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New Essay in Liberal Currents

September 16, 2025: Deflating “Hype” Won’t Save Us. With Ingeborg Glimmer

Book List - Critical Books on Tech & AI

Made a little curated list of critical books on Big Tech & AI

New Blog Post!

July 17, 2025: Wrote a little post about Speed-Accuracy Tradeoffs and AI.

About Me

I am a cognitive scientist, linguist, occasional AI researcher, and freelance writer. I received my PhD from New York University, where I worked on natural language syntax and morphology with Alec Marantz (which, fun fact for the non-linguists, makes me Noam Chomsky’s academic grandson).

Over the last few years, I’ve gotten interested in Artificial Intelligence and its applications. I’ve written about AI in academic journals (e.g., our paper on machine ethics which has been covered in Psychology Today, and in the New York Times). I also write in for a general audience in places like Jacobin.

Most recently, I’ve published a book about AI, Class, and Capitalism together with my friend Ingeborg Glimmer. It’s title is (a little tongue in cheek) Why We Fear AI. If you’re interested in what AI will do to politics or the future of work, check it out! You can read the introduction here!