‘The Matthew Effect in AI Summary’

Just published in LSE Impact, on the “deep research” summary-and-citation tools from both the AI giants and the likes of Elsevier: At the core of all these tools is a series of verbs: to surface, to rank, to summarise, and to recommend. In this sense the AI products...

‘The Bigger Threat to Books Than Bans’

Maria Bustillos, writing for the Columbia Journalism Review in September: US libraries, universities, and bookstores rely for the delivery of books on a small number of very big profit-driven companies, many of them privately held, whose commitment to freedom of...