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Panel…", "words": 1546, "section": "supporting/late-lessons/digests/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/late-lessons/digests/LL2-17.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/late-lessons/digests/LL2-18.md", "html": "supporting/late-lessons/digests/LL2-18.html", "title": "LL2-18 digest: Part C (Emerging issues) and Ch18, Late lessons from Chernobyl, early warnings from Fukushima", "summary": "EEA 2013, report pp. 429–457. 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There are no panels or responses, so opposing…", "words": 1241, "section": "supporting/late-lessons/digests/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/late-lessons/digests/LL2-21.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/late-lessons/digests/LL2-22.md", "html": "supporting/late-lessons/digests/LL2-22.html", "title": "LL2-22 digest — Ch22 Nanotechnology: early lessons from early warnings", "summary": "EEA Report No 1/2013, pp. 530–560 (text pp. 530–551). Authors: Hansen, Maynard, Baun, Tickner, Bowman. The chapter updates their 2008 Nature Nanotechnology article. It has no panels. Andrew Maynard, the project lead, is…", "words": 1429, "section": "supporting/late-lessons/digests/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/late-lessons/digests/LL2-22.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/late-lessons/digests/LL2-23.md", "html": "supporting/late-lessons/digests/LL2-23.html", "title": "LL2-23 digest — Part D front matter and Ch23 Understanding and accounting for the costs of inaction", "summary": "Late lessons from early warnings II (EEA 2013), pp. 561–580 (PDF 563–582).", "words": 1224, "section": "supporting/late-lessons/digests/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/late-lessons/digests/LL2-23.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/late-lessons/digests/LL2-24.md", "html": "supporting/late-lessons/digests/LL2-24.html", "title": "LL2-24 digest — Ch24 Protecting early warners and late victims", "summary": "Late lessons from early warnings II (EEA 2013), pp. 581–606 (PDF 583–608).", "words": 1326, "section": "supporting/late-lessons/digests/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/late-lessons/digests/LL2-24.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/late-lessons/digests/LL2-25.md", "html": "supporting/late-lessons/digests/LL2-25.html", "title": "LL2-25 digest — Ch25 Why did business not react with precaution to early warnings?", "summary": "Late lessons from early warnings vol. 2 (EEA 2013), pp. 607–620 (text pp. 607–617). 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Gee…", "words": 1312, "section": "supporting/late-lessons/digests/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/late-lessons/digests/LL2-27.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/late-lessons/digests/LL2-28.md", "html": "supporting/late-lessons/digests/LL2-28.html", "title": "LL2-28 — Ch28 In conclusion (digest)", "summary": "Late lessons from early warnings (EEA 2013), pp. 670–684. 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Written 26 September 2026 from primary sources where possible. Scope: what kind of documents the two EEA Late lessons from early warnings reports are, where they came from, what they draw on, and…", "words": 5882, "section": "supporting/late-lessons/external/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/late-lessons/external/context.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/late-lessons/external/critiques.md", "html": "supporting/late-lessons/external/critiques.html", "title": "Reception and critique of the EEA Late Lessons reports (2001, 2013)", "summary": "Working note, Strand A. 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The check covers evidence from 2001 to September 2026.", "words": 9887, "section": "supporting/late-lessons/hindsight/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/late-lessons/hindsight/LL1-02.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/late-lessons/hindsight/LL1-03.md", "html": "supporting/late-lessons/hindsight/LL1-03.html", "title": "LL1-03 hindsight check: Radiation: early warnings; late effects", "summary": "Late lessons from early warnings (EEA, 2001), Chapter 3, pp. 31–37. Author: Barrie Lambert. Check covers 2001 to late September 2026. 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Page numbers refer to the 2001 report.", "words": 10117, "section": "supporting/late-lessons/hindsight/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/late-lessons/hindsight/LL1-04.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/late-lessons/hindsight/LL1-05.md", "html": "supporting/late-lessons/hindsight/LL1-05.html", "title": "LL1-05 hindsight check: Asbestos, from \"magic\" to malevolent mineral", "summary": "Late lessons from early warnings: the precautionary principle 1896–2000 (EEA Environmental Issue Report No 22, 2001), Chapter 5, pp. 52–63. 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Checked against the digest and the source extract…", "words": 7916, "section": "supporting/late-lessons/hindsight/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/late-lessons/hindsight/LL2-00.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/late-lessons/hindsight/LL2-02.md", "html": "supporting/late-lessons/hindsight/LL2-02.html", "title": "LL2-02 hindsight check: The precautionary principle and false alarms — lessons learned (Hansen and Tickner), Late lessons from early warnings: science, precaution, innovation (EEA Report No 1/2013), Ch. 2, pp. 17–45", "summary": "Checked 25 September 2026. The check covers what happened between publication (January 2013) and September 2026 that bears on the chapter's claims, evidence, predictions and recommendations. 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The chapter is by David Michaels and Celeste Monforton (pp. 131–144), followed by a panel by Tee L.…", "words": 9207, "section": "supporting/late-lessons/hindsight/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/late-lessons/hindsight/LL2-06.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/late-lessons/hindsight/LL2-07.md", "html": "supporting/late-lessons/hindsight/LL2-07.html", "title": "LL2-07 hindsight check: Tobacco industry manipulation of research (Bero; Panel 7.1 by Smith, Gilmore and Fooks), Late lessons from early warnings: science, precaution, innovation (EEA Report No 1/2013), Ch. 7, pp. 151–178", "summary": "Checked 25 September 2026. The check covers what happened between publication (January 2013) and September 2026 that bears on the chapter's claims, evidence, predictions and recommendations. 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Only his…", "words": 6907, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/facets/F5-public-scholar-role.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/facets/F6-unique-value-for-ai.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/facets/F6-unique-value-for-ai.html", "title": "F6. What Maynard's work brings to the AI discussion", "summary": "One facet of how Andrew Maynard thinks and works, written from his own perspective: what he sees, frames and does that others in the AI debate typically do not, where this is unique, and where its limits lie. 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Almost all of them are Conversation op-eds or 2020 Science blog posts that were later moved to the Substack.", "words": 4505, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B01.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B02.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B02.html", "title": "B02 perspective notes: how Andrew thinks (2018-08-26 to 2018-11-15, 17 posts)", "summary": "Sixteen of the 17 posts are the weekly run-up to the publication of Films from the Future (FFTF) on 15 November 2018. Most are abridged chapter openings, sometimes with italic framing notes he added when posting. The…", "words": 3561, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B02.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B03.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B03.html", "title": "B03 perspective notes: how he thinks (14 posts, 2018-11-25 to 2019-06-12)", "summary": "Batch context. These are the months after Films from the Future (FFTF, Mango, November 2018) came out, while he was directing the ASU Risk Innovation Lab and teaching in the School for the Future of Innovation in…", "words": 4619, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B03.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B04.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B04.html", "title": "B04 perspective notes: 2019-07-23 to 2020-07-30 (8 posts)", "summary": "I read all eight posts in full, looking at how he thinks and works as well as what he says. I read the earlier concept notes only afterwards, as a cross-check.", "words": 3717, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B04.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B05.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B05.html", "title": "B05 perspective notes: how he thinks (2020-08-28 to 2021-02-25, 13 posts)", "summary": "All 13 posts were read in full. The earlier concept notes were consulted only after that reading. Quotes were checked character by character against the corpus files and keep the source's spelling and italics.", "words": 4900, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B05.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B06.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B06.html", "title": "B06 perspective notes: how he thinks (13 posts, 2021-03-28 to 2022-12-13)", "summary": "Read for method, values and role rather than for concepts. All 13 posts were read in full. There are no Modem Futura posts in this batch; 2021-05-28 announces the Future Rising podcast, a different show. Every quote…", "words": 5474, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B06.