Op-Eds Authored

• Washington Post: Lawsuits aren't the best way to keep the tech industry honest, with Louisa Bartolo and Dominique Carlon, Nov 8, 2023.

• Fast Company: We need a better way to find AI’s dangerous flaws, with Louisa Bartolo and Dominique Carlon, Oct 24, 2023.

• Washington Post: Review: We can’t stop AI, but here’s how we might shape its effects, Sep 5, 2023.

• Fast Company: Will AI wipe out humanity? It’s a story engineered to go viral, Jun 23, 2023.

• Ms. Magazine: How AI Puts Elections at Risk—And the Needed Safeguards, with Mekela Panditharatne, Jun 17, 2023.

• Scientific American: Three Easy Ways to Make AI Chatbots Safer, Mar 17, 2023.

• TIME: Big Tech Hasn't Fixed AI's Misinformation Problem---Yet, with Gary Marcus, Feb 13, 2023.

• Boston Globe: The Moral Failing of `Effective Altruism', with Emily Frey, Nov 22, 2022.

• Slate: The Real Threat from AI Isn't Superintelligence. It's Gullibility, Oct 11, 2022.

• Barron's: What Was Lost in the Debate about Sentient AI, with Paul Romer, Aug 7, 2022.

• Tech Policy Press: In the Name of Openness, May 18, 2022.

• Boston Globe: Facebook Could Make Its Algorithms Truly Work for You, Mar 24, 2022.

• Slate: The Destabilizing Effects of Even Low-Quality Deepfakes, Mar 23, 2022.

• Slate: Google Needs to Defund Misinformation, Nov 18, 2021.

• Wired: Facebook Uses Deceptive Math To Hide Its Hate Speech Problem, Oct 15, 2021.

• Fast Company:  How internet pioneer Vint Cerf illuminated Google’s misinformation mess, Sep 24, 2021.

Interviews

• CNN Live with Kim Brunhuber: Tech giants pledge to crack down on AI deep fakes, Feb 18, 2024.

• Yonhap News (Korean TV) 2-part documentary about fake news: Episode 1 (3:47 & 8:29) Nov 12, 2023, Episode 2 (4:52 & 12:27) Nov 20, 2023.

• Gallup podcast with Mohamed Younis: The Public Is Skeptical About AI, but Do Opportunities Lie Ahead?, Sep 28, 2023.

• NHK Japan (Japanese public TV news): Good Morning Japan, Jul 7, 2023.

• Carl Higbie's Frontline: AI is more dangerous than just an economic problem, Jun 2, 2023.

• Carl Higbie's Frontline: Does AI Need To Be Regulated? May 17, 2023.

• Podcast "It Could Happen Here" with Robert Evans: How Scared Should You Be About AI?, Apr 4, 2023.

• BBC Radio 4 "The Media Show": We Need to Talk About Gary, Mar 8, 2023.

• Markup newsletter "Hello World" with Julia Angwin: Shopping for an Algorithm, May 7, 2022.

• Slate podcast "What Next: TBD" with Seth Stevenson: Why the Zelensky Deepfake Failed, Mar 25, 2022.

• Newsy (online news) video segment with Tyler Adkisson: Protecting Personal Data On Social Media, Nov 19, 2021.

• Tech Policy Press podcast with Justin Hendrix: Seeing Inside the Algorithms (episode was included in the show's annual top 10 list), Oct 17, 2021.

• TechCrunch with Danny Crichton: A Mathematician Walks Into a Bar (of Disinformation), Aug 20, 2021.

• R Views (RStudio blog) with Joseph Rickert: A Mathematician’s Perspective on Topological Data Analysis (ranked top post for the year), Nov 14, 2018.

Profiles

• Bentley University: Professors Honored for Research and Teaching Excellence, Feb 16, 2024.

• Bentley University: The Mathematics of Misinformation, Aug 19, 2021.

• Bentley University: On the Case, Summer 2020.

• Swarthmore college: NSF Grant Allows Mathematician Noah Giansiracusa to Study the Poetry of Pure Math, Sep 17, 2018.

Quoted in 

• Boston Globe: Is a robot writing your kids' essays?, Mar 29, 2024.

• Fast Company: What do OpenAI’s board changes mean for the future of AI?, Mar 12, 2024.

• Digital Market Reports News: Anthropic’s Claude 3 sparks intrigue with apparent awareness during testing sessions, Mar 8, 2024.

• La Presse: Meta resolved the global outage of its Facebook and Instagram networks, Mar 5, 2024.

• Ars Technica: Anthropic’s Claude 3 causes stir by seeming to realize when it was being tested, Mar 5, 2024.

• Vox: There are too many chatbots, Jan 11, 2024.

• The Street: AI trends: What experts, execs think artificial intelligence will look like in 2024, Dec 20, 2023.

• Hyperallergic: Required Reading, Nov 30, 2023.

• The Sun: Google fooled by AI of Over the Rainbow singer Israel Kamakawiwo’ole – would it have tricked you?, Nov 29, 2023.

