Writing

More or less everything I’ve published is here, in reverse chronological order. My current research is on the economic implications of generative AI and the political legitimacy of big tech companies. Previously I worked on search data, data ethics, digital advertising, crypto, and the metaverse.

Some of this is paywalled; if you can’t reach something you’d like to read, feel free to email me.

Generative AI and public policy

How AI is changing work, science and the environment — and what policymakers can reasonably do about it.

AI and scientific research

A series with Dr Steven Wooding for Villum Fonden on what generative AI does to how research gets done, funded and judged.

Big tech: power, legitimacy and regulation

Why the “surveillance capitalism” framing is wrong, and what a realist account of tech power looks like.

Other thinking

I don’t always stay exactly in my lane.

Earlier work

Search data and public policy

Between 2019 and 2022 I worked on what Google search data can tell policymakers — particularly about wellbeing during the pandemic.

Advertising, privacy, and data ethics

Crypto and the metaverse

Fintech and insurance

From my time in industry, before I moved to research.

Talks, panels, podcasts

Press and media

Where journalists have quoted or interviewed me.