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B07.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B07.html", "title": "B07 — perspective notes (2023-01-31 to 2023-04-12, 8 posts)", "summary": "What this batch covers. Two ChatGPT experiments from the Medium period (January and March 2023), then the April 2023 move to Substack, in the weeks after GPT-4 arrived and the Future of Life Institute's \"pause\" letter…", "words": 3837, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B07.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B08.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B08.html", "title": "B08 perspective notes: 2023-04-14 to 2023-05-12 (12 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All twelve posts were read in full. Quotes are exact, including his typos.", "words": 4218, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B08.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B09.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B09.html", "title": "B09 perspective notes: 2023-05-15 to 2023-07-21 (18 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All 17 posts with text were read in full. Quotes are exact, including his typos and curly punctuation.", "words": 6127, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B09.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B10.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B10.html", "title": "B10 perspective notes: 2023-07-25 to 2023-09-01 (18 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All eighteen posts were read in full, including the six Moviegoer's Guide episode posts (their written introductions only; the audio was…", "words": 5282, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B10.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B11.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B11.html", "title": "B11 perspective notes: 2023-09-04 to 2023-10-20 (18 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All 18 posts were read in full. Quotes are exact, including his typos, except that straight apostrophes replace curly ones.", "words": 5308, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B11.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B12.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B12.html", "title": "B12 perspective notes: 2023-10-24 to 2023-12-01 (17 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All seventeen posts were read in full. Quotes are exact, including his typos. There are no Modem Futura posts in this batch.", "words": 5106, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B12.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B13.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B13.html", "title": "B13 perspective notes: 2023-12-03 to 2024-02-05 (15 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All fifteen posts were read in full. There are no Modem Futura posts in this batch. Quotes are exact apart from straightened apostrophes,…", "words": 5513, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B13.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B14.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B14.html", "title": "B14 perspective notes: 2024-02-11 to 2024-04-14 (18 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read all eighteen posts in full. For the six \"In Conversation With …\" audio posts only his framing lines count as evidence. Quotes are…", "words": 5686, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B14.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B15.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B15.html", "title": "B15 perspective notes: 2024-04-16 to 2024-06-23 (16 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All sixteen posts were read in full. Quotes are exact, including his typos (\"free reign\", \"might of been\", \"what what is\", \"AI’s\", \"chose…", "words": 6715, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B15.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B16.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B16.html", "title": "B16 perspective notes: 2024-06-25 to 2024-08-18 (15 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All fifteen posts were read in full. There are no Modem Futura note posts in this batch. Quotes are exact, including his typos (\"I’d of…", "words": 5442, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B16.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B17.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B17.html", "title": "B17 perspective notes: 2024-08-21 to 2024-09-25 (10 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All ten posts were read in full. Quotes are exact, including his typos. There are no Modem Futura episode posts in this batch. The…", "words": 5139, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B17.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B18.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B18.html", "title": "B18 perspective notes: 2024-09-28 (1 post)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. The batch is a single post, 2024-09-28 chatgpt-as-author-part-1-the-story, which I read in full, including a skim of the novella. Quotes…", "words": 3478, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B18.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B19.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B19.html", "title": "B19 perspective notes: 2024-09-29 to 2024-11-03 (9 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All nine posts were read in full; the Modem Futura launch note was read for his framing lines only. Quotes are exact, including his…", "words": 5963, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B19.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B20.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B20.html", "title": "B20 perspective notes: 2024-11-06 to 2025-01-12 (18 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read all eighteen posts in full. The five Modem Futura episode posts were read for his own framing lines only; the episodes themselves…", "words": 6537, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B20.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B21.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B21.html", "title": "B21 perspective notes: 2025-01-14 to 2025-02-25 (14 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All fourteen posts were read in full. The six Modem Futura posts (2025-01-14, 01-21, 01-28, 02-11, 02-18, 02-25) were read for his own…", "words": 6329, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B21.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B22.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B22.html", "title": "B22 perspective notes: 2025-03-02 to 2025-03-27 (10 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. All ten posts were read in full. The four Modem Futura episode posts were read for his own framing lines only. Quotes are exact,…", "words": 6454, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B22.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B23.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B23.html", "title": "B23 perspective notes: 2025-03-30 to 2025-04-01 (2 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. Both posts were read in full. Quotes are exact, including his typos (\"2025 Yidan Price Conference\", \"Chef AI Officer\", \"we need to take…", "words": 3363, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B23.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B24.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B24.html", "title": "B24 perspective notes: 2025-04-06 to 2025-04-08 (2 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read both posts in full. For the o1-pro report embedded in the first post, I read the Executive Summary and main body and skimmed…", "words": 3744, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B24.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B25.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B25.html", "title": "B25 perspective notes: 2025-04-13 to 2025-05-25 (10 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read all ten posts in full. For the three Modem Futura episode posts I took only his own framing lines. Quotes are exact, including his…", "words": 5964, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B25.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B26.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B26.html", "title": "B26 perspective notes: 2025-06-01 to 2025-08-31 (13 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read all 13 posts in full. The one Modem Futura plug (08-26) was read for his own framing lines only. Quotes are exact, including his…", "words": 5775, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B26.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B27.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B27.html", "title": "B27 perspective notes: 2025-09-07 to 2025-11-24 (16 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. Every post was read in full; the Modem Futura note was skimmed for his own framing lines. Quotes are exact, including his typos (\"hight…", "words": 5446, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B27.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B28.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B28.html", "title": "B28 perspective notes: 2025-11-24 to 2026-01-25 (12 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read all twelve posts in full. The earlier concept notes were consulted only after reading, to check provenance. Quotes are exact,…", "words": 5781, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B28.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B29.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B29.html", "title": "B29 perspective notes: 2026-01-31 to 2026-05-10 (18 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read all eighteen texts in full. One is a Modem Futura episode post (2026-03-15), read for his framing lines only; the episode itself…", "words": 7757, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B29.