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The rebel alliance
Grace Carney – Jul 14, 2025
This blog is co-authored with Zoe Weinberg and Matt Hawes at ex/ante , and is a follow-up to our first blog post on the topic, ' You don't own your memory .' We need an open architecture that puts us [...] Read more
You don’t own your memory
Grace Carney – Jul 7, 2025
This blog is co-authored with ex/ante . Who will own our digital memory ? This question has become increasingly urgent as ChatGPT and Claude ask us to entrust more and more of our memories to their platforms. Frontier AI models [...] Read more
The DC Revolution Will Not Be Centralized
Grace Carney – Mar 27, 2025
A quiet insurgency is rewiring our world. We're hitting a critical moment when the inefficiency of constant AC/DC conversion is becoming too convoluted to ignore, especially as data centers strain capacity, renewable projects multiply, and extreme weather exposes grid vulnerabilities. [...] Read more
What we’ve learned about AI learning
Grace Carney – Sep 23, 2024
It's been over a year since Albert shared his vision for 'tutors for everyone,' and we're all the more convinced that AI will not only make knowledge more accessible, but also unlock radically new learning experiences. The sad truth is [...] Read more
Toward a social theory of venture
Grace Carney – Sep 3, 2024
To practice venture is to practice social theory. It's not novel to point out that to really understand what’s happening in today’s technology market, we must situate it within its broader societal context. Yet during periods of intense technological innovation [...] Read more
Does AI change how much my data is worth?
Grace Carney – Jul 1, 2024
Placing financial value on an individual’s personal data, let alone selling it, has always felt like a futile exercise. While ‘big data’ is a hot commodity, my own personal dataset has seemed pretty worthless commercially. But as more LLMs announce [...] Read more
Deep reals
Grace Carney – May 31, 2024
It’s never been more difficult to tell whether what we see online is real or fake. AI bots are being paid to leave fake reddit comments, Drake resurrected Tupac in a rap verse, and Morgan Freeman is still not Morgan [...] Read more
Deep reals
Grace Carney – May 30, 2024
This post was originally published on the USV blog and can be found here . It’s never been more difficult to tell whether what we see online is real or fake. AI bots are being paid to leave fake reddit [...] Read more
Deep reals
Grace Carney – May 30, 2024
This post was originally published on the USV blog and can be found here . It’s never been more difficult to tell whether what we see online is real or fake. AI bots are being paid to leave fake reddit [...] Read more