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Nautilus

Katarina Zimmer is a freelance science and environment journalist.

Katarina Zimmer

Technology

The Inner Lives of Cells

Jeff Yoshimi is a professor and a founding faculty member in the Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences and the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Merced. His research areas include neural networks, dynamical systems theory, philosophy of cognitive science, and visualization of complex processes. He is the author of <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550727/gaming-cancer/">Gaming Cancer</a>.

Jeff Yoshimi

Gaming Cancer

Susan Schneider writes about the nature of the self and mind, especially from the vantage point of issues in philosophy, AI, cognitive science, and astrobiology. She is the author of <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691180144/artificial-you?srsltid=AfmBOoqugRz3a5aF_PSB4ojaT3k5wDg_Zv9hjaOS7m4eXivccV3rq48x">Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind</a>. Before founding the <a href="https://www.fau.edu/future-mind/">Center for the Future of Mind, AI, and Society</a> at Florida Atlantic University, where she is the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professor, she held the NASA-Blumberg Chair with NASA and the Distinguished Scholar Chair at the Library of Congress. Her op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, and The Financial Times.

Susan Schneider

AI Already Knows Us Too Well

Arts, science, and travel writer Nick Hilden contributes to the likes of the Washington Post, Scientific American, Esquire, Popular Science, National Geographic, and more. You can follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/nickhilden">@nickhilden</a> or Instagram at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nick.hilden/">@nick.hilden</a>.

Nick Hilden

AI Has Already Run Us Over the Cliff

Ericka Johnson is a professor of gender and society at Linköping University, Sweden; director of the National Graduate School of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems, and Software Program—Humanity and Society (WASP-HS); and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. She is the author of many books, including <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262543040/a-cultural-biography-of-the-prostate/">A Cultural Biography of the Prostate</a> (MIT Press) and the editor of the book <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550949/how-that-robot-made-me-feel/">How That Robot Made Me Feel</a>, from which this article is adapted.

Ericka Johnson

I Bought a Robot Cat for My Rabbit

Sarah Scoles is a Colorado-based science journalist, a contributing writer at Popular Science, and a senior contributor at Undark. Her work has appeared in publications like The New York Times, Wired, Scientific American, and others. She is also the author of the books Making Contact: Jill Tarter and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers, and Astronomical Mindfulness.

Sarah Scoles

AI Could Help Humans Understand Animals

AI-Powered Rescue Dogs

Sarah A. Bell is a writer and professor who studies the impacts of information technologies on society. She is the author of <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546355/vox-ex-machina/">Vox ex Machina: A Cultural History of Talking Machines</a>. An open access edition of the book is available for download <a href="https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5834/Vox-ex-MachinaA-Cultural-History-of-Talking">here</a>.

Sarah A. Bell

How Talking Machines Got Their Voices

Ashley Braun is an award-winning freelance science and environmental journalist based in Seattle, Washington. Her reporting has taken her from the United Nations climate summit in Morocco and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to California’s redwood forests and Washington’s salmon rivers. In her work, she enjoys exploring the dynamic relationships between humans and other species, as well as the intersections of science and society.

Ashley Braun

Ping, You’ve Got Whale

Adam Mann is a freelance space and physics reporter who lives in Oakland, California.

Adam Mann

Balloon-Borne Telescopes Take Off

Stephen Hawking’s Eternal Voice

Philip Ball is a freelance writer based in London, and the author of many books on science and its interactions with the broader culture. His latest book is How Life Works.