Most of the #AI newsletters you can sign up for today are for data scientists and machine learning engineers. They are meant to keep up-to-date AI practitioners and AI enthusiasts about academic papers, tools to develop AI models, etc.

I want to do something else.

The newsletter I’m launching is called Synthetic Work. It’s for everybody (especially people that are not AI practitioners or enthusiasts), and it’s focused on a macroscopic question:

Is artificial intelligence helping humans do their jobs better, or is it stealing those jobs?

Is it changing the type of jobs we do? Or is it doing nothing at all and we are all wasting time here?

You can read a lot more about the mission of the newsletter, and what I want and don’t want to do with it, on the official website:

https://t.co/QzcGe16gwo

Why I am doing this?

Twenty years ago, I started a media project that became an industry-wide success. I was a kid with practically no experience and I could barely speak English (still struggling there…).

Yet, that project became the leading publication in the nascent virtualization industry, recording over 7 million visitors per year. It’s not much by today’s standards, but it was quite a lot for a one-kid-operation in 2003.

I didn’t know what I was doing, but I felt that the emerging technology I was interested in would be transformative and I had to pay attention.

I very rarely felt in the same way about any other emerging technology I’ve seen in these 20 years.

But I feel in that way about modern artificial intelligence. In fact, I feel stronger about AI than I ever did about virtualization or cloud computing.

Exactly one month ago, I told you that I left Red Hat. There, I used to run a newsletter, too (completely different topics).

And over the years, I’ve been submerged with emails of appreciation from readers.

More importantly, while I worked on large language models during my last year in Red Hat, I got even more convinced that AI might have a profound impact on the way we work & how we define our jobs.

This newsletter is a way for me to say “This is something you should really pay attention to.”
It’s an experiment. It might work. It might not. There are other things I’m working on that I’ll unveil soon. For now, take a look at this one. See if it makes sense & it’s helpful to u

So far, I’ve published online Issue #0, where I explain what you should expect to read going forward. I’ll start sending out the actual newsletter next week.

Again: https://t.co/QzcGe16gwo