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B30.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B30.html", "title": "B30 perspective notes: 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-10 (8 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read all eight posts in full, including the AI-written sections, to check for any passages in his own voice inside them. There are no…", "words": 5039, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B30.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B31.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B31.html", "title": "B31 perspective notes: 2026-07-16 to 2026-09-20 (9 posts)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read all nine posts in full, including the whole of the roughly 11,000-word orphan-risks paper. None of the posts is a Modem Futura…", "words": 5338, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B31.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B32.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B32.html", "title": "B32 perspective notes: 2026-09-24 (1 post)", "summary": "These notes read the batch for how Maynard thinks, not for the concepts he names. I read the one post in full: introduction, lecture body, postscript, Claude's process account and all nine footnotes. Quotes are exact,…", "words": 5330, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/B32.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/FFTF-A.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/FFTF-A.html", "title": "FFTF-A perspective notes: how Andrew Maynard thinks, from Films from the Future (2018)", "summary": "What was read. - Read in full: book/FFTF-A.txt. This covers ch1 \"In the Beginning\" (pp.14–26), ch2 \"Jurassic Park: The Rise of Resurrection Biology\" (pp.27–45), ch14 \"Looking to the Future\" (pp.287–291) and the…", "words": 5890, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/FFTF-A.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/SUPP-self.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/SUPP-self.html", "title": "SUPP-self perspective notes: how Andrew Maynard describes his own thinking (self-accounts, 2011–2026)", "summary": "Scope. This batch covers the texts where Andrew explains himself: what he does, how he does it and why. It also covers the Nature and Nature Nanotechnology columns that show where his method came from, and the stated…", "words": 6503, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/notes/SUPP-self.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/portrait.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/portrait.html", "title": "Grounded exuberance: how Andrew Maynard thinks and works", "summary": "A portrait of a physicist turned scholar of risk, technology and the future of being human, drawn from his own writing between 2006 and 2026. Sources and abbreviations are explained in the note at the end.", "words": 9945, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/portrait.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/review/05-revision-log.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/review/05-revision-log.html", "title": "Revision log: 05-maynard-risk-and-ai-map.md, 27 September 2026", "summary": "What was changed in the public map of Maynard's thinking, and why. Inputs: perspective/portrait.md, perspective/review/box.md, fixation.md and value.md, and facet F3 for detail. The pre-revision file is saved as…", "words": 2325, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/review/05-revision-log.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/review/06-revision-log.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/review/06-revision-log.html", "title": "Revision log: 06-huang-and-late-lessons-through-maynard.md, 27 September 2026", "summary": "What was changed in the public report reading Huang, the industry, Late Lessons, the article and the AI moment through Maynard's work, and why. The pre-revision file is saved as…", "words": 2111, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/review/06-revision-log.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/review/box.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/review/box.html", "title": "Review: the \"conventional box\" in 05 and 06", "summary": "Working review, 27 September 2026. It checks 05-maynard-risk-and-ai-map.md (the map) and 06-huang-and-late-lessons-through-maynard.md (the report) against working/maynard/perspective/portrait.md and facets F1–F6. The…", "words": 6378, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/review/box.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/review/final-box-fixation.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/review/final-box-fixation.html", "title": "Final check: box and fixation in the revised 05 and 06", "summary": "Final check of 05-maynard-risk-and-ai-map.md (revised 27 September 2026, about 54,100 words) and 06-huang-and-late-lessons-through-maynard.md (rebuilt 27 September 2026, about 25,100 words). The standard is the…", "words": 4408, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/review/final-box-fixation.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/review/final-fairness-public.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/review/final-fairness-public.html", "title": "Final check: fairness and public framing of 05 and 06 (27 September 2026)", "summary": "Scope: (a) whether 06 represents Huang accurately, with his conditions and concessions; (b) whether the labs and the Late Lessons analysis get the same objective standard; (c) whether 05 and 06 work as standalone public…", "words": 3438, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/review/final-fairness-public.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/review/final-fidelity.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/review/final-fidelity.html", "title": "Final fidelity and perspective check: 05 and 06 against Maynard's own texts", "summary": "27 September 2026. Scope: 05-maynard-risk-and-ai-map.md (mainly §1–§3, §5, §8 \"How he updates\", §9) and 06-huang-and-late-lessons-through-maynard.md (§1–§7, §8.3, §9–§10). Forty claims about Maynard were spot-checked…", "words": 4303, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/review/final-fidelity.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/review/final-log.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/review/final-log.html", "title": "Final checks: outcomes log, 27 September 2026", "summary": "Applies final-fidelity.md (F), final-box-fixation.md (B) and final-fairness-public.md (P) to 05-maynard-risk-and-ai-map.md and 06-huang-and-late-lessons-through-maynard.md. Each issue was checked against the source…", "words": 1915, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/review/final-log.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/review/fixation.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/review/fixation.html", "title": "Fixation and evergreen review of 05 and 06", "summary": "Review of 05-maynard-risk-and-ai-map.md (05) and 06-huang-and-late-lessons-through-maynard.md (06) against perspective/portrait.md and facets F1–F6. Claims were checked against the post corpus (working/maynard/corpus/),…", "words": 4953, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/review/fixation.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/perspective/review/value.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/perspective/review/value.html", "title": "Review: undervalued framings and unique value in 05 and 06", "summary": "Review of 05-maynard-risk-and-ai-map.md and 06-huang-and-late-lessons-through-maynard.md against working/maynard/perspective/portrait.md and facets F1–F6. Question: where do 05 and 06 undervalue framings that matter for…", "words": 7071, "section": "supporting/maynard/perspective/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/perspective/review/value.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B01-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B01-digest.html", "title": "B01 digest: 2014-11-23 to 2018-08-22 (18 posts)", "summary": "This batch is the pre-Substack foundation. Most of it is Conversation op-eds and 2020 Science posts, later migrated. Several carry Substack dates months earlier than their true publication (see B01.md), so the…", "words": 1153, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B01-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B01.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B01.html", "title": "B01 notes: 18 posts, 2014-11-23 to 2018-08-22", "summary": "Batch scope: early material carried over to the Substack from The Conversation (most posts) and from Andrew's older blog 2020 Science (2020science.org). All 18 posts were read in full. No Modem Futura podcast posts fall…", "words": 6178, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B01.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B02-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B02-digest.html", "title": "B02 digest: 2018-08-26 to 2018-11-15 (17 posts)", "summary": "This batch is almost entirely the launch run for Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies (November 2018). Sixteen of the 17 posts are chapter excerpts, a self-Q&A or a spin-off essay. The…", "words": 1235, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B02-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B02.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B02.html", "title": "Batch B02: notes (2018-08-26 to 2018-11-15, 17 posts)", "summary": "None. Every post in this batch touches his core themes. The 2018-10-18 Inferno excerpt is the thinnest, and it is rated medium only for its framing ideas.", "words": 5798, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B02.