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Will Douglas Heaven

MIT Technology Review senior AI editor

Senior editor for AI at MIT Technology Review; has authored most of the publication's flagship AI features since 2020. One of the most-read journalists covering technical safety and capability research for non-specialist audiences.

current Senior Editor for AI, MIT Technology Review

@strwbilly

Strategy positions

Near-term harms firstmixed

Documented present harms outweigh speculative existential narratives

Editorial work consistently treats AI hype claims with skepticism while taking the underlying technical advances seriously; frames safety reporting around concrete failure modes rather than meta-debates.

The challenge in covering AI is that the technology is moving faster than the framework we use to evaluate claims about it. Our job is to slow down enough to test what is actually being demonstrated.

¶ articleWill Douglas Heaven, MIT Tech Review· MIT Technology Review· 2024· faithful paraphrase

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Adam Grant
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Wharton organizational psychologist
Anna Lauren Hoffmann
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UW iSchool; 'data violence' theorist
Anton Korinek
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UVA economist