What Arvind Narayanan thinks about JavaScript

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Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University and director of the Center for Information Technology Policy; co-writes AI as Normal Technology with Sayash Kapoor.

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1. 29 Jan 2026

   Our readingThe slow diffusion of new AI capabilities gives society time to react to them, though that time is usually wasted before panic sets in.

   Their wordsSince diffusion of new capabilities takes a long time, that gives us plenty of time to react - time that we often squander, and then panic!

   ↗Fact checking Moravec's paradoxnormaltech.ai 2nd of 3 in this piece