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Understanding AI and Thinking Critically About It
First edition, 2026. The cases, laws and pages in the book were checked through October 2026.
Corrections and later developments
First edition, 2026. No corrections yet. Each correction to the printed edition is added here with its date: the chapter, the line as printed, the line as it should read, and why.
The forty chapters and their sources
- Who wrote the rule
- The robot and the protein
- Every word a door
- A six for an eight
- Your uncle's video
- Two poems, one birthday
- The face in the window
- The tenant's citation
- Six cases that never were
- The chopped axis
- Where the checking stops
- The lamp and the rule
- The letter to the bureau
- The postcard
- Five files in a folder
- A file from a colleague
- Five drops
- The statement at month's end
- Two models went dark
- A hammer's politics
- The sentence about credit
- About 29,700 results
- Eight stations in three cities
- A thousand papers unread
- Ten abstracts, one paragraph
- A sheet in the pile
- Saturday, three in the morning
- Eighteen names under one button
- Leaves up, roots down
- The downloads folder
- The airline's chat
- Forty minutes after applying
- A statement of reasons
- Who sets the table
- Four cases, no cues
- Where the look goes
- Twenty-one working days
- Six of my own
- The poems' site, twice
- The two lines