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Professor, Mailman School, Columbia University

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The New Emperor’s Old Clothes (Project Syndicate op-ed)

April 19, 2024 Amar Bhidé 1373 Views Artificial Intelligence

My Skeptical View of the AI Frenzy After nearly two years of focusing on book writing, I returned to an

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Knightian uncertainty bookUncertaintyBlog

First book blurb (from one of my heroes)

March 25, 2024 Amar Bhidé 1259 Views

Just received this email from one of my heroes. A good man and true. (America missed out on his service,

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Book Cover and Title Done.

March 24, 2024 Amar Bhidé 1038 Views

After driving myself and many friends crazy, I’ve finally converged on a book title and cover.OK, so it’s not War

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Ruminations

RIP Dear D..

March 22, 2024 Amar Bhidé 1242 Views

An Instagram posting on Dorian Allworthy suggested bad news. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz4QRGDgATc/?img_index=1 And she hadn’t posted on Facebook for a long time.

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Windowless Office to Windowless Office.

February 3, 2024 Amar Bhidé 1126 Views

I got my “post-retirement” office and ID yesterday (Feb 2). The office is small and windowless. No matter. I would

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Christopher Saunders: In Memorium

January 29, 2024 Amar Bhidé 1142 Views

From this morning’s email: “Dear Amar, I wanted to let you know the sad news that my father, Christopher Saunders,

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Knightian uncertainty bookRuminations

Failed and Bailed by Technology (with expert human assistance)

December 16, 2023 Amar Bhidé 1595 Views innovation

A Republic of Letters (emails now, actually) correspondent who had kindly read early drafts of my manuscript on uncertainty had

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Draft of Uncertainty, Judgment, and Enterprise complete!

November 18, 2023 Amar Bhidé 1021 Views

And here’s the link for anyone who wants to look. Comments welcome! Please email amar AT Bhide dot Net /

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High and low-potential applications for LLMs

October 5, 2023 Amar Bhidé 1208 Views

It bears repeating LLMs are not the same as all of AI. LLMs are a few years old, AI goes

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Whose company? Whose oversight?

September 6, 2023 Amar Bhidé 1437 Views

https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-spacex-loan-269a2168 The WSJ story is interesting. Some WSJ reader comments even more so. They defend Musk on three grounds: On

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