Journalist covering AI for @Gizmodo. Also seen in @TheAtlantic, @WIRED, @QuantaMagazine, @sciam, @VICE, and elsewhere. Obsessed with words and music.
Brooklyn, NY
Joined January 2021
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For @verge, I spoke with police officers, tech companies, and public safety experts about the growing role of AI within law enforcement. History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes.
Huge thanks to @tarbellcenter for their support in bringing this to life!
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Thanks @_webbwright for this nicely written article about Eko!
Webb gives more context behind our work and emphasizes the mindset we had with my coauthors @noranta4 Dan @jacobandreas Daniela @phillip_isola:
- we designed Eko with as little constraints as possible
- we studied Eko as an "alien animal", taking inspiration from ethology
- we realized Eko is actually curious, plays, and learns from it
gizmodo.com/researchers-stra…
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Beware the Rise of the ‘Pentagon-Silicon Complex.' Many thanks to @_webbwright for writing about my book, VALLEY OF DEATH, in @Gizmodo.
gizmodo.com/beware-the-rise-…
Why does Silicon Valley seem so cavalier about the apocalypse?
For @Gizmodo I wrote about the quasi-religious belief among some of tech's most powerful leaders that machines will one day replace humanity—and that this is a natural next step in evolution.
gizmodo.com/in-silicon-valle…
I've officially joined @Gizmodo as a senior reporter covering AI! Feeling very lucky to be a part of this team.
I'll be covering the industry from all angles—technical, legal, economic, psychological, philosophical. Send tips to [email protected].
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The boosters behind AI tell us that this is the unavoidable next stage in technological evolution—so we may as well just accept it. @_webbwright calls bullshit.
thebaffler.com/latest/think-…
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Robin Carhart-Harris Is Mapping the Mind Using Psychedelics | DoubleBlind Mag doubleblindmag.com/robin-car…
New for @WIRED: DMT trip reports are full of encounters with what seem to be intelligent, otherworldly beings, including the "self-transforming elf machines" of Terence McKenna fame. Are they just hallucinations, or something more?
wired.com/story/some-people-…
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I was interviewed for and quoted in this @ZDNET article on Chatbots written by @_webbwright
zdnet.com/article/how-ai-cha…
Anthropic researchers say they've found "evidence for some degree of introspective awareness in our current Claude models, as well as a degree of control over their own internal states."
My latest for @ZDNET:
zdnet.com/article/ai-is-beco…
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"The human brain is simply not wired to treat AI like any other technology," Webb Wright writes. "For some users, the system is alive." theatlantic.com/technology/2…
For @TheAtlantic I wrote about AI, consciousness, and the dangers that arise when we start mistaking one for the other.
theatlantic.com/technology/2…
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As concerns grow about AI chatbots leading users into delusional spirals, prominent spiritual influencers are capitalizing on an emerging form of techno-spirituality. wired.com/story/spiritual-in…
New for @WIRED:
Using the language of New Age spirituality, wellness, and quantum woo, prominent influencers are claiming that AI is a gateway to numinous wisdom—even as reports of chatbots leading users into spirals of delusion continue to mount.
wired.com/story/spiritual-in…
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Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture. wired.com/story/researchers-…
How much of human behavior is deterministic—a set of probabilities no more inscrutable to algorithms than so many pieces on a chessboard?
To find out, I interviewed an AI agent trained to mimic my personality.
My latest for @sciam:
scientificamerican.com/artic…
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what? no.
People are using AI to ‘sit’ with them while they trip on psychedelics
technologyreview.com/2025/07…
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recent paper shows that the “creativity” of certain AI may actually be a direct, inevitable consequence of how they are built. quantamagazine.org/researche… @_webbwright @QuantaMagazine
