The Machine's Version

Essays on how AI describes people whose names carry consequence.

By Antoni Grgurovic

Every serious name now has a version the machine produces when someone asks. These essays are about what goes into it and what decides it.

A new essay by email every other week, with field notes from my current research when there are results to report. Nothing else.

No. 02 ·

The Name He Outbuilt

How John D. Rockefeller let the record close without him—and how his son rebuilt it.