Journalist covering AI for @Gizmodo. Also seen in @TheAtlantic, @sciam, @WIRED, @QuantaMagazine, @VICE, and elsewhere. Obsessed with words and music.
Joined January 2021
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For @TheAtlantic I wrote about AI, consciousness, and the dangers that arise when we start mistaking one for the other.
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I've officially joined @Gizmodo as a senior reporter covering AI! Feeling very lucky to be a part of this team.
I'll be covering the industry from all angles—technical, legal, economic, psychological, philosophical. Send tips to wwright@gizmodo.com.
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The boosters behind AI tell us that this is the unavoidable next stage in technological evolution—so we may as well just accept it. @_webbwright calls bullshit.
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Robin Carhart-Harris Is Mapping the Mind Using Psychedelics | DoubleBlind Mag doubleblindmag.com/robin-car…
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New for @WIRED: DMT trip reports are full of encounters with what seem to be intelligent, otherworldly beings, including the "self-transforming elf machines" of Terence McKenna fame. Are they just hallucinations, or something more?
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I was interviewed for and quoted in this @ZDNET article on Chatbots written by @_webbwright
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3 Nov 2025
Anthropic researchers say they've found "evidence for some degree of introspective awareness in our current Claude models, as well as a degree of control over their own internal states."
My latest for @ZDNET:
zdnet.com/article/ai-is-beco…
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1 Oct 2025
"The human brain is simply not wired to treat AI like any other technology," Webb Wright writes. "For some users, the system is alive." theatlantic.com/technology/2…
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As concerns grow about AI chatbots leading users into delusional spirals, prominent spiritual influencers are capitalizing on an emerging form of techno-spirituality. wired.com/story/spiritual-in…
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New for @WIRED:
Using the language of New Age spirituality, wellness, and quantum woo, prominent influencers are claiming that AI is a gateway to numinous wisdom—even as reports of chatbots leading users into spirals of delusion continue to mount.
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Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture. wired.com/story/researchers-…
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20 Aug 2025
How much of human behavior is deterministic—a set of probabilities no more inscrutable to algorithms than so many pieces on a chessboard?
To find out, I interviewed an AI agent trained to mimic my personality.
My latest for @sciam:
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13 Jul 2025
what? no.
People are using AI to ‘sit’ with them while they trip on psychedelics
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9 Jul 2025
recent paper shows that the “creativity” of certain AI may actually be a direct, inevitable consequence of how they are built. quantamagazine.org/researche… @_webbwright @QuantaMagazine
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1 Jul 2025
Both psychedelics and AI, in their own separate ways, can help illuminate the inner reaches of the human mind. For @techreview, I wrote about the dangers—and moments of strange beauty—that can occur when the two are used together.
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30 Jun 2025
Honored to have had my recent work with @SuryaGanguli on the mechanisms behind creativity in diffusion models featured in this lovely article by @_webbwright for Quanta magazine!
30 Jun 2025
In a recent paper, physicists used two predictable factors to reproduce the “creativity” seen from image-generating AI. @_webbwright reports: quantamagazine.org/researche…
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30 Jun 2025
Can image-generating AI models really be "creative"? Or is there something deeper at play? My latest for @QuantaMagazine:
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30 Jun 2025
In a recent paper, physicists used two predictable factors to reproduce the “creativity” seen from image-generating AI. @_webbwright reports: quantamagazine.org/researche…
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I experienced two grand mal seizures in 2011, both of which were profoundly transformative. And like many transformative experiences, they were both traumatic and enlightening.
The most personal story I've ever published, for @psyche_the_mag:
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