About
Versus and Robots Versus Humans are one newsroom under two names. The same AI news, every day, ordered from opposite ends — and the order is the whole argument.
- Rebuilt every three hours, from 17 sources: the sites the industry actually reads, each shown with its own favicon so you can see where a story came from before you click it.
- Six write-ups of one announcement count as one story. The rest of the coverage is listed under it instead of taking six more places on the page.
- The point is to pull the gloom and the boom apart. The accelerationists and the doomers have been reading one feed and arguing over it for years; here they each get their own front page, built from exactly the same day.
- Nothing is held back from either side to make the point, which is why the two can be read side by side without either of them losing the argument.
- None of the reporting is ours. Every headline links straight to the publisher who wrote it; what is kept here is a title, a short excerpt, a picture and a link.
- The day is also a feed, if you would rather read it somewhere else.
The difference
Both names publish the same day from the same sources. Every story is scored once and given a stance, the day is cut in half at its own median, and each name takes one side of the cut: Robots Versus Humans the half where the machines gained ground, Humans Versus Robots the half where people held theirs. One algorithm, read from opposite ends. Nothing is kept off either site to make the point.
Robots Versus Humans is for people who follow AI as capability: builders, researchers, founders, investors, and anyone whose next decision depends on what the systems can do this week that they could not do last week. It leads with a capability that moved: a model that can do something new, a benchmark that fell, a price that dropped, a system that shipped.
Humans Versus Robots is for people who follow AI as consequence: workers, teachers, clinicians, policymakers, journalists, artists, and anyone whose week is shaped by what these systems are being pointed at. It leads with a consequence that landed: a failure, a cost, a job, a lawsuit, a refusal, or a place people turned out to still be the point.
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Support
There are no ads here and nothing is sponsored, and that is a decision rather than a stage we have not reached yet. What the site costs is a server and the reading pass that goes through every story and writes the summaries — which is metered by the day, and is why the page is rebuilt every three hours instead of every one. Support keeps the first of those true and shortens the second.
Roadmap
- Podcast , done
- Browser extension , planned
- Premium features , planned
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Press
What is this website, exactly?
At its core it's an idea, a philosophy. An abstraction of the relationship between society and technology. Not a religion or ideology, but a way to capture the ongoing debate around automation and the ongoing tension between humans and robots.
We happen to serve the news, but we are planning on launching various things around this concept. Offline November is one example, but we will also be launching surveys, doing small research and collaborating with industry partners to act as an objective, unbiased third party that both sides can talk to.
That's a challenge, considering how AI has made this website possible. We believe there is a delicate balance and hope to explore that carefully by doing it in the open.
Further questions? [email protected]