Phil PowisChief Wisdom Keeper @ Sacred Business Flow

Why Slow AI exists #substack #shorts

27 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the founder of the Slow AI Substack explains that the newsletter launched on July 1 of the previous year with the purpose of providing a clear, centrist space for understanding what AI truly is and isn’t, countering misinformation, and offering honest, non‑prompt‑engineering advice. He reports that the newsletter has attracted just over 16,000 subscribers, with under 300 paid supporters, and reflects on the difficulties he faces as a career academic lacking marketing and pricing expertise. He also references collaborator Mia Kuraki and her project “Robots Take My Homework,” underscoring the community aspect of the effort.

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Yeah, of course. And, you know, really interesting you use the word business. I always struggle with using words to identify myself, like, in this, like, poet, scientist, entrepreneur, business writer, like, so it's always nice when someone else uses that word instead. I guess my Substack journey and what I'm trying to build with Slow AI officially started on the 1st of July last year. And, you know, what I really wanted to do is I wanted to create a space where people could engage around what AI actually is and what it's not, to try to tackle some of the misinformation, to try to adopt a broadly centrist approach, and to genuinely try to give people advice that wasn't prompt engineering and that wasn't mistruths and that wasn't trying to con people. And so we started Slow AI and then we've been really successful, grown to just over 16,000 subscribers. I've got, I think, just under 300 paid subscribers now as well. And just speaking honestly, I found the journey difficult, mainly the pricing. You know, I'm a, I'm an academic, like a career academic. I don't know anything about marketing. Business at all. You know, Mia Kuraki, who does Robots Take My Homework, who I know you've had on here before,