Selected Short-Form
- MediaWell, “Deconstructing the Disinformation War” (2020)
- Foreign Policy, “Artificial Intelligence Isn’t an Arms Race” (2019)
- Logic Magazine, “The Madness of the Crowd” (2017)
- Medium, “Keynesianism in the Marketplace of Ideas” (2017)
- Slate, “The Mirage of the Marketplace” (with Madeleine Elish) (2015)
- Motherboard, “Weapons of Mass Persuasion” (2015)
- Medium Re:Form, “Back Stage at the Machine Theater” (with Karen Levy) (2015)
- The Atlantic, “Twisted: The Battle to Be The Worlds Largest Ball of Twine” (with Jon Beilin and Anselm Bradford) (2014)
Selected Long-Form
- Subprime Attention Crisis (2020)
- “Deepfakes: A Grounded Threat Assessment” (2020)
- “Shaping the Terrain of AI Competition” (2020)
- “Maneuver and Manipulation: On the Military Strategy of Online Information Warfare” (2019)
- “Computational Power and the Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence” (2018)
- “On the Architecture of the Folk Game: The Case of ‘The Floor is Lava'” (2018)
- “Dealing with Disinformation: Evaluating the Case for CDA 230 Amendment” (2017)
- “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: International Law and the Future of Online PsyOps” (with Lea Rosen) (2017)
- “Discriminating Tastes: Uber’s Customer Ratings as Vehicles for Workplace Discrimination” (with Alex Rosenblat, Karen Levy, Solon Barocas) (2016)
- “The Container Guide” (with Craig Cannon) (2015)
- “The Theory of Peak Advertising” (with Adi Kamdar) (2013)
Selected Talks
- Percolate Transition, “Who Invented the Millennial” (2016)
- Percolate Transition, “Why Standards Matter” (2015)
- Percolate Transition, “The Death and Life of Great Internet Cities” (2014)
- HOPE 9, “I’m Not A Real Friend, But I Play One On The Internet” (2012)
Miscellaneous Writing / Speaking
- CSET, “Mapping Research Agendas in U.S. Corporate AI Laboratories” (2021)
- CSET, “Comparing Corporate and University Publication Activity in AI/ML” (2021)
- NATO, “Deepfakes — Primer and Forecast” (2020)
- Washington Post, “Deepfakes are coming for American democracy.” (with Clint Watts) (2020)
- Just Security, “War is as War Does: World Order and the Future of Conflict” (with Alex Pascal) (2019)
- Poynter, “The future of the deepfake — and what it means for fact-checkers” (2018)
- Undark, “Don’t Worry About Deepfakes. Worry About Why People Fall For Them” (2018)
- New Scientist, “Deepfakes won’t wreck politics this year even if politicians might” (2018)
- IBM iX Blog, “Three Ways Metalearning Will Change the Face of Artificial Intelligence” (2018)
- IBM iX Blog, “Think that machine learning requires tons of data? Think again.” (2018)
- Policy Field Notes: NIPS 2017 (with Jack Clark) (2017)
- “Digital Disinformation: A Primer” (with the Atlantic Council) (2017)
- IBM iX Blog, “Fulfilling the Potential of AI Requires Getting Interpretability Right” (2017)
- Slate, “The Most Important Lesson From the Dust-Up Over Trump’s Fake Twitter Followers” (with Sam Woolley) (2017)
- Policy Field Notes: NIPS 2016 (with Jack Clark) (2016)
- Slate, “How Politicians Should and Shouldn’t Use Twitter Bots” (with Sam Woolley) (2016)
- Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence (with Jack Clark and Shivon Zillis) (2016)
- Fusion, “Selfies Have Created A Huge Industry” (2015)
- The Atlantic, “The Future of Morality, At Every Internet User’s Fingertips” (2015)
- Working Paper: “Praise the Machine!” (with Madeleine Elish) (2015)
- Quartz, “When Your Self-Driving Car Crashes, You Could Still Be The One Who Gets Sued” (with Madeleine Elish) (2015)
- Civicist, “Bring on the Bots” (with Sam Woolley) (2015)
- Motherboard, “Might Intelligent Machines One Day Convince Us It’s Time to Die?” (with Madeleine Elish) (2015)
- The Atlantic, “Cloud and Other Dangerous Metaphors” (with Karen Levy) (2015)
- Ignite Bay Area, “Vestigial City” (2014)
- Ignite Bay Area, “On the Robotic Subjugation of Twitter” (2014)
- SXSW, “Explorations in Corporate Zoology” (2012)
- Washington Post, “Wikileaks and the Internet’s Long War” (2010)
- Ignite NYC, “What the Internet Has to Tell You About Social Media” (2009)