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Jacob Ward

My New Book: What Will AI Do to Us?

In a few months I’ll begin work at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) as a Berggruen…

May 18, 2018

My New Book: What Will AI Do to Us?

May 18, 2018

Absolutely Right: The Persuasion Technique That Could Bring Us to Our Senses, or Deepen Our…

If it sounds absurd, you’re heading in the right direction…

Dec 4, 2017

Absolutely Right: The Persuasion Technique That Could Bring Us to Our Senses, or Deepen Our…

Dec 4, 2017

A Nobel Prizewinner Working to Save All Us Suckers

When I first met Richard Thaler, he quoted Homer. Not the philosopher, the Simpson character. Thaler was looking for a simple way to…

Oct 20, 2017

A Nobel Prizewinner Working to Save All Us Suckers

Oct 20, 2017

Why Is Russia Using Twitter and Facebook? Read This Polish Report to Find Out

We’ve built the perfect machine for another country to capture and retain “users”

Sep 29, 2017

Why Is Russia Using Twitter and Facebook? Read This Polish Report to Find Out

Sep 29, 2017

The Causes We Click (and Die) For

The series “Guidance Systems” discusses technologies that seem to improve our lives by offering us new choices, while in fact shaping or…

Sep 8, 2017

The Causes We Click (and Die) For

Sep 8, 2017

Killer Robots and the Moral Dilemma of Automation (2 of 2)

How will we teach robots to understand our values? Maybe by reading them stories.

Aug 31, 2017

Killer Robots and the Moral Dilemma of Automation (2 of 2)

Aug 31, 2017

Killer Robots and the Moral Dilemma of Automation (1 of 2)

I once sat inside a flight simulator, slowly blacking out.

Aug 24, 2017

Killer Robots and the Moral Dilemma of Automation (1 of 2)

Aug 24, 2017

What Cigarettes Can Teach Us About the Risks of Breakthrough Technology

In cigarettes, we’ve invented a deadly vice that is immune to natural selection and our own reasoning. They’re not the only product we’ve…

Aug 15, 2017

What Cigarettes Can Teach Us About the Risks of Breakthrough Technology

Aug 15, 2017

Jacob Ward

Jacob Ward

Technology correspondent for NBC News. Berggruen Fellow at Stanford’s CASBS program. Former editor-in-chief of Popular Science. http://www.jacobward.com

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