Human, AI and In-Between
Would you chat with an AI version of a deceased loved one? I did. I explain why, and look at the risks -- and possible benefits of this tech. Read it here.
Putting bodiless AI into brainless robots isn't as simple as it sounds.
AI demands huge amounts of electricity and clean, potable water. Companies aren't telling us enough about those impacts. Read it here at Undark.
ChatGPT is already shaking up white-collar work, as a recent study shows.
Why some near-future robots will probably need to be brusk, impatient or even downright rude.
My cover story for the September, 2020 issue of National Geographic.
In 2015, I wrote one of the first popular-science articles about algorithmic opacity
If your sexts are coming from an algorithm, you've outsourced too much to machines
Essay
You clicked "Agree" but you didn't really read the contract, did you? Nobody does, and that matters.
Math, Weather and War
My profile of the remarkable Lewis Fry Richardson, pioneer of both meteorology and the study of conflict
Xenobiology
When we find intelligent aliens, how will we recognize them?
Obesity
How Not to Think About Obesity
Fiction
Ghastly gastronomy, as published in Nature
Us and Them 2008 Edition
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Other Species