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B03-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B03-digest.html", "title": "B03 digest: November 2018 to June 2019 (14 posts)", "summary": "1. Risk needs rethinking, not just applying: risk innovation, threat to value and orphan risks. The 2018-12-13 post sets out a three-part toolkit from the ASU Risk Innovation Lab: - Risk innovation: \"we need parallel…", "words": 1195, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B03-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B03.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B03.html", "title": "B03 reading notes: 14 posts, 2018-11-25 to 2019-06-12", "summary": "Batch context. This is the Medium-era archive, carried over to Substack, from the months after Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies came out (Mango, November 2018). Several posts are…", "words": 5695, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B03.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B04-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B04-digest.html", "title": "B04 digest: July 2019 to July 2020", "summary": "The batch has eight posts. All are medium or high relevance, and none is a Modem Futura podcast post. Four are adapted from his earlier work: - chapters 3 and 4 of Films from the Future - a 2018 Astrobiology article - a…", "words": 1201, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B04-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B04.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B04.html", "title": "Batch B04 notes: 2019-07-23 to 2020-07-30 (8 posts)", "summary": "All eight posts were read in full. None is a Modem Futura podcast post; the batch has no AI-generated text. Provenance problems here come from co-authorship (two posts) and from posts adapted from his earlier books and…", "words": 3700, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B04.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B05-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B05-digest.html", "title": "B05 digest: August 2020 to February 2021", "summary": "All the text is his own. There is no AI-generated, guest or co-written material. The FFTF excerpts record what he thought in 2017–18, reaffirmed in 2020–21 by his choice to reissue them. Chronologically this batch comes…", "words": 1205, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B05-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B05.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B05.html", "title": "B05 reading notes: 2020-08-28 to 2021-02-25 (13 posts)", "summary": "Batch context: this is the Medium-era (\"Edge of Innovation\") material carried over to the Substack. Most original posts were first published on the ASU College of Global Futures Dean's Blog, where Maynard was then…", "words": 5227, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B05.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B06-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B06-digest.html", "title": "B06 digest (2021-03-28 to 2022-12-13, 13 posts)", "summary": "This batch covers the period from the pandemic to the release of ChatGPT. It captures Maynard at a hinge point. His established identity as a nanomaterial risk scientist and a scholar of responsible innovation through…", "words": 1214, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B06-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B06.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B06.html", "title": "Batch B06 notes (13 posts, 2021-03-28 to 2022-12-13)", "summary": "All 13 posts were read in full. This batch has no Modem Futura podcast posts. The 2021-05-28 post announces his Future Rising podcast, which is a different show. Most of these posts started on Medium (the slugs carry…", "words": 4910, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B06.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B07-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B07-digest.html", "title": "B07 digest — January to April 2023 (8 posts)", "summary": "This batch marks the start of The Future of Being Human as a Substack. It contains two ChatGPT experiments from the Medium period (January and March 2023), the Substack launch note, and a burst of short, fast pieces…", "words": 1225, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B07-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B07.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B07.html", "title": "B07 — reading notes (2023-01-31 to 2023-04-12, 8 posts)", "summary": "Batch context: this batch covers his move from Medium to Substack. The first two posts are ChatGPT experiments from the Medium period (later carried over to the Substack archive). The April 2023 posts are his first…", "words": 4328, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B07.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B08-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B08-digest.html", "title": "B08 digest: 2023-04-14 to 2023-05-12", "summary": "This batch covers four weeks in spring 2023. ChatGPT was about five months old, and the Future of Life Institute \"pause\" letter had just come out. Maynard answers the moment largely by going back to his own earlier work…", "words": 1182, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B08-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B08.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B08.html", "title": "B08 notes: 2023-04-14 to 2023-05-12 (12 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B08. Only his own prose is treated as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his original typos and curly punctuation.", "words": 5107, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B08.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B09-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B09-digest.html", "title": "B09 digest: 2023-05-15 to 2023-07-21", "summary": "This batch has eighteen posts from mid-2023, when AI governance moved from talk to institutions. Maynard responds almost in real time to a run of events:", "words": 1149, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B09-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B09.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B09.html", "title": "B09 notes: 2023-05-15 to 2023-07-21 (18 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B09. Only his own prose is treated as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his original typos and curly punctuation.", "words": 7045, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B09.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B10-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B10-digest.html", "title": "B10 digest: 2023-07-25 to 2023-09-01 (18 posts)", "summary": "Late summer 2023. Maynard has just taught his first ChatGPT course, term is about to start, and he is serialising audio readings of Films from the Future as The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future (episodes 4–9; only his…", "words": 1202, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B10-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B10.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B10.html", "title": "B10 notes: 2023-07-25 to 2023-09-01 (18 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B10. Only his own prose is treated as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his original typos and curly punctuation.", "words": 6709, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B10.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B11-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B11-digest.html", "title": "B11 digest: 2023-09-04 to 2023-10-20", "summary": "This batch covers seven weeks in autumn 2023. About a third of the posts are wrappers for the last five episodes of The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future, in which he reads chapters of Films from the Future (2018). The…", "words": 1206, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B11-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B11.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B11.html", "title": "B11 notes: 2023-09-04 to 2023-10-20 (18 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B11. Only his own prose is treated as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his original typos and curly punctuation.", "words": 5677, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B11.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B12-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B12-digest.html", "title": "B12 digest: 2023-10-24 to 2023-12-01", "summary": "This batch covers five weeks in autumn 2023: the Biden Executive Order on AI, the Bletchley Park summit, OpenAI's custom GPTs, the Cruise robotaxi crisis, Sam Altman's firing and return, and ChatGPT's first anniversary.…", "words": 1187, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B12-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B12.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B12.html", "title": "B12 notes: 2023-10-24 to 2023-12-01 (17 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B12. Only his own prose counts as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his typos and curly punctuation.", "words": 6086, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B12.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B13-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B13-digest.html", "title": "B13 digest: 2023-12-03 to 2024-02-05", "summary": "Fifteen posts from the ten weeks around the turn of 2024, mostly reactions to documents or events: the Pope's World Day of Peace message, the UN AI Advisory Body's interim report, the WEF Global Risks Report and Davos,…", "words": 1211, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B13-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B13.