• Business Insider: An image of Israel Kamakawiwoʻole shows Google search still can't tell AI-generated pictures apart from genuine ones, Nov 27, 2023.

• Verdict: GlobalData’s takeaways from the OECD disinformation conference, Nov 23, 2023.

• Tech Crunch: OpenAI, emerging from the ashes, has a lot to prove even with Sam Altman’s return, Nov 23, 2023.

• Daily Courier: Elon Musk pleased with the result of OpenAI’s 'Game of Thrones', Nov 22, 2023.

• Futurism: Is OpenAI Melting Down Because It Secretly Created Something Really Scary?, Nov 21, 2023.

• Fast Company: New OpenAI CEO Emmett Shear’s time at Twitch gives clues to the future of the AI giant, Nov 20, 2023.

• Daily Courier: Emmett Shear: Everything to know about Open AI's new CEO, Nov 20, 2023.

• Fast Company: The latest we know about Sam Altman’s potential return to OpenAI after a chaotic weekend of boardroom drama, Nov 20, 2023.

• The Street: Tesla chief Elon Musk targets Google, Microsoft and Sam Altman with latest AI move, Nov 7, 2023.

• People Management: AI: how HR can ask (and answer) the right questions, Nov 7, 2023.

• The i: ‘Lots of hype, no innovation’: Experts give verdict on Elon Musk’s Grok ChatGPT rival, Nov 6, 2023.

• Nature: AI tidies up Wikipedia’s references — and boosts reliability, Oct 19, 2023.

• New Scientist: Hundreds of chatbots could show us how to make social media less toxic, Oct 19, 2023.

• New York Magazine: The Oppenheimer of Our Age, Sep 25, 2023.

• Daily Beast: The Social Media Panicmongers Have Pivoted to AI, Sep 19, 2023.

• Tech Brew: Americans side-eye AI in new Gallup poll, Sep 14, 2023.

• Tom's Hardware: AI Lie: Machines Don’t Learn Like Humans, Sep 13, 2023.

• Fast Company: Sen. Chuck Schumer’s summit is trying to solve AI’s biggest issues with the wrong guest list, Sep 13, 2023.

• The Times: Why 2024’s presidential race will be the first ‘AI election’, Aug 13, 2023.

• PBS Wisconsin: AI is starting to affect elections and Wisconsin has yet to take action, Aug 9, 2023.

• The i: Why Elon Musk’s emergency tweet rationing is not a good sign for future of ‘decaying, dysfunctional’ Twitter, Jul 2, 2023.

• The Street: DeepAI Founder and CEO Says a Sci-Fi Future Is On Its Way, Jun 25, 2023.

• Washington Post: The AI debate is sweeping through the federal government, Jun 21, 2023.

• The Street: Artificial Intelligence Isn't Going to Kill Everyone (At Least Not Right Away), Jun 13, 2023.

• Wired: Bluesky’s Custom Algorithms Could Be the Future of Social Media, Jun 3, 2023.

• The Street: Human Extinction From AI is Possible, Developers Warn, May 30, 2023.

• Washington Post: U.S. officials say AI will be a big cyberthreat. How it’ll materialize is less clear., May 2, 2023.

• Verge: AI is being used to generate whole spam sites, May 2, 2023.

• Bloomberg: AI Chatbots Have Been Used to Create Dozens of News Content Farms, May 1, 2023.

• CNBC: Microsoft tries to justify A.I.‘s tendency to give wrong answers by saying they’re ‘usefully wrong’, Mar 16, 2023.

• Guardian: Everything you wanted to know about AI – but were afraid to ask, Feb 24, 2023.

• New Delhi TV: Twitter Still Hasn’t Stopped Elon Musk Impersonators From Flourishing, Scamming, Apr 11, 2022.

• New Delhi TV: Verified Facebook Page Impersonating Elon Musk Surfaces, Dec 23, 2021.

• Agence France-Presse (AFP): World weighs laws to rein in mighty algorithms, Nov 19, 2021.

• FiveThirtyEight: Facebook’s Algorithm Is Broken. We Collected Some Suggestions On How To Fix It. Nov 16, 2021.

• Washington Post: Five points for anger, one for a ‘like’: How Facebook’s formula fostered rage and misinformation, Oct 26, 2021.

• Financial Times: Deepfakes threaten to inflate the ‘liar’s dividend’, Jul 29, 2021.

• Medium - The Startup: Can Artificial Intelligence Write Better Than You?, Dec 11, 2020.

• Forbes: Turing Test At 70: Still Relevant For AI? Nov 27, 2020.

• US News: What Can You Do With a Math Degree?, Aug 3, 2020.

• Forbes: Reinforcement Learning: The Next Big Thing For Artificial Intelligence? Jun 5, 2020.

• Forbes: AI Companies That Are Combating The COVID-19 Pandemic, Mar 28, 2020.

• Forbes: Deep Learning: What You Need To Know, Mar 27, 2020.

• Forbes: Artificial Intelligence: Can It Help Make Hollywood Blockbusters?, Jan 24, 2020.