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June 2025

May 2025

Stop Building Internal Chatbots
With AI products improving rapidly and employees using them in secret, companies that build instead of buy risk slowing teams and increasing risks
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Simon Smith
ChatGPT 2026
Sam Altman's vision is clear: A personalized, pervasive, proactive superintelligence that acts as your life's operating system
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Simon Smith
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From General Intelligence to Personal Intelligence
Memory turns good AI into great AI but also raises the stakes, so learn how to use it before it uses you
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Simon Smith
Better Ways to Benchmark AI Today
A practical guide for when leaderboards don’t tell the full story
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Simon Smith

April 2025

Be Careful What You Wish For
How optimizing AI models for human preference backfired
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Simon Smith
The End of the Centaur Era
How The Intelligence Curse changed my mind about the future of work—someone using AI may take your job, but AI may take theirs, and undemocratic…
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Simon Smith
Why Gen Z’s ChatGPT Boycott Backfires
Virtue signaling over AI is sabotaging students academically and professionally
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Simon Smith
I Work in AI. Here’s How I’m Preparing My Kids for the Future.
Instead of banning them in schools, let's use ChatGPT and similar transformative tools to empower children
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Simon Smith
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