Here’s what I’ve done. I’ve been a correspondent for Al Jazeera, CNN, PBS, and NBC News. I wrote a groundbreaking book, The Loop, that warned about the arrival of AI and the mania it would inspire in us all. I co-wrote and hosted a landmark PBS documentary series, Hacking Your Mind. I was editor-in-chief of Popular Science magazine. I’ve written for magazines such as …

Between 2018 and 2024 I was a correspondent for NBC News, reporting on national affairs for the TODAY show, Nightly News, MSNBC, and NBC News Now, with an emphasis on the unanticipated consequences of science and technology in our lives.. From 2018 to 2019 I was a fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, thanks …

In The Loop: How Technology is Creating a World without Choices and How to Fight Back, NBC News technology correspondent Jacob Ward melds the latest behavioral science with reporting from the frontiers of machine learning and activism to write what reviewers are calling “fascinating and unsettling,” and “a brilliant look at how A.I ...

“A salutary effect of growing disillusionment with tech has been a shelf of excellent critiques. But The Loop is a strong entry in the canon…AI represents perhaps the ultimate shiny object. But Ward penetrates to the dark vacancy at its core.” -The San Francisco Chronicle

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September 25, 2014 September 7, 2015 Jacob Ward For my January 2014 story, The Trials and Torments of Space School , I entered a massive centrifuge at the NASTAR facility outside Philadelphia and underwent a simulation of the G-forces that will accompany a …

November 2, 2002 October 4, 2013 Jacob Ward. Lots of clients fancy themselves design-savvy. Few have published their thoughts on the subject. But Todd Holcomb and Keith Yamashita had developed such an enthusiasm for Charles and Ray Eames that Yamashita went so far as to put together a devotional booklet titled “Fifteen Things Charles and Ray ...

August 10, 2015 Jacob Ward New technology is revealing that the United States is awash in gunfire – perhaps four or five times more shooting incidents, and 25 to 50 more bullets fired, than prior estimates calculated.

November 2, 2002 October 4, 2013 Jacob Ward. Lots of clients fancy themselves design-savvy. Few have published their thoughts on the subject. But Todd Holcomb and Keith Yamashita had developed such an enthusiasm for Charles and Ray Eames that Yamashita went so far as to put together a devotional booklet titled “Fifteen Things Charles and Ray ...