AI as Normal Technology newsletter by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor: latest issues, cadence and price

by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor · Substack · Free · monthly · last issue Sep 14, 2026 · Active

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20 on file since Sep 18, 2024

20 of 20 issues

Date	Issue	Topic	When
Sep 14	The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents Sep 14 · AI and agents	AI and agents	10d ago
Aug 5	AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research Aug 5 · AI and agents	AI and agents	7w ago
Jul 13	What will be left for us to work on? Jul 13 · Policy and society	Policy and society	2mo ago
Jul 9	Up the Stack: How AI’s Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in Jul 9 · AI and agents	AI and agents	3mo ago
Jun 11	Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t Jun 11 · AI and agents	AI and agents	3mo ago
May 22	Did Google’s AI agents really build an operating system for $916? May 22 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4mo ago
May 21	Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention? May 21 · AI and agents	AI and agents	4mo ago
Apr 16	Open-world evaluations for measuring frontier AI capabilities Apr 16 · AI and agents	AI and agents	5mo ago
Feb 24	New Paper: Towards a science of AI agent reliability Feb 24 · AI and agents	AI and agents	7mo ago
Feb 12	AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper Feb 12 · AI and agents	AI and agents	7mo ago
Jan 29	Fact checking Moravec's paradox Jan 29 · Policy and society	Policy and society	8mo ago
Sep 9, 2025	A guide to understanding AI as normal technology Sep 9, 2025 · AI and agents	AI and agents	12mo ago
Jul 16, 2025	Could AI slow science? Jul 16, 2025 · AI and agents	AI and agents	14mo ago
May 1, 2025	AGI is not a milestone May 1, 2025 · Policy and society	Policy and society	17mo ago
Apr 15, 2025	AI as Normal Technology Apr 15, 2025 · AI and agents	AI and agents	17mo ago
Dec 18, 2024	Is AI progress slowing down? Dec 18, 2024 · AI and agents	AI and agents	21mo ago
Dec 13, 2024	We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem Dec 13, 2024 · Policy and society	Policy and society	21mo ago
Nov 11, 2024	Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients? Nov 11, 2024 · Policy and society	Policy and society	22mo ago
Oct 4, 2024	FAQ about the book and our writing process Oct 4, 2024 · Policy and society	Policy and society	24mo ago
Sep 18, 2024	Can AI automate computational reproducibility? Sep 18, 2024 · AI and agents	AI and agents	2y ago

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