Course Materials · Week 5
Persuading Stakeholders
Thu, Feb 25
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Required readings
In class, we will have a quiz on these readings.
Full reading list
21 items · Open in the Library →Choosing the Format
- RecommendedPowerPoint Is Evil (5 min)Edward Tufte (2003)
- Recommended2017 Letter to Shareholders (“High Standards” and “Six-Page Narratives”) (6 min)Jeff Bezos (2018)
- OptionalHow to Speak (1 hr 4 min)Patrick Winston (2019)
Drafting with AI
- RecommendedWrites and Write-Nots (3 min)Paul Graham (2024)
- RecommendedAI-Generated ‘Workslop’ Is Destroying Productivity and Teams, Researchers Say (7 min)Jennifer Liu (2025)
- OptionalWhy Does A.I. Write Like … That? (20 min)Sam Kriss (2025)
Spotting AI Writing
- RecommendedDo AI Detectors Work Well Enough to Trust? (5 min)Matt Robinson (2025)
- RecommendedAI Writing Has Already Begun to Appear on the Opinion Pages (5 min)Reed Albergotti (2026)
- RecommendedSigns of AI Writing (“Language and Grammar” and “Style”) (10 min)Wikipedia editors (n.d.)
- OptionalArtificial Writing and Automated Detection (paper)Brian Jabarian and Alex Imas (2025)
- OptionalWhy AI Detection Fails for Academic Integrity (paper)Jonathan A. Karr Jr., Grigorii Khvatskii, Ting Hua, and Nitesh V. Chawla (2026)
Writing for Machine Readers
- RecommendedHow to Talk When a Machine Is Listening: Corporate Disclosure in the Age of AI (6 min)Sean Cao, Wei Jiang, Baozhong Yang, and Alan L. Zhang (2020)
- RecommendedShould You Be Writing for the AIs? (3 min)Tyler Cowen (2025)
- OptionalHow to Talk When a Machine Is Listening (Full Paper) (paper)Sean Cao, Wei Jiang, Baozhong Yang, and Alan L. Zhang (2023)
- OptionalThe /llms.txt File (8 min)Jeremy Howard (2024)
Handing Over the Work
- RequiredYour Job Is to Deliver Code You Have Proven to Work (5 min)Simon Willison (2025)
- RecommendedThe Importance of Excel (5 min)James Kwak (2013)
- OptionalFinancial Modelling Code (26 min)ICAEW (2024)
Defending the Analysis
- RequiredCentaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier (10 min)Ethan Mollick (2023)
- RecommendedJudge Sanctions Lawyers for Brief Written by A.I. with Fake Citations (2 min)Dan Mangan (2023)
- OptionalNavigating the Jagged Technological Frontier (paper)Fabrizio Dell’Acqua, Ethan Mollick, and others (2023)