In 2018 I became technology correspondent for NBC News, reporting for the TODAY show, Nightly News, MSNBC, and NBC News Now on the unanticipated consequences of science and technology in our lives.

From 2018 to 2019 I was a fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, along with its partner the Berggruen Institute, which gave me space and companionship on the Stanford campus to write The Loop, my book about the effects of artificial intelligence on human decision making, published by Hachette Book Group.

Between 2016 and 2020 I co-wrote and hosted a landmark four-hour television series on the science and implications of bias. It changed my life. Hacking Your Mind is a global tour of the cutting edge of decision science, an examination of the ways our brains are ill-suited to twenty-first century problems, and a hopeful exploration of what we can do about it. I highly recommend it.

From 2013 to 2018 I was science and technology correspondent for Al Jazeera, covering the intersection of innovation, national security, and geopolitics. While I was there I found a new way of telling stories: high-energy, upbeat delivery of dark and difficult topics. I covered everything from the heroin epidemic to environmental threats to the effects of gun violence in America.

In my previous life I was a magazine editor. My last gig in publishing was as editor-in-chief of Popular Science, the world’s largest science and technology publication at the time. This site contains any television or public-speaking appearance of which I’m even remotely proud, along with my written work for The New Yorker, Wired, and other publications.