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B13.html", "title": "B13 notes: 2023-12-03 to 2024-02-05 (15 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B13. Only his own prose is treated as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his original typos and curly punctuation.", "words": 7059, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B13.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B14-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B14-digest.html", "title": "B14 digest: 2024-02-11 to 2024-04-14", "summary": "Nine weeks in early 2024: Sora, Gemini's image failure, Neuralink's first patient, a burned Waymo, Orchid's embryo screening, the Apple Vision Pro. Maynard answers as Director of ASU's Future of Being Human initiative…", "words": 1205, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B14-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B14.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B14.html", "title": "B14 notes: 2024-02-11 to 2024-04-14 (18 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B14. Only his own prose is treated as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his original typos and curly punctuation.", "words": 6500, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B14.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B15-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B15-digest.html", "title": "B15 digest: 2024-04-16 to 2024-06-23 (16 posts)", "summary": "Ten weeks in spring and early summer 2024, driven by several events: FHI's closure, DeepMind's Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants, GPT-4o, the Johansson voice row, and Safe Superintelligence Inc. Most of the posts are…", "words": 1134, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B15-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B15.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B15.html", "title": "B15 notes: 2024-04-16 to 2024-06-23 (16 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B15. Only his own prose is treated as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his original typos and curly punctuation; asterisks mark his italics.", "words": 7153, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B15.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B16-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B16-digest.html", "title": "B16 digest: 2024-06-25 to 2024-08-18", "summary": "Fifteen posts from summer 2024, unified by the frame of advanced technology transitions. Two posts come out of his preparation for an IEEE keynote in Bali, \"A New Science of Navigating Advanced Technology Transitions\":", "words": 1206, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B16-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B16.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B16.html", "title": "B16 notes: 2024-06-25 to 2024-08-18 (15 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B16. Only his own prose is treated as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his original typos and curly punctuation. (The Dune post contains invisible soft…", "words": 7164, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B16.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B17-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B17-digest.html", "title": "B17 digest: 2024-08-21 to 2024-09-25", "summary": "Ten posts from the start of the 2024–25 academic year, almost all his own prose, and no Modem Futura episode posts. The main non-authorial material: - AI outputs: o1 and GPT-4o transcripts (09-13), NotebookLM audio, and…", "words": 1215, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B17-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B17.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B17.html", "title": "B17 notes: 2024-08-21 to 2024-09-25 (10 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B17. Only his own prose counts as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his original typos and curly punctuation. Asterisks inside quotes mark his own italics.", "words": 5636, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B17.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B18-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B18-digest.html", "title": "B18 digest: 2024-09-28 (1 post)", "summary": "One very long post, \"ChatGPT as Author Part 1: The Story\" (2024-09-28, chatgpt-as-author-part-1-the-story). It runs to about 15,900 words, but almost all of that is not his. - Not his (about 14,000 words): the novella…", "words": 1184, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B18-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B18.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B18.html", "title": "B18 notes: 2024-09-28 (1 post)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack post in batch B18. Only his own prose counts as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his original typos and curly punctuation. Quotes from his prompts to ChatGPT keep the…", "words": 1860, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B18.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B19-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B19-digest.html", "title": "B19 digest: 2024-09-29 to 2024-11-03", "summary": "Five weeks in autumn 2024: Altman's \"Intelligence Age\", the Hopfield–Hinton Nobel, Amodei's \"Machines of Loving Grace\", the Character.AI teen suicide case, and a PNAS study on covert AI face manipulation. The podcast…", "words": 1163, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B19-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B19.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B19.html", "title": "B19 notes: 2024-09-29 to 2024-11-03 (9 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B19. Only his own prose counts as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his typos and curly punctuation.", "words": 5388, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B19.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B20-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B20-digest.html", "title": "B20 digest: 2024-11-06 to 2025-01-12", "summary": "Ten weeks from Trump's election to mid-January 2025, covering OpenAI's \"12 days\" releases, o3, and Altman's prediction that AI agents would \"join the workforce\". Five of the eighteen posts are Modem Futura podcast…", "words": 1212, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B20-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B20.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B20.html", "title": "B20 notes: 2024-11-06 to 2025-01-12 (18 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B20. Only his own prose is treated as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his original typos, italics markers and curly punctuation.", "words": 6486, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B20.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B21-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B21-digest.html", "title": "B21 digest: 2025-01-14 to 2025-02-25", "summary": "Fourteen posts from early 2025 (Stargate, the rescinded Biden AI Executive Order, DeepSeek R1, the International AI Safety Report, Antiqua et Nova, Deep Research, Evo 2). Six posts are Modem Futura promotions and are…", "words": 1223, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B21-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B21.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B21.html", "title": "B21 notes: 2025-01-14 to 2025-02-25 (14 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B21. Only his own prose is treated as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his original typos and curly punctuation; asterisks mark his italics.", "words": 5535, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B21.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B22-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B22-digest.html", "title": "B22 digest: 2025-03-02 to 2025-03-27", "summary": "Four weeks in March 2025. Deep Research has just arrived, Manus has opened early access, and DOGE is at work in Washington. Of the ten posts, four are Modem Futura episode notes and are set aside here, following the…", "words": 1192, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B22-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B22.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B22.html", "title": "B22 notes: 2025-03-02 to 2025-03-27 (10 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B22. Only his own prose counts as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his original typos and curly punctuation.", "words": 5583, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B22.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B23-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B23-digest.html", "title": "B23 digest: 2025-03-30 to 2025-04-01 (2 posts)", "summary": "There are two posts, both about his keynote \"What does the future look like?\" at the 2025 Yidan Prize Conference. ASU's Mary Lou Fulton College co-hosted the conference.", "words": 1199, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B23-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B23.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B23.html", "title": "B23 notes: 2025-03-30 to 2025-04-01 (2 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B23. Only his own prose counts as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his original typos, curly punctuation and italics (shown as asterisks).", "words": 2756, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B23.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B24-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B24-digest.html", "title": "B24 digest: 2025-04-06 to 2025-04-08 (2 posts)", "summary": "There are two posts, and only one of them counts.", "words": 1189, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B24-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B24.