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  1. The TWIML AI Podcast #776: Do AI Tokenomics Matter More Than Model Benchmarks?, September 9, 2026. Podcast appearance
  2. Sudhof, Moritz and Christopher Potts. 2026. Adversarial protocol review for reliable agentic scientific research. Bigspin blog, August 3, 2026. [bibtex] Blog post
  3. Potts, Christopher. 2026. The fragile foundations of CoT monitoring. Personal blog, July 27, 2026. [bibtex] Blog post
  4. Linear Digressions: Invisible LLM Failures and AI Fluency with Chris Potts, July 20, 2026. Podcast appearance
  5. Potts, Christopher Potts. 2026. Interference. Rap lyrics, song, and music video, July 5, 2026. [bibtex] Music
  6. Potts, Christopher Potts. 2026. Methodological disaster zone. Rap lyrics and associated annotations, July 4, 2026. [bibtex] Music
  7. Intelligent Machines #877: Model Now Available – The Race for Smarter, Freer AI Models, July 1, 2026. Podcast appearance
  8. Hase, Peter and Christopher Potts. 2026. CoT monitoring: Where does a hot safety problem come from? The Stanford AI Lab blog, June 18, 2026. [bibtex] Blog post
  9. Sudhof, Moritz and Christopher Potts. 2026. The decline of token-level purchasing power. Bigspin blog, June 8, 2026. [bibtex] Blog post
  10. Sudhof, Moritz and Christopher Potts. 2026. The mystery of Opus 4.6’s sudden tokenflation. Bigspin blog, June 4, 2026. [bibtex] Blog post
  11. Potts, Christopher. 2026. AI Creativity Summit @ Gimble Viewpoint. Short story, May 25, 2026. [bibtex] Fiction
  12. Potts, Christopher. 2026. Seven levels of enlightenment in LLM annotation (based on a true story). Bigspin blog, May 12, 2026. [bibtex] Blog post
  13. Potts, Christopher. 2026. The story of Ollie Not Found. Bigspin blog, April 10, 2026. [bibtex] Blog post
  14. Potts, Christopher. 2026. Invisible failures in human–AI interactions. Bigspin blog, March 17, 2026. [bibtex] Blog post
  15. Potts, Christopher. 2026. The archai of palimpsestic memorization. Personal blog, January 18, 2026. [bibtex] Blog post
  16. Potts, Christopher. 2026. The two greatest television series endings: Succession and The Sopranos. Personal blog, January 10, 2026. [bibtex] Blog post
  17. Potts, Christopher. 2025. The fundamental dishonesty of One Battle After Another. Movie review, December 29, 2025. [bibtex] Blog post
  18. Potts, Christopher. 2025. The age-old comedy of GenAI development. Bigspin blog, November 9, 2025. [bibtex] Blog post
  19. Potts, Christopher. 2025. A love letter to DSPy. Bigspin blog, October 16, 2025. [bibtex] Blog post
  20. Potts, Christopher. 2025. Prompt optimizers, once declared dead, are the best tool for improving your GenAI system. Bigspin blog, October 14, 2025. [bibtex] Blog post
  21. Potts, Christopher. 2025. Are we all over-using the frontier LLMs? Bigspin blog, September 18, 2025. [bibtex] Blog post
  22. Potts, Christopher. 2025. Closing the gap between evaluations and system improvements. Bigspin blog, September 11, 2025. [bibtex] Blog post
  23. Potts, Christopher. 2025. Now that even the humblest prompt is an “agent”, we can focus on what really matters. Bigspin blog, September 4, 2025. [bibtex] Blog post
  24. Potts, Christopher. 2025. Probable cause hearing in the matter of State of California versus walters2112. Short story, August 28, 2025. [bibtex] Fiction
  25. Potts, Christopher. 2025. Superforecasting the future of software development. Bigspin blog, August 26, 2025. [bibtex] Blog post
  26. Potts, Christopher. 2025. The soul of a new LLM. Bigspin blog, August 14, 2025. [bibtex] Blog post
  27. Potts, Christopher. 2025. Claude 4.1, Genie 3, and GPT-5 are compound AI systems, not simply models. Bigspin blog, August 12, 2025. [bibtex] Blog post
  28. Potts, Christopher. 2025. Assessing skeptical views of interpretability research. Personal blog, August 8, 2025. [bibtex] Blog post
  29. Potts, Christopher. 2025. Prompting tricks are dead, but prompts matter more than ever before. Bigspin blog, August 7, 2025. [bibtex] Blog post
  30. Huang, Jing; Diyi Yang; Christopher Potts. 2025. Demystifying verbatim memorization in large language models. The Stanford AI Lab blog, April 28, 2025. [bibtex] Blog post
  31. Zhong, Peter Yong; Haoze He; Omar Khattab; Christopher Potts; Matei Zaharia; and Heather Miller. 2024. A guide to Large Language Model abstractions. Two Sigma blog, January 16, 2024. [bibtex] Blog post
  32. Zaharia, Matei; Omar Khattab; Lingjiao Chen; Jared Quincy Davis; Heather Miller; Christopher Potts; James Zou; Michael Carbin; Jonathan Frankle; Naveen Rao; and Ali Ghodsi. 2024. The shift from models to Compound AI Systems. Berkeley AI Research blog, February 18, 2024. [bibtex] Blog post
  33. Rabbit Hole Research: On meaning, feat. Chris Potts | Traces, Appendix 1, September 27, 2023. Podcast appearance
  34. Robinson’s Podcast #84: Chris Potts: Semantics, Pragmatics, and ChatGPT, May 2, 2023. Podcast appearance
  35. DiTalks: Chris Potts sees AI language models moving towards understanding, large gaps to be resolved, March 30, 2023. Podcast appearance
  36. Potts, Christopher. 2023. Against University-wide policies concerning AI writing assistants. Medium post, February 18, 2023. [bibtex] Blog post
  37. Geiger, Atticus; Zhengxuan Wu; Karel D'Oosterlinck; Elisa Kreiss; Noah D. Goodman; Thomas Icard; and Christopher Potts. 2022. Faithful, interpretable model explanations via causal abstraction. The Stanford AI Lab blog, October 31, 2022. [bibtex] Blog post
  38. Adaptive Agents Group. 2021. The Shibboleth Rule for Artificial Agents. Stanford HAI Blog, August 10, 2021. [bibtex] Blog post
  39. Khattab, Omar; Christopher Potts; and Matei Zaharia. 2021. A moderate proposal for radically better AI-powered Web search. Stanford HAI blog, July 6, 2021. [bibtex] Blog post
  40. Potts, Christopher. 2020. Is it possible for language models to achieve language understanding? Medium post, October 5, 2020. [bibtex] Blog post