AI Affairs
A quarterly review of artificial intelligence and the questions it forces.
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The grid was the policy
The country wrote an industrial policy for compute. What it bought was a queue.
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All issues →Vol. 1, Issue 1 · Spring 2026
The Inaugural Issue
An introduction to the publication's editorial position, and the four pieces that announce it.
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The grid was the policy
The country wrote an industrial policy for compute. What it bought was a queue.
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The disappearing middle of writing
What AI is doing to the texture of professional prose.
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On the embarrassment of expertise
AI did not replace the professions. It separated what they were paid to do from what they were paid to know.
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