are Canaries in the AI Coalmine (with Becky Jaffe)
July 2026
- AI Skeptics (Casino Journalism) and SuperDataScience
- AI Skeptics: What Young People Think About AI (With Carly Adams)
- AI Skeptics: Hyping AI (with Tom Adams)
- AI Skeptics: Erdos’s Conjecture Was Just the Beginning (with Daniel Litt)
- AI Skeptics: is AI ruining “pro se”? (with Sam Tyner-Monroe)
June 2026
- AI Skeptics: AI and Public Defenders (with D’Adre Cunningham and Sarah Hudson)
- AI Skeptics: Pre AI IPO (with Tom Adams)
- AI Skeptics: The Audit Revolution is Nigh (with Karrie Karaholios)
May 2026
- AI Skeptics: How Utah is Taking AI Seriously (with Zach Boyd)
- AI Skeptics: After the AI Crash (with Asad Ramzanali)
- AI Skeptics: We Are The Egg (with Laura MacCleery)
- AI Skeptics: Aint Nobody Here ‘Cept Us Chickens (with Tom Adams)
April 2026
- AI Skeptics: The Rich People Episode (with Tom Adams)
- AI Skeptics: The Psychedelic Computer Brain (With Andy Smart)
- AI Skeptics: The early internet (with Betty O’Neil)
- AI Skeptics: Section 230 (With Nancy Costello)
- AI Skeptics: Social Media is the New Tobacco (with Tom Adams)
March 2026
- AI Skeptics: Should Judges Use AI? (with Shlomo Klapper)
- AI Skeptics: The Kidd Lab Episode (with Celeste Kidd)
- AI Skeptics: We’re Not Moving to Mars (With Adam Becker)
- AI Skeptics: AI in Philanthropy (with Katy Knight and Sherry Wong)
February 2026
- AI Skeptics: How to Think about Writing in the Age of AI (with John Warner)
- AI Skeptics: Sex Ed for Ed Tech (with Kiri Soares)
- AI Skeptics: The Future of Work (With Kevin Frazier)
- AI Skeptics Podcast: The AI Bubble Episode (with Tom Adams)
January 2026
- AI Skeptics Podcast: All Buzzwords Mean Surveillance (with Sherry Wong)
- AI Skeptics podcast: The Braverman Episode
- New AI Skeptics Podcast: We are all AI Skeptics now (except for our AI Overlords)
- New AI Skeptics Podcast: AI versus Artists and Educators
- New podcast!! AI Skeptics
September 2025
July 2025
June 2025
May 2025
- LLM’s in the VA: it just got dangerous
- Um… how about we don’t cede control to AI?
- South Park is genius
April 2025
August 2024
April 2024
March 2024
- An interview with someone who left Effective Altruism
- Google’s mistake with Gemini
- The AI Fairness Hype is Real
February 2024
- Tampon Tax update
- Abortion rights and paternity tests
- Black box auditing is fine
- Why people hate Wegovy
January 2023
- Fat shaming food columnist in WaPo
- Can we embed dignity into social media?
- ChatGPT: neither wise nor threatening
- US News & World Reports Rankings Rely on Blind Trust
October 2022
March 2022
June 2021
May 2021
November 2020
October 2020
September 2020
August 2020
- School reopening is a disaster. This is deliberate.
- I’m taking Trump seriously
- I was wrong about Florida COVID deaths. But not as wrong as I wish I were.
- Let’s crowdsource CO2 levels
July 2020
- The political uprising we should have expected
- IB’s grading algorithm is a huge mess
- Florida’s death count is gonna hit 600 soon, I predict
- Quantifying Dread
June 2020
- Defunding the Police Will Be Easy (we’ve already done the data work)
- Congress Needs to Act On Facial Recognition
- Let’s Fill in Dangerous Blindspots in Police Data
- Sheryl, honey, if this is you leaning in, please lean out
- Mass Incarceration Causes Pandemics
May 2020
- Students are in a game of chicken with colleges.
- Forget the models, follow the R(t)
- Covid-19 models: none are perfect, some are downright dumb
- Bloomberg column: The FEMA model is a WMD
- Robot Overlords and a Eulogy to the Subway
April 2020
- Two new Bloomberg Posts!!
- New Bloomberg Column: Let’s not make things worse for older people
- New Bloomberg Column: This is Not The Flattened Curve We Were Promised
- New Bloomberg Column: COVID-19 tracking will not work
- New Bloomberg column: 10 Reasons to Doubt the Covid-19 Data
- Diabetics potentially have a LOT to lose by using hydroxychloroquine
- Making facemasks: a step-by-step guide
March 2020
- Comments on COVID-19
- A better proxy than confirmed cases for the US is hospital beds
- Wash your hands *and* your phone
January 2020
August 2019
June 2019
- New Bloomberg Opinion column: China’s AI shows us the future of health insurance
- Shame Versus the Free Market
- Shame is Power
- Group Shame
February 2019
January 2019
November 2018
- Our Dystopian Future and the Next Cold War
- Karaoke is even better in French
- Guest post: How I Voted and Why
- Mathbabe’s Guide to Overtravel
October 2018
- The Truth About Algorithms
- The Era of Plausible Deniability in Big Data Continues
- TomTown Ramblers performing next Saturday, October 13th at The Rockwood!
- Guest post: China’s Social Credit System
September 2018
- New Politics and Philosophy Podcast: The Badlands
- Maybe This Financial System Can’t Be Fixed
- Tech Companies Need To Admit They Have A Problem
August 2018
- Reputation Scores and Free Tampons
- Zuckerberg Is Totally Out Of His Depth
- How America Can Stop Being the Wild West of Data
July 2018
- Financial Times op-ed
- Nerd childhood piece: how I decided to become a mathematician
- Science For The People back in action!
June 2018
- The Failure of Ed Reform
- Everyone Should Hate Google Glasses
- College Admissions Will Never Be Fair
- Facebook should be testing election results
- Guest post: Teaching programming with zines
May 2018
- ORCAA featured in Fast Company!
- Let’s Not Forget How Wrong Our Crime Data Are
- ORCAA featured in MIT Technology Review
- ORCAA was written up in Wired!
- Speaker Series: Mathematics and Democracy
- On NPR
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