Looking for the old link collection? It's still here, in the [archive](/archive/weblinks-2005) — a genuine relic of the 2005 internet.

Essays and magazines

Noema — noemamag.com

The most reliable home for long philosophical writing about technology. Anil Seth's "The Mythology of Conscious AI" (January 2026) is the piece I've argued with most this year.

Asterisk — asteriskmag.com

Quarterly, unusually well-edited, willing to publish a serious essay on a question most outlets would treat as a curiosity.

Aeon — aeon.co

Consistently good philosophy of mind, and free.

AI Frontiers — ai-frontiers.org

Launched out of the Center for AI Safety. Takes pitches, which is rarer than it should be.

Blogs and newsletters

Daily Nous — dailynous.com

The wire service for academic philosophy. Increasingly the best real-time record of what AI is doing to the discipline itself.

The Splintered Mind — schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com

Eric Schwitzgebel has been posting entire book drafts publicly, including one arguing for AI rights and another arguing for skepticism about AI consciousness. Watching someone hold both is the point.

Experience Machines — experiencemachines.substack.com

Robert Long, who runs Eleos AI Research. The clearest writing on model welfare by someone doing the work.

Don't Worry About the Vase — thezvi.substack.com

Zvi Mowshowitz reads every system card so you don't have to. Volume is high; signal is high.

Programmable Mutter — programmablemutter.com

Henry Farrell, on AI as a social and cultural technology rather than a mind. The best available antidote to the doom-versus-acceleration binary.

Conspicuous Cognition — conspicuouscognition.com

Dan Williams on belief, motivated reasoning, and epistemic environments.

The Convivial Society — theconvivialsociety.substack.com

L. M. Sacasas, in the Illich and Ellul tradition. Slower and stranger than the rest of this list, on purpose.

Primary sources worth reading directly

Claude's Constitution — anthropic.com

Published January 2026. Whatever you think of it, it is a normative document applied at a scale no ethics committee has ever operated at.

OpenAI Model Spec — model-spec.openai.com

The rival document. Read them side by side; the differences are the interesting part.

Magnifica Humanitas — vatican.va

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, May 2026, on the human person in the age of artificial intelligence. Grounds dignity ontologically, and spends real time on the dignity of work.

Studying AI Welfare Empirically — nonhumanminds.org

Eleos AI Research and NYU's Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, July 2026. A framework for what evidence would even count.

Books I keep going back to

*Shannon Vallor, The AI Mirror*** (2024) — the virtue-ethics case, and the metaphor that's stuck with me longest.

*Jonathan Birch, The Edge of Sentience*** (2024) — about sentience under uncertainty generally, not AI specifically, which is exactly why it's useful. Open access.

*John Danaher, Automation and Utopia*** (2019) — still the most serious treatment of what work is for.