At the “Attention: Democracy Rebuilt” conference hosted by McGill University in Montreal last week, cognitive scientist and AI critic Gary Marcus offered a helpful formulation.… Read More »Public Media vs. P(dystopia): reflections from Attention 2026
If you’re active in academic circles, you might have seen my name in a big announcement today. (Okay, maybe it would have been a bigger… Read More »My personal contribution to the US/Canada trade war
Academic summers always start with a plan. This is the summer I’m going to start three new lines of research, writing key bits of code… Read More »The Eyes Have Had It: A (Mental) Health Update from the Summer of Sue
I write a monthly column for Prospect Magazine in the UK, covering the social implications of information technology. This month’s column is about how AI… Read More »Recent Writing, as of March 2026
Howard French is one of the leading journalists and thinkers about Africa’s role in the world, and the attention the world does and doesn’t pay… Read More »Howard French: The Second Emancipation
I’m teaching two classes at UMass Amherst this spring. One is the latest incarnation of my “Fixing Social Media” class, which I launched late in… Read More »“Where Should We Live” – a new class on cities, migration and climate change
