The Best Articles, Videos, and Newsletters in Artificial Intelligence
The most useful articles, videos, and newsletters in Artificial Intelligence from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
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Top 5 Artificial Intelligence Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Artificial Intelligence by Refind users in 2026 so far.
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How can you tell when AI is being reliable?
Ethan Mollick is an associate professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches entrepreneurship and innovation. He is reco...
AI: a blessing or curse for humanity?
Artificial intelligence is playing an ever-increasing role in our lives. But will this prove to be a blessing for humanity, or have we created a monster? We ...
ANYmal can do parkour and walk across rubble
The quadrupedal robot ANYmal went back to school and has learned a lot. ETH Zurich researchers used machine learning to teach it new skills: the robot can no...
Max Jaderberg: How AI is saving billions of years of human research time
Can AI compress the yearslong research time of a PhD into seconds? Research scientist Max Jaderberg explores how “AI analogs” simulate real-world lab work with staggering speed and scale, unlocking…
Vinciane Beauchene: Will AI take your job in the next 10 years? Wrong question
As AI agents take over more tasks at work, the question isn’t whether or not humans matter — it’s how we make our impact count. Leadership expert Vinciane Beauchene challenges some commonly held…
What is ...?
New to Artificial Intelligence? These articles make an excellent introduction.
Free AI for Beginners Course
Microsoft has put together an AI course for beginners, consisting of a 12 week, 24 lesson curriculum, available for free to all.
«The aptly-named Artificial Intelligence for Beginners is put together by Microsoft Azure Cloud Advocates, and consists of a 12 week, 24 lesson curriculum designed to introduce learners to the wonderful world of AI.»
An Introduction to AI and Economics
So far, the adoption rate of methods of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) has been quite uneven across the economics profession. The uptake of these methods has been heavily…
What is Neural Network? How does it understand things?
One of our great scientists, Stephen Hawking, said that “The development of full Artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human...
A beginner's guide to global artificial intelligence policy
Neural's long-running Begginer's Guide To Artificial Intelligence gets a modern update discussing policy and regulation around the globe.
«Putin, speaking to Russian students in 2017, said “whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.”»
How to ...?
How to Scale AI in Your Organization
Tech-savvy companies have started to adopt a new discipline: machine learning operations, or MLOps.
How to create space for ethics in AI
We can't wait for tech regulation and competition reform to ensure ethical AI. We need to move forward now.
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Why organisms are more than machines
Sixty years ago, a little-known philosopher challenged how science understands life. His perspective is finding new relevance in the age of AI.
Is AI really ‘intelligent’? This philosopher says yes
Blaise Agüera y Arcus argues that prediction is the fundamental principle behind intelligence and “may be the whole story”.
Why Warren Buffett’s superpower is an Achilles heel for AI
The great investor instinctively knew that humans are much smarter than computers in volatile environments. So he bet on common sense.
«Innovation obsolesces yesterday. In business, the data you gathered from last quarter can therefore be used to calculate … last quarter.»
How to write a coaching/learning prompt
An AI like Claude is actually a pretty good fortune cookie. You can ask a simple question and get a simple answer, sometimes a profound one. But this is a waste of the tool’s potential. The A…
Scientists use machine learning to control specific brain circuits
A Japanese research team has developed YORU, an AI tool that detects animal social behaviors as distinct visual objects. This open-source software allows biologists to trigger real-time neural…
Short Articles
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5 Strategies to Learn Better with AI (and Traps to Avoid)
Recently, I shared my predictions about how AI will change the process of learning. In short, I expect that AI will reduce the need for many skills, potentially dumbing down the typical user. Just as…
Is AI making us stupid?
Artificial intelligence can execute tasks in seconds that once took humans hours, if not days to complete. While this may be great for productivity, some researchers are concerned that our increasing…
How The Doux uses AI to engage community
How The Doux's CEO and co-founder is using AI to do community-centered marketing
Will AI Make Us Stupid?
I’ve been thinking a lot about how AI is going to affect the future of learning. If you’re just arriving, I’ve previously written about which sorts of skills will matter in an AI future and vibe…
AI ‘dreams’ up new realities. How does this impact the way we understand our own dreaming?
Data Dreams: Art and AI is at the Museum of Contemporary Art brings together artists who make visible the tensions of ever-present AI.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Artificial Intelligence.
The 25 Most Interesting Ideas I've Found in 2025 (So Far)
Charts and history lessons—across culture, politics, AI, economics, health, science, and the long story of progress
The End of Programming as We Know It
There’s a lot of chatter in the media that software developers will soon lose their jobs to AI. I don’t buy it. It is not the end of programming. It is the end of programming as we know it today. That…
The 26 Most Important Ideas For 2026
Modern trends and history lessons—across culture, politics, AI, economics, science, and the long story of progress. But first: an announcement!
What's Still Worth Learning in a World With AI?
Which skills and careers are still going to pay off in a world of ever-present AI? Some preliminary thoughts...
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