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Thanks to Covid, Robots Are Having a Moment

Why the pandemic has been good for robotics

Why some near-future robots will probably need to be brusk, impatient or even downright rude.

Roboticists look for ways to prevent systematic racism from shaping more AI and robots.

Is Covid-19 the turning point that will lead us to accept robots in daily life?

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

Getting humans and machines to work well together isn't easy

You clicked "Agree" but you didn't really read the contract, did you? Nobody does, and that matters.

About the science of Us-versus-Them, for National Geographic's Race issue (April, 2018)

My profile of the remarkable Lewis Fry Richardson, pioneer of both meteorology and the study of conflict

When we find intelligent aliens, how will we recognize them?

How Not to Think About Obesity

Ghastly gastronomy, as published in Nature

A genomic nightmare

Preface to the Paperback Edition