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Podcast: Block & Build

July 28, 2025: Talked to Cayden Mak of Convergence Magazine’s Build & Block podcast about AI and Politics!

New Review of ‘Why We Fear AI’

July 22, 2025: “Why We Fear AI will linger with its audience far longer than any best-seller penned by yet another Silicon Valley exec.” - Shirley Siluk wrote a review of Why We Fear AI. Check it out!

New Blog Post!

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

Paper at ACL 2025

July 2025: New paper at ACL 2025, Domain Regeneration: How well do LLMs match syntactic properties of text domains? with Da Ju & Adina Williams.

Podcast: This Machine Kills

May 13, 2025: AI is the Demon God of Capital with Jathan, Ed, and Jereme!

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!