Narayanan and Kapoor tease essay on the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident through the normal-technology lens
random_walker · x · 2026-09-03
Arvind Narayanan announced an upcoming essay with Sayash Kapoor analyzing the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident and its lessons from the "AI as normal technology" perspective, promising both obvious-but-necessary points and some non-obvious ones. The essay has not yet been published.
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