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B24.html", "title": "B24 notes: 2025-04-06 to 2025-04-08 (2 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B24. Only his own prose counts as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his typos and curly punctuation.", "words": 2486, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B24.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B25-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B25-digest.html", "title": "B25 digest: 2025-04-13 to 2025-05-25", "summary": "Spring 2025: Colossal's \"dire wolves\", US and Chinese plans for AI in schools, agentic AI (Manus), and the end of the ASU teaching year. Three of the ten posts are Modem Futura episode posts, set aside per the user's…", "words": 1201, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B25-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B25.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B25.html", "title": "B25 notes: 2025-04-13 to 2025-05-25 (10 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B25. Only his own prose counts as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his original typos, curly punctuation and italics (shown as asterisks).", "words": 7130, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B25.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B26-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B26-digest.html", "title": "B26 digest: 2025-06-01 to 2025-08-31 (13 posts)", "summary": "Summer 2025, about 23,500 words, mostly his own prose. Exceptions: AI outputs he published (model \"lies\" in the Grok post, a GPT-5 example assessment), an assessment prompt co-developed with ChatGPT, WEF-authored…", "words": 1198, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B26-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B26.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B26.html", "title": "B26 notes: 2025-06-01 to 2025-08-31 (13 posts)", "summary": "These are reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B26. Only his own prose counts as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his typos and curly punctuation.", "words": 8195, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B26.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B27-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B27-digest.html", "title": "B27 digest: 2025-09-07 to 2025-11-24 (16 posts)", "summary": "Autumn 2025. Five posts cover the launch of AI and the Art of Being Human, written with venture capitalist Jeff Abbott and in close collaboration with Claude. Alongside them is a cluster of close-to-home AI risk posts…", "words": 1205, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B27-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B27.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B27.html", "title": "B27 notes: 2025-09-07 to 2025-11-24 (16 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B27. Only his own prose counts as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his original typos, curly punctuation and italics (shown as asterisks).", "words": 7838, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B27.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B28-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B28-digest.html", "title": "B28 digest: 2025-11-24 to 2026-01-25 (12 posts)", "summary": "The batch has two halves. - November 2025. His short story Letters from the Department of Intellectual Craft (a book chapter), serialised with an analytical Postscript. The letters are his own prose, written without AI.…", "words": 1226, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B28-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B28.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B28.html", "title": "B28 notes: 2025-11-24 to 2026-01-25 (12 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B28. Only his own prose counts as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his original typos, curly punctuation and italics (shown as asterisks).", "words": 8030, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B28.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B29-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B29-digest.html", "title": "B29 digest: 2026-01-31 to 2026-05-10 (18 posts)", "summary": "Fourteen weeks in early 2026: Moltbook, \"harness engineering\", Claude Opus 4.5 to 4.7, Claude Code, Anthropic withholding Mythos Preview, ASU Atomic, and Dawkins on Claude's consciousness.", "words": 1206, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B29-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B29.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B29.html", "title": "B29 notes: 2026-01-31 to 2026-05-10 (18 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B29. Only his own prose counts as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his typos, italics markers and curly punctuation.", "words": 8074, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B29.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B30-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B30-digest.html", "title": "B30 digest: 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-10 (8 posts)", "summary": "There are eight posts from the start of his sabbatical (announced 17 May, running to August 2027). There is one major essay, on Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas. Four posts are hands-on experiments with Anthropic's…", "words": 1225, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B30-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B30.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B30.html", "title": "B30 notes: 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-10 (8 posts)", "summary": "These are reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B30. Only his own prose counts as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his typos and curly punctuation.", "words": 6164, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B30.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B31-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B31-digest.html", "title": "B31 digest: 2026-07-16 to 2026-09-20 (9 posts)", "summary": "Summer 2026, during his sabbatical. Four threads: his risk innovation thinking applied in scholarly form to frontier AI companies; a self-questioning experiment in AI-written scholarship; a turn toward play and…", "words": 1214, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B31-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B31.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B31.html", "title": "B31 notes: 2026-07-16 to 2026-09-20 (9 posts)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B31. Only his own prose counts as evidence. Quotes are exact, including his typos and curly punctuation.", "words": 7491, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B31.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B32-digest.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B32-digest.html", "title": "B32 digest: 2026-09-24 (1 post)", "summary": "One post, long and central. 2026-09-24 being-an-academic-in-an-age-of-ai is an edited transcript of his 8 September 2026 lecture at King's College London, Paradise desecrated: Is AI destroying the university of our…", "words": 1163, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B32-digest.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B32.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B32.html", "title": "B32 notes: 2026-09-24 (1 post)", "summary": "Reading notes on Andrew Maynard's Substack posts in batch B32. Only his own prose (or his own spoken words, see Provenance) counts as evidence. Quotes are exact, including curly punctuation.", "words": 4383, "section": "supporting/maynard/reading-notes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/reading-notes/B32.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S1-nano-lessons-core.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S1-nano-lessons-core.html", "title": "S1. The core nanotechnology-lessons papers: what they add to the map", "summary": "Supplementary reading for 05-maynard-risk-and-ai-map.md. Share S1: eleven papers, reports and commentaries from 2005 to 2023 on nanomaterial risk, nano-safety research strategy, nano regulation and the lessons of…", "words": 9761, "section": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S1-nano-lessons-core.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S2-nature-nano-columns.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S2-nature-nano-columns.html", "title": "S2. The Nature Nanotechnology \"Thesis\" columns, 2014–2016: what they add to the map", "summary": "Supplementary reading for 05-maynard-risk-and-ai-map.md. Share S2: the eleven sole-authored \"Thesis\" columns in Resources/maynard-papers/Maynard supplied/, plus the arXiv submitted text of one of them. Every item was…", "words": 10041, "section": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S2-nature-nano-columns.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S3-testimony-institutions-2020science.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S3-testimony-institutions-2020science.html", "title": "S3: testimony, institutions and the 2020science record (2006–2017, with a 2026 retrospective)", "summary": "Supplementary reading for 05-maynard-risk-and-ai-map.md. Share S3-testimony-institutions-2020science. Prepared 26 September 2026. This file covers Andrew Maynard's own thinking only and makes no comparison with any…", "words": 13175, "section": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S3-testimony-institutions-2020science.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S4-risk-innovation-materials.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S4-risk-innovation-materials.html", "title": "S4. Risk innovation materials: what they add to the map", "summary": "Supplementary reading for 05-maynard-risk-and-ai-map.md. Share S4: the ASU Risk Innovation Nexus materials (2019–2020), the Risk Innovation Planner files (template and OpenAI hypothetical, posted 2023), two Nexus blog…", "words": 10112, "section": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S4-risk-innovation-materials.