Substacks recommended by David Berreby | Robots for the Rest of Us

Recommended by David Berreby

Robotics and AI; the future we're building and how we'll get there

Well-written and well-informed insights into robotics from an actual roboticist. Great for keeping up with what really matters in the robot world.

- David Berreby

MKTCONTEXT

By MktContext

How to time the stock market. Professional trader, investor, and manager of $5B fund. Beating the market for over a decade.

The Intelligent Friend

By Riccardo Vocca

The newsletter exploring how AI is transforming our daily lives, through scientific research.

Exploring the relationship between AI and humans, only through scientific papers.

- David Berreby

Wild World of Work

By Matt Beane

Investigating the wild world of work, learning, and intelligent technologies - through research and responsible thinking.

Insights and information you can't get anywhere else, about AI in real workplaces, from a first-rate thinker and researcher

- David Berreby

Small Potatoes

By Paul Bloom

Psychology, philosophy, jokes, and more

Humane, elegant, smart and authoritative writing about the mind, from one of the leading psychologists of our time.

- David Berreby

Invisible Universe

By Corey S Powell

Where the human senses end, the real wonders begin. Let's go exploring.

Humanity Redefined

By Conrad Gray

Humanity Redefined sheds light on the bleeding edge of technology and how advancements in AI, robotics, and biotech can usher in abundance, expand humanity's horizons, and redefine what it means to be human.

One of the best sources of AI, robotics and biotech insights.

- David Berreby

SCIENCE GODDESS

By Margaret Wertheim

celebrating science as conceptual enchantment, interrogating science as social practice

Keen insights into science, writing and science writing from the unfailingly interesting Margaret Wertheim.

- David Berreby

The Great Gender Divergence

By Alice Evans

Why has the world become more gender equal? Why are some societies more gender equal than others?

How history, culture and psychology converge to open -- or block -- ways of life. One of the most interesting and informative of all Substacks.

- David Berreby

One Useful Thing

By Ethan Mollick

Trying to understand the implications of AI for work, education, and life. By Prof. Ethan Mollick

Ethan Mollick is at the bleeding edge of research on AI's effect on work and workers

- David Berreby

AI Tidbits

By Sahar Mor

Stay ahead on the latest in AI through weekly summaries and editorial deep dives providing unique perspectives on recent developments

A quick summary each week of what's new in generative AI developments.

- David Berreby

Marcus on AI

By Gary Marcus

"Marcus has become one of our few indispensable public intellectuals. The more people read him, the better our actions in shaping Al will be." - Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Ministry for the Future

The most lucid, well-informed and intelligent skeptic of AI as it is currently being built. Read here to get past hype and understand the real stakes in artificial intelligence research.

- David Berreby

OK, Robot

By Michael Spencer of Space Academy

A Newsletter about the present and future of robotics, startups, applications and emerging technology.

First-rate source of news and ideas about robotics

- David Berreby

AI Supremacy

By Michael Spencer

News at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, technology and business including Op-Eds, research summaries, guest contributions and valuable info about A.I. startups.

Great source of news and insights on how (and why, and which) AI gets funded and made

- David Berreby

Interconnects

By Nathan Lambert

The cutting edge of AI, from inside the frontier AI labs, minus the hype. The border between high-level and technical thinking. Read by leading engineers, researchers, and investors on Wednesday mornings.

Invaluable insights into how AI and robots are being made, from inside the places where it's happening. Nathan Lambert, a part of this world, writes about it extremely well.

- David Berreby

What's New Under the Sun

By Matt Clancy

What academia knows* about innovation

Where do new tech and ideas come from? Why does Theory A get all the money and hype while Theory B is forgotten? Are we getting the science we need? Matt Clancy gives you a grip on these kinds of questions, which really ought to get a lot more attention.

- David Berreby

The Convivial Society

By L. M. Sacasas

Thinking about technology, society, and the good life.

Sacasas' humane, deeply-informed essays stand against conventional tech wisdom in the best possible way -- never knee-jerk or facile, always thought-provoking and profound. Essential reading, even if (especially if) you're a digital optimist.

- David Berreby