Resources
The real reading behind the fiction
MB is invented. The trends it observes are not. These are external, independent sources — we don't control them and we don't always agree with them.
Understand the technology
- Stanford HAI — AI Index Report ↗
Annual, heavily sourced data on AI capability, cost, adoption and public opinion.
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework ↗
The vocabulary regulators and companies actually use when arguing about risk.
- OECD AI Policy Observatory ↗
Cross-country policy tracking, including agents and automated decision-making.
Privacy, data and your rights
- Electronic Frontier Foundation ↗
Practical, non-hysterical explanations of what is being collected and by whom.
- Privacy International ↗
Investigations into data brokers, tracking and inferred profiles.
- EU AI Act — official text ↗
Primary source. Read the transparency obligations; they explain a lot of 2026 product design.
Grief, memory and digital afterlives
- Oxford Internet Institute — digital afterlife research ↗
Academic work on memorial data, consent and the ethics of recreation.
- Ada Lovelace Institute ↗
Public-interest research on data, biometrics and health inference.
For classrooms and reading groups
- MyBotLife discussion prompts
Every entry ends with a reader question and a poll. Our editorial labels explain what is fact, projection and fiction.
- The BotLife Timeline
A one-page framing device for discussing how capability becomes habit.
A note on sourcing
When an entry makes a factual claim, we link the source next to the claim. When it doesn't, the entry is labelled as fiction, projection, speculation or satire. Our labelling system is set out in full on the editorial standards page.