Who I am

I analyze horrible ways people kill one another: killer robots, drone swarms, weapons of mass destruction, and apocalyptic terrorism.

I'm an Adjunct Fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Strategic Technology Program, a Policy Fellow at the Schar School of Policy and Government, a Research Affiliate with the Unconventional Weapons and Technology Division of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), a Fellow at the National Institute for Deterrence Studies, an officially proclaimed U.S. Army "Mad Scientist," and a national security consultant. I'm also an Advisory Board member for the Center for Intelligence and Security Studies at the University of Akron and appeared in Netflix's "UNKNOWN: Killer Robots" documentary.

I have about 60 publications in a broad range of popular, wonky, and peer reviewed outlets, including Foreign Policy, the Brookings Institution, Slate, War on the Rocks, DefenseOne, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Parameters, Terrorism and Political Violence, and the Nonproliferation Review.

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