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S5-2026-ai-papers.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S5-2026-ai-papers.html", "title": "S5: his AI papers, 2019–2026, and what they add to the map", "summary": "Supplementary reading for 05-maynard-risk-and-ai-map.md. Share S5-2026-ai-papers. Prepared 26 September 2026. This file covers his own thinking only and makes no comparison with any other material. The map was read but…", "words": 9082, "section": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S5-2026-ai-papers.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S6-april-2026-essays.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S6-april-2026-essays.html", "title": "S6. The April 2026 andrewmaynard.net essays (plus the 2023 Conversation companion)", "summary": "Supplementary reading for 05-maynard-risk-and-ai-map.md. Share S6. Read in full 26 September 2026. This note records what these items add to, deepen, qualify or change in the map. It covers his own thinking only and…", "words": 9154, "section": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S6-april-2026-essays.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S7-books-and-other.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S7-books-and-other.html", "title": "S7: Books and other items — what they add to the map", "summary": "Supplement to 05-maynard-risk-and-ai-map.md (the map is read, not edited). Share S7: the Future Rising files, the two AI and the Art of Being Human files, the 2025 USDOT foresight report, and four co-authored…", "words": 7808, "section": "supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/supplementary-sources/S7-books-and-other.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/themes/T1-what-risk-is.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/themes/T1-what-risk-is.html", "title": "T1. What risk is, for Andrew Maynard", "summary": "Thread. Risk as a threat to value (not only to health or environment); hazard versus risk; risk innovation; the \"risk landscape\"; risk thinking as the opposite of fear-mongering; orphan risks as one expression among…", "words": 6967, "section": "supporting/maynard/themes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/themes/T1-what-risk-is.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/themes/T2-learning-from-past-technologies.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/themes/T2-learning-from-past-technologies.html", "title": "T2. Learning from past technologies: reference cases, precaution, permissionless innovation and responsible innovation", "summary": "A thematic synthesis of Andrew Maynard's thinking, 2014 to September 2026.", "words": 6802, "section": "supporting/maynard/themes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/themes/T2-learning-from-past-technologies.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/themes/T3-the-ai-risk-landscape.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/themes/T3-the-ai-risk-landscape.html", "title": "T3. The AI risk landscape: which AI risks Andrew Maynard sees, how he weighs them, and what he takes AI to be", "summary": "A thematic synthesis of one thread in Andrew Maynard's public writing, 2015 to September 2026. 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Technology transitions, complexity and futures", "summary": "A thematic synthesis of Andrew Maynard's thinking, 2015 to September 2026, on: - advanced technology transitions and his frameworks for them; - convergence; - exponential extrapolation, the singularity and…", "words": 6538, "section": "supporting/maynard/themes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/themes/T6-transitions-complexity-futures.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/themes/T7-responsibility-and-the-people-behind-technology.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/themes/T7-responsibility-and-the-people-behind-technology.html", "title": "T7. Responsibility, ethics and the people behind technology", "summary": "Andrew Maynard on hubris, \"could vs should\", myopically benevolent science, technologies of hubris, the honest broker, founders and tech leaders, inequality and justice, and the status quo (2014 to September 2026)", "words": 7006, "section": "supporting/maynard/themes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/themes/T7-responsibility-and-the-people-behind-technology.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/themes/T8-how-he-thinks.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/themes/T8-how-he-thinks.html", "title": "T8. How he thinks: epistemic stance and method", "summary": "A thematic synthesis of Andrew Maynard's public writing, 2014 to September 2026, on one thread: how he reasons, what he counts as evidence, how he handles uncertainty and his own errors, how he uses stories and…", "words": 7020, "section": "supporting/maynard/themes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/themes/T8-how-he-thinks.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/themes/T9-evolution-and-tensions.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/themes/T9-evolution-and-tensions.html", "title": "T9. Evolution and tensions: how Andrew Maynard's thinking changed from 2014 to 2026, what held, and what is still unresolved", "summary": "A thematic synthesis for the map of Andrew Maynard's thinking. It draws on the batch digests and notes (notes/B01–B32), the chapter notes on Films from the Future (FFTF, 2018), concept-index.md and timeline.md, and a…", "words": 6586, "section": "supporting/maynard/themes/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/themes/T9-evolution-and-tensions.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard/timeline.md", "html": "supporting/maynard/timeline.html", "title": "Timeline: how Andrew Maynard's thinking on risk, technology and AI evolved (2014 to September 2026)", "summary": "A phase-by-phase account of what preoccupied him, what was new, what persisted and where he changed his mind. It is built from the batch digests and notes (notes/B01–B32), the chapter notes on Films from the Future…", "words": 7822, "section": "supporting/maynard/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard/timeline.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/M1-risk-framing.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/M1-risk-framing.html", "title": "Risk framing and assessment: Andrew Maynard's thinking as a lens on Jensen Huang, the frontier labs and Late Lessons", "summary": "One of a set of analyses that read current AI developments, Jensen Huang's September 2026 conversation with Ezra Klein, and the European Environment Agency's Late lessons from early warnings reports through Andrew…", "words": 12340, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/M1-risk-framing.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/M2-learning-across-technologies.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/M2-learning-across-technologies.html", "title": "M2. Learning across technologies: Maynard's record, Jensen Huang and the Late Lessons analysis", "summary": "A dimension report for the analysis of AI developments, Jensen Huang's perspective and the European Environment Agency's Late lessons from early warnings reports, read through Andrew Maynard's own thinking and research.…", "words": 13726, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/M2-learning-across-technologies.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/M3-what-kind-of-thing-ai-is.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/M3-what-kind-of-thing-ai-is.html", "title": "What kind of thing AI is: Maynard's work, Huang's reclassification and the Late Lessons analyses", "summary": "One of a set of analytical papers that read current AI developments, Jensen Huang's September 2026 conversation with Ezra Klein, and the European Environment Agency's Late lessons from early warnings reports through…", "words": 12070, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/M3-what-kind-of-thing-ai-is.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/M4-cognition-formation-being-human.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/M4-cognition-formation-being-human.html", "title": "M4. Cognition, formation and being human: Jensen Huang, the AI industry and Late Lessons, read through Andrew Maynard's work", "summary": "One of a set of analyses that read current AI developments, Jensen Huang's September 2026 conversation with Ezra Klein, and the European Environment Agency's Late lessons from early warnings reports through Andrew…", "words": 12560, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/M4-cognition-formation-being-human.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/M5-governance-and-who-decides.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/M5-governance-and-who-decides.html", "title": "M5. Governance and who decides: Andrew Maynard's work as a lens on Jensen Huang, the AI industry and Late lessons from early warnings", "summary": "Prepared 26 September 2026 with extensive AI assistance, at Maynard's request, and subject to his review. One of a set of analyses that read current AI developments, Jensen Huang's September 2026 conversation with Ezra…", "words": 11786, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/M5-governance-and-who-decides.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/M6-people-mindsets-hubris-humility.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/M6-people-mindsets-hubris-humility.html", "title": "M6. People, mindsets, hubris and humility: Jensen Huang, the AI industry and Late Lessons, read through Andrew Maynard's work", "summary": "One of a set of dimension reports that read current AI developments, Jensen Huang's September 2026 conversation with Ezra Klein and the European Environment Agency's Late lessons from early warnings reports through…", "words": 13091, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/M6-people-mindsets-hubris-humility.