My Latest Review in The Los Angeles Review of Books

Bender & Hanna’s The AI Con + Why I Still Write Reviews

Oct 31 • 

Erik J Larson

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Stuck On a Hill

An early reflection on the limits of induction and generalization in machine learning.

Oct 24 • 

Erik J Larson

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Coming to a Town Near You: Singularitarians, Transhumanists, and Smart Robots

Proof that the hype cycle has been on repeat for more than a decade.

Oct 24 • 

Erik J Larson

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The Ghost Above My Desk

Intelligence is not what we say today.

Oct 6 • 

Erik J Larson

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September 2025

Riding the Hype Wave

Notes on Mustafa Suleyman’s The Coming Wave and the Illusion of Inevitability

Sep 29 • 

Erik J Larson

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The Contradiction at the Heart of Sam Harris’s Philosophy

He built a career on rational conversation and moral clarity. Until it no longer served his goals.

Sep 3 • 

Erik J Larson

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August 2025

What Are You Gonna Do Without Me? (A True Story)

How Silicon Valley Keeps Re-Creating Bad Human Relationships for Us

Aug 16 • 

Erik J Larson

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Artificial Intelligence Is Still Just Automation

Ten years later, a look at the argument against AGI

Aug 10 • 

Erik J Larson

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Building Knowledge Clusters: Toward Grounded AI

Designing Hybrid Systems That Check What AI Says

Aug 3 • 

Erik J Larson

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July 2025

Context, Drift, and the Illusion of Intent

Why Language Models Still Don’t Know What You Mean

Jul 25 • 

Erik J Larson

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Introduction to Coordinated Avian Models (CAMs)

On the Perils of Confusing Cognition with Execution

Jul 22 • 

Erik J Larson

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There’s No Escalator to AGI

The more powerful these systems get, the more we see their limits. Not their minds.

Jul 2 • 

Erik J Larson

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