Joined Aventine as Editor-at-Large, covering emerging technologies and AI.

I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined Aventine as Editor-at-Large. Aventine is a non-profit research institute exploring how advances in science and technology will shape our future, and the coverage areas are exactly the kinds of things that I’ve always loved to nerd out on. I’ve been working with the publication in the background for more than two years now, helping its executive director Danielle Mattoon launch and run a flagship newsletter. But now I’m going to be taking on a wider role, continuing with the newsletter (for which we have big plans) as well as contributing features about emerging technologies. Yes, I’ll be covering AI a lot, both the cutting-edge advances and practical applications. But I’ll also be looking at all sorts of emerging technologies: robotics, computing, energy, material science, biotech, transportation, advanced manufacturing, and so on. I’m particularly interested in the intersection of those technologies with society and the economy, and how these sorts of innovations will actually affect us all. Some topics I’m currently thinking about: AI as a tool for scientific discovery; how automation will affect granular facets of work (e.g., wages, human-AI collaboration, etc);  how far current AI progress can take robotics; how we can increase the rate of innovation across a range of sciences; bottlenecks for the rollout of new technologies; probably plenty of others I can’t remember right now. If you have an interesting story idea — perhaps from research you’re working on, or new technology coming out of a company you work for — then please hit me up. The more complicated, the better!