Eyefor AI

Volume III · Number 6 · September 2026

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Volume III · Number 6 · September 2026 · Independent · Reader supported

Eye for AI

Slower reading about a fast subject.

Long-form essays on artificial intelligence — how it is measured, what it costs, what it is doing to work, and which claims about it survive contact with evidence. We are willing to say we do not know.

Essays in this issueThe full archive

NotesAll notes

  • 07

    On the Word ‘Agent’

    Eye for AI · 1 September 2026

    A term that has meant four things in three years, and what is lost each time it is redefined.

    5 min read
  • 08

    Reading a Capability Announcement

    Eye for AI · 12 August 2026

    A short field guide to the genre: what to look for, what to discount, and the two sentences that carry all the information.

    6 min read

Standing sectionsAll sections

  • Evaluation

    Standing section

    How we measure machine ability, why the measurements decay, and what a serious evaluation would have to look like.

    5 essays

  • Labour & Work

    Standing section

    What automation has historically done to occupations, who absorbed the cost, and why aggregate employment figures answer the wrong question.

    2 essays

  • Policy

    Standing section

    Regulation, procurement, compute thresholds and open weights — read as decisions with trade-offs rather than as a contest between good and bad actors.

    2 essays

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