News

New Essay in Jacobin

July 22, 2026: The Socialist Case Against Nationalizing AI in Jacobin Magazine. With Ingeborg Glimmer

Panel Philosophical Foundations of A.I.

March 24, 2026: I’ll be on a panel at Princeton University, together with Mel Andrews, Anya Tsvetkov, Adina Williams, Peter Melchior, and aime Fernández Fisac

New Review of “Why We Fear AI”

January 2026: Dominic P. Prianti reviewed our book for the American Library Association’s Choice Magazine, and selected it as one of their top 75 Community College Titles

New review of “Why We Fear AI”

Oct 30, 2025: Matthew Kirschenbaum reviewed our book in Critical Inquiry

About Me

Together with Ingeborg Glimmer, I’m co-author of Why We Fear AI, a book about the political economy of Artificial Intelligence, and its relation to the stories people tell (and like to hear!) about AI. You can read a sample here!

By training, I am a cognitive scientist and linguist. My PhD thesis explored the nature of and limits to mismatches between natural language syntax and morphology. Essentially, it asks what the basic building blocks of language might be, and challenged the classic conception of morphemes as the “smallest meaningful unit”. Somehow, one of the ideas from that dissertation got termed a https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/24042/#heading2)[Blixeme] in the academic record (so, given the rules of the game, that means I’m technically immortal, right?). My PhD advisor was Alec Marantz at New York University (which, fun fact for the non-linguists, makes me Noam Chomsky’s academic grandson).

Over the last few years, I’ve gotten interested in Large Language Models and through that in Artificial Intelligence and its applications more generally. 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.