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I write essays for AI as Normal Technology, a newsletter with over 78,000 readers, and for other outlets.

Recent essays

• Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't
  Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
  AI as Normal Technology (2026)
• Did Google's AI agents really build an operating system for $916?
  Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan
  AI as Normal Technology (2026)
• Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention?
  Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan
  AI as Normal Technology (2026)
• Open-world evaluations for measuring frontier AI capabilities
  Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan
  AI as Normal Technology (2026)
• New Paper: Towards a science of AI agent reliability
  Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan
  AI as Normal Technology (2026)
• A guide to understanding AI as normal technology
  Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
  AI as Normal Technology (2025)
• Could AI slow science?
  Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan
  AI as Normal Technology (2025)
• AGI is not a milestone
  Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan
  AI as Normal Technology (2025)
• AI as Normal Technology
  Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
  AI as Normal Technology (2025)

Selected writing

• Worry About Misuse of AI, Not Superintelligence
  Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
  WIRED (2024)
• We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation Is Not an AI Problem.
  Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan
  Knight First Amendment Institute (2024)
• Is AI too dangerous to release openly?
  Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan
  Princeton Engineering Magazine (2024)
• A Safe Harbor for AI Evaluation and Red Teaming
  Shayne Longpre, Sayash Kapoor, Kevin Klyman, Ashwin Ramaswami, Rishi Bommasani, Arvind Narayanan, Percy Liang, Peter Henderson
  Knight First Amendment Institute (2024)
• Does AI Pose an Existential Risk to Humanity? Two Sides Square Off
  Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
  The Wall Street Journal (2023)
• How to report better on artificial intelligence
  Sayash Kapoor, Hilke Schellmann, Ari Sen
  Columbia Journalism Review (2023)
• Generative AI companies must publish transparency reports
  Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
  Knight First Amendment Institute (2023)
• A Checklist of Eighteen Pitfalls in AI Journalism
  Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan
  Reporting on artificial intelligence: a handbook for journalism educators, UNESCO (2023)
• The LLaMA is out of the bag. Should we expect a tidal wave of disinformation?
  Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
  Knight First Amendment Institute (2023)
• Through the Wire
  Klaudia Jaźwińska, Sayash Kapoor, Matthew Sun, Mona Wang
  Logic Mag (2022)
• The platform as the city
  Mac Arboleda, Palak Dudani, Sayash Kapoor, Lorna Xu
  ACM Interactions Mag (2021)