Beautiful Particulars
How AI's attention to the smallest of differences is reshaping our biggest ideas
How AI's attention to the smallest of differences is reshaping our biggest ideas
Beautiful Particulars reframes artificial intelligence in terms of how it "sees" the world as the tiny differences among things
This changes everything, for the West has long taken sprawling universal truths and generalizations as the highest truths. From medicine to art, from science to everyday decisions, from morality to humor to the nature of reality, this book shows — in simple terms and good humor — how AI may be bringing our ideas closer to our actual experience.
Beautiful Particulars is set to change our current conversation about this amazing, and risky, new technology.
Coming Oct. 2026 from MIT Press.
David Weinberger is a writer with a philosophy Ph.D. and forty years working in cutting-edge tech companies, most recently as a writer-in-residence in Google Responsible AI groups. He has been a member of Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for two decades, a fellow at the Harvard Shorenstein Journalism Center, a State Department Franklin Fellow, and is currently a researcher at Harvard's metaLAB group.
In countless articles and five award-winning books, David has been a thought leader in looking at how the most important technologies of our times are affecting how we understand ourselves and our world.
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