Bibliography / reading list
The bibliography/reading list for the Spite House zine/talk
- $2 trillion in new revenue needed to fund AI’s scaling trend, Bain & Company
- Against the protection of stocking frames, Ethan Marcotte
- AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All, WIRED
- Algorithms of oppression: how search engines reinforce racism, Safiya Umoja Noble
- AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it, MIT Technology Review, Mat Honan
- Atlas of AI, Kate Crawford
- ChatGPT’s Atlas: The Browser That’s Anti-Web, Anil Dash
- Cocomelon for adults, Search Engine
- Colossus 1, Search Engine
- Colossus 2, Search Engine
- DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis + Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin: AGI by 2030?, Alex Kantrowitz, YouTube
- Disintermediation is a wake-up call for our sector, Third Sector, Zoe Amar
- Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact, Adam Zewe, MIT
- Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results, Pew Research
- Google’s Nick Fox: Reinventing Search with AI Mode, AI Overviews, and Agents, AI Inside, YouTube
- Groundbreaking BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants, BBC
- Health charities publish report on Google AI search results, Patient Information Forum
- How are Google’s AI Overviews affecting search traffic for arts and culture websites?, Cultural Content, Beth Downs and Chris Unitt
- How to Reduce the Risk of Disintermediation on Your Platform, HBR
- Is Google about to destroy the web?, BBC, Thomas Germain
- It’s the End of the Web as We Know It (And I Feel Fine), MG Siegler, Spyglass
- Just Keep Writing, Soft Coded, Danielle McClune
- Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory, BBC
- MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing, Sheryl Estrada, Fortune
- Once the AI bubble pops, we’ll all suffer. Could that be better than letting it grow unabated?, Eduardo Porter, The Guardian
- Searches up, traffic down: How the AI search cliff impacted 17 nonprofits, M+R
- Social Quitting, Cory Doctorow
- Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off?, Eliot Brown & Robbie Whelan, Wall Street Journal
- Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, Yannis Varoufakis
- The 2026 AEO / GEO Benchmarks Report, Conductor
- The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an End, John Herrman, NY Mag
- The era of free websites is coming to an end and there’s nothing you can do about it, Lance Ulanoff, TechRadar
- The Hater’s Guide To The AI Bubble, Where’s your ed at
- The impact of AI on online support and advice, Content at Scope, Stephanie Coulshed
- The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation, McKinsey
- The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence, Timnit Gebru & Émile P. Torres
- This Is How the AI Bubble Bursts, Yale Insights
- We deserve better than an AI-powered future, Jane Ruffino
- What we mean when we talk about an AI ‘bubble’, World Economic Forum
- Why I gave the world wide web away for free, The Guardian
- Yes, everything online sucks now—but it doesn’t have to, Ars Technica