The Artificial Advantage / Notes and Sources

Notes and Sources

From The Artificial Advantage

Every study and report the book cites, in the same order as Notes and Sources at the back of the book, with a working link to each one. When a publisher has moved a page or replaced it with a newer edition, the link below goes to the edition the book quotes. Links checked 2026-09-23.

Chapter 13 asks you to check a claim at its source before you rely on it. This page is where you can do that for every claim in the book.

Altman (2025) The Gentle Singularity

Cited in: Notes; Appendix H

blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity

Bick, Blandin and Deming (2024) The Rapid Adoption of Generative AI

Cited in: Notes

doi.org/10.20955/wp.2024.027

Also: stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2025/feb/impact-generative-ai-work-productivity

Borchetta (2026) Commencement address, Middle Tennessee State University, May 2026

Cited in: Notes (book body references the speech)

fox10phoenix.com/news/scott-borchetta-ai-boo-commencement-speech (news report)

Brynjolfsson, Li and Raymond (2025) Generative AI at Work

Cited in: Notes

doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjae044

Also: nber.org/papers/w31161

DeepSeek (2025) DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

Cited in: Notes; Chapter 7

arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948

Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock (2024) GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs

Cited in: Notes

doi.org/10.1126/science.adj0998

Elsworth et al. (2025) Measuring the environmental impact of delivering AI at Google Scale

Cited in: Notes; Appendix H

arxiv.org/abs/2508.15734

Google (2025) 2025 Environmental Report

Cited in: Notes; Appendix H

sustainability.google/reports/google-2025-environmental-report

Also: gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/google-2025-environmental-report.pdf

International Energy Agency (2025) Energy and AI

Cited in: Notes; Appendix H

iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai

Also: iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/executive-summary

Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Hinton (2012) ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Cited in: Notes

proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2012/hash/c399862d3b9d6b76c8436e924a68c45b-Abstract.html

Li, Yang, Islam and Ren (2023) Making AI Less "Thirsty": Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models

Cited in: Notes; Appendix H

arxiv.org/abs/2304.03271

Also: doi.org/10.1145/3724499

McKinsey & Company (2025) The state of AI in 2025 (Global Survey, 5 November 2025)

Cited in: Notes

web.archive.org/web/20251215202754/https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai (archived copy of the edition the book quotes)

Microsoft (2025) 2025 Environmental Sustainability Report

Cited in: Notes; Appendix H

cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/content/microsoftcorp/microsoft/msc/documents/presentations/CSR/2025-Microsoft-Environmental-Sustainability-Report-PDF.pdf

Also: blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/05/29/environmental-sustainability-report

MSCI (2025) When AI Meets Water Scarcity: Data Centers in a Thirsty World

Cited in: Notes; Appendix H

msci.com/research-and-insights/blog-post/when-ai-meets-water-scarcity-data-centers-in-a-thirsty-world

PwC (2025) The Fearless Future: 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer

Cited in: Notes

pwc.com/gx/en/issues/artificial-intelligence/job-barometer/2025/report.pdf

Also: pwc.com/gx/en/news-room/press-releases/2025/ai-linked-to-a-fourfold-increase-in-productivity-growth.html

Statistics Canada (2025) Analysis on artificial intelligence use by businesses in Canada, second quarter of 2025

Cited in: Notes

www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-621-m/11-621-m2025008-eng.htm

Statistics Canada (2026) Analysis on artificial intelligence use by businesses in Canada, second quarter of 2026

Cited in: Notes

www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-621-m/11-621-m2026010-eng.htm

The New York Times (2025) Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door (Eli Tan)

Cited in: Notes; Appendix H

nytimes.com/2025/07/14/technology/meta-data-center-water.html

Also: web.archive.org/web/20260219165535/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/technology/meta-data-center-water.html (archived copy)

Town of Marana (2024) Marana Town Code section 17-6-13, Data centers (Ordinance 2024.029)

Cited in: Notes; Appendix H

codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/maranaaz/latest/marana_az/0-0-0-17317

UBS (2023), via Reuters ChatGPT sets record for fastest-growing user base - analyst note

Cited in: Notes

reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-fastest-growing-user-base-analyst-note-2023-02-01 (news report)

Vaswani et al. (2017) Attention Is All You Need

Cited in: Notes

arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

Wei et al. (2022) Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models

Cited in: Notes

arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903

World Economic Forum (2023) The Future of Jobs Report 2023

Cited in: Notes

weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2023

Also: weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2023/digest