AI Mistakes Are Very Different Than Human Mistakes
An article for IEEE Spectrum about how the weirdness of AI's mistakes deceives us about its capabilities and appropriate use cases.
Nathan E. Sanders
AI Futures | Trust Issues: The closed corporate ecosystem is the problem.
An article for the Boston Review in response to Evgeny Morozov's essay 'The AI We Deserve'.
The Wired World in 2025: Algorithms are Coming for Democracy--But It's Not All Bad
An article for Wired's world in review for 2025 about the many ways AI is impacting democracy.
The SEC Whistleblower Program Is Dominating Regulatory Enforcement
An article for The American Prospect about the risks of the SEC whistleblower program when confronted with AI.
AI Could Still Wreck the Presidential Election
An article for The Atlantic about the US federal agencies' failure to regulate AI in time for the 2024 election.
Applications Of Artificial Intelligence Tools To Enhance Legislative Engagement: Case Studies From Make.org And MAPLE
Case studies on using AI for legislative engagement from Make.org and MAPLE.
Using AI for Political Polling
A blog post for the Ash Center about how AI will change political polling.
Let’s Not Make the Same Mistakes with AI That We Made With Social Media.
This article was written with Bruce Schneier and originally published at Technology Review on 2024-03-13. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A decade ago, social media was celebrated ...
ComboPath: An ML system for predicting drug combination effects with superior model specification
An ML system for predicting drug combination effects, presented at NeurIPS AI4Science and on bioRxiv.
Demonstrations of the Potential of AI-based Political Issue Polling
This paper explores the capabilities of artificial intelligence in conducting political issue polling, using LLMs to simulate responses and comparing them to human polling data.
Who's accountable for AI usage in digital campaign ads? Right now, no one.
An article for Harvard's Ash center blog about the tangle of US federal agencies failing to enforce regulations relating to AI in election campaigns.
The A.I. Wars Have Three Factions, and They All Crave Power
An article for The New York Times about the emerging factions within the AI community.
AI Could Reshape Climate Communication
An article outlining the possibilities AI provides to enhance public communication about climate change published by Eos Magazine (AGU).
Nervous About ChatGPT? Try ChatGPT With a Hammer
An article for Wired about the then-coming generation of tool-using, agentic AI.
Six ways that AI could change politics
An article for the Technology Review about the variety of ways that AI will change politics writ large.
Can you trust AI? Here's why you shouldn't
An article for The Conversation about how to build AI that is more trustworthy.
AI could shore up democracy – here’s one way
An article for The Conversation about how AI could be used in legislative engagement.
Build AI by the People, for the People
An article for Foreign Policy making the case for Public AI.
Can We Build Trustworthy AI?
An article for Gizmodo about how to live in a world with untrustworthy AI.
Just Wait Until Trump Is a Chatbot
An article for The Atlantic about how political campaigns may begin to use AI chatbots.