Public Writing

Tech Policy Press: “The Public is Getting Fed Up With Data Centers. Politicians Need to Take Notice.” March 2026.

Tech Policy Press: “Using AI to Reform Government is Much Harder Than it Looks.” June 2025.

Tech Policy Press: “DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous.” March 2025.

The Hill: “Government by algorithm: Can AI improve human decisionmaking?” September 2021.

Slate: “The False Comfort of Human Oversight as an Antidote to A.I. Harm.” June 2021 (with Amba Kak).

The Law and Political Economy Blog: “Algorithmic Imaginaries: The Political Limits Of Legal And Computational Reasoning.” April 2021.

Jacobin: “Privacy Versus Health Is a False Trade-Off.” April 2020 (with Jake Goldenfein and Salomé Viljoen).

The New York Times: “Smile, Your City is Watching You.” June 2019.

The Wall Street Journal: “The Biggest Mistakes Cities Make in Their Quest to Be Smart.” May 2019.

The Boston Globe: “Can predictive policing help stamp out racial profiling?” April 2019.

Metropolis Magazine: “Cities Are Not Technology Problems: What Smart Cities Companies Get Wrong.” March 2019.