Craig S. Smith covers AI and hosts the Eye on A.I. podcast. He is a former correspondent and executive at The New York Times, where he covered global events for over two decades. He has been contributing to Forbes since 2021, writing about AI’s impact on society in articles such as "Mom, Dad, I Want to Be a Prompt Engineer", and the philosophical questions raised by AI including, "What Exactly Do Large Language Models Really Understand?" He also writes about the geopolitics of AI including "China's AI Implementation Is Edging Ahead of the U.S." As Eye on A.I. host, Craig interviews leading experts in the field, from Geoff Hinton to Ilya Sutskever. Craig holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia University. He lives in Chappaqua, NY. Follow Craig for continued coverage of AI.
China's AI Self-Sufficiency Push Is Challenging U.S. Dominance
The rivalry between the United States and China over AI has evolved into a contest over global governance, digital standards and the future architecture of the internet.
How Bad Traits Can Spread Unseen In AI
LLMs can inherit traits beneath the surface, passed silently from one model to another, concealed in the patterns of output, undetectable.
An AI Film Festival And The Multiverse Engine
AI video generation has fundamentally transformed filmmaking, dramatically lowering barriers to entry and enabling new forms of creative expression.
The Secret Life of Servers: Chronic Idleness While Waiting For A Job
Decentralized digital marketplaces allow users to lease excess computational capacity at half or less the price of big cloud providers
How A Simple Protocol Is Changing Everything About AI
Model Context Protocol, or MPC, is an open protocol that enables seamless integration between LLM applications and external data sources and tools.