WRITING

AI, SAFETY, & EDUCATION

The most dangerous thing an AI can say to your kid

EdTech Digest • May 2026

Safe student-facing AI: mitigating companionship risks in schools

MagicSchool White Paper • February 2026

The AI safety loop for students

MagicSchool White Paper • September 2025

How we evaluate and improve grade alignment in MagicSchool

MagicSchool White Paper • April 2026

EARLIER PUBLIC WRITING

The MRAP boondoggle

Foreign Affairs • July 2012

Covered in The New York Times, USA Today, Time, US News & World Report, Wired, Harvard Business Review, Business Insider, The Boston Globe, and The Daily. Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates responded on the record in USA Today. Future Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter replied in Foreign Affairs. As USA Today reported, the Pentagon’s estimate of lives MRAPs saved in Afghanistan fell from 30,000 to “more than 2,000” in the weeks after the article appeared.

Saving soldiers’ lives

New York Times Letters to the Editor • October 2012

What academia can do for DoD

Armed Forces Journal • November 2011

Top 10 reasons you shouldn’t drop insignificant regressors

Chance • November 2018

BOOK

Fame machines: why talent isn’t enough—and what really decides

Pop-science manuscript