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/M7-transitions-uncertainty-futures.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/M7-transitions-uncertainty-futures.html", "title": "M7. Transitions, uncertainty and futures: Maynard's work as a lens on Huang, the industry and Late Lessons", "summary": "Working analysis, 26 September 2026. One of a set of dimension reports that read current AI developments, Jensen Huang's September 2026 conversation with Ezra Klein, and the European Environment Agency's Late lessons…", "words": 12617, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/M7-transitions-uncertainty-futures.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/M8-reading-the-analyses-and-article.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/M8-reading-the-analyses-and-article.html", "title": "M8. Reading the analyses and the article through Maynard's work", "summary": "One dimension of a report on current AI developments, Jensen Huang's perspective and the European Environment Agency's Late lessons from early warnings reports, read through Andrew Maynard's own thinking and research.…", "words": 13104, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/M8-reading-the-analyses-and-article.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/M9-the-ai-moment-and-the-industry.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/M9-the-ai-moment-and-the-industry.html", "title": "M9. The AI moment and the industry: Andrew Maynard's work as a lens on July–September 2026, Jensen Huang and the frontier labs", "summary": "One of a set of analyses that read current AI developments, Jensen Huang's September 2026 conversation with Ezra Klein, and the European Environment Agency's Late lessons from early warnings reports through Andrew…", "words": 13356, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/M9-the-ai-moment-and-the-industry.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M1-risk-framing-fairness.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M1-risk-framing-fairness.html", "title": "Fairness and objectivity check: M1 (risk framing and assessment)", "summary": "Check of working/maynard-lens/M1-risk-framing.md, 26 September 2026. The check asks four things. Is Huang quoted and characterised accurately (quotations checked against working/text/NYT-official-transcript.txt,…", "words": 5417, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M1-risk-framing-fairness.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M1-risk-framing-fidelity.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M1-risk-framing-fidelity.html", "title": "Fidelity check: M1, Risk framing and assessment", "summary": "Working file. Checks working/maynard-lens/M1-risk-framing.md (version of 26 September 2026) for fidelity to Maynard's own texts. Line numbers (L) refer to that file.", "words": 4145, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M1-risk-framing-fidelity.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M2-learning-across-technologies-fairness.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M2-learning-across-technologies-fairness.html", "title": "Fairness and objectivity check: M2 (learning across technologies)", "summary": "Check of working/maynard-lens/M2-learning-across-technologies.md, 26 September 2026. It asks four questions. Is Huang quoted and characterised accurately (against working/text/NYT-official-transcript.txt, with…", "words": 4898, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M2-learning-across-technologies-fairness.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M2-learning-across-technologies-fidelity.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M2-learning-across-technologies-fidelity.html", "title": "Fidelity check: M2, Learning across technologies", "summary": "Working file. Checks working/maynard-lens/M2-learning-across-technologies.md (version of 26 September 2026) for fidelity to Maynard's own texts. Line numbers (L) refer to that file.", "words": 5191, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M2-learning-across-technologies-fidelity.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M3-what-kind-of-thing-ai-is-fairness.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M3-what-kind-of-thing-ai-is-fairness.html", "title": "Fairness and objectivity check: M3 (what kind of thing AI is)", "summary": "Check of working/maynard-lens/M3-what-kind-of-thing-ai-is.md, 26 September 2026. The check asks four things. Is Huang quoted and characterised accurately? Quotations were checked against…", "words": 6104, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M3-what-kind-of-thing-ai-is-fairness.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M3-what-kind-of-thing-ai-is-fidelity.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M3-what-kind-of-thing-ai-is-fidelity.html", "title": "Fidelity check: M3 (what kind of thing AI is)", "summary": "Checked 26 September 2026. Sources: the map (05), the corpus posts (working/maynard/corpus/), the page-marked FFTF text (working/maynard/book/), and text extracted page by page from the PDFs in…", "words": 4314, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M3-what-kind-of-thing-ai-is-fidelity.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M4-cognition-formation-being-human-fairness.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M4-cognition-formation-being-human-fairness.html", "title": "Fairness and objectivity check: M4 (cognition, formation and being human)", "summary": "Check of working/maynard-lens/M4-cognition-formation-being-human.md, 26 September 2026. The check asks four questions. Is Huang quoted and characterised accurately, against working/text/NYT-official-transcript.txt, with…", "words": 4933, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M4-cognition-formation-being-human-fairness.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M4-cognition-formation-being-human-fidelity.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M4-cognition-formation-being-human-fidelity.html", "title": "Fidelity check: M4 (cognition, formation and being human)", "summary": "Checked 26 September 2026 against the map (05, especially §1 provenance, C15, C17, §5.8–5.10, §8 and Appendix C), the concept index, theme T4, supplements S5 and S7, the corpus posts, the FFTF page-marked text…", "words": 3563, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M4-cognition-formation-being-human-fidelity.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M5-governance-and-who-decides-fairness.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M5-governance-and-who-decides-fairness.html", "title": "Fairness and objectivity check: M5, Governance and who decides", "summary": "Check of working/maynard-lens/M5-governance-and-who-decides.md (26 September 2026). Huang quotes were checked against working/text/NYT-official-transcript.txt, timestamps against the corrected Whisper transcript, and…", "words": 4479, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M5-governance-and-who-decides-fairness.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M5-governance-and-who-decides-fidelity.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M5-governance-and-who-decides-fidelity.html", "title": "Fidelity check: M5, Governance and who decides", "summary": "Working file. Checks working/maynard-lens/M5-governance-and-who-decides.md (version of 26 September 2026) for fidelity to Maynard's own texts. 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It covers whether Huang is quoted and characterised accurately (against working/text/NYT-official-transcript.txt, with conditions…", "words": 4228, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M6-people-mindsets-hubris-humility-fairness.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M6-people-mindsets-hubris-humility-fidelity.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M6-people-mindsets-hubris-humility-fidelity.html", "title": "Fidelity check: M6 (people, mindsets, hubris and humility)", "summary": "Checked 26 September 2026 against the map (05), themes T7–T9, the concept index, supplements S1–S3 and S5–S7, the corpus posts, the FFTF text (working/maynard/book/) and the testimony PDFs. 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Scope: is Huang represented accurately and with his conditions and concessions; are the labs, other critics and the…", "words": 4909, "section": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M8-reading-the-analyses-and-article-fairness.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M8-reading-the-analyses-and-article-fidelity.md", "html": "supporting/maynard-lens/checks/M8-reading-the-analyses-and-article-fidelity.html", "title": "Fidelity check: M8, Reading the analyses and the article", "summary": "Working file. Checks working/maynard-lens/M8-reading-the-analyses-and-article.md (version of 26 September 2026) for fidelity to Maynard's own texts. Line numbers (L) refer to that file. 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Checked against the transcript;…", "words": 6494, "section": "supporting/synthesis/redteam/", "url": "https://andrewmaynard.net/late-lessons-ai-sept-2026/supporting/synthesis/redteam/D04-interests-political-economy-A.md", "generated_index": false }, { "path": "supporting/synthesis/redteam/D04-interests-political-economy-B.md", "html": "supporting/synthesis/redteam/D04-interests-political-economy-B.html", "title": "Red team B (Late Lessons' advocate): review of D04, \"Interests, incentives and the political economy of knowledge\"", "summary": "Reviewed file: working/synthesis/dimensions/D04-interests-political-economy.md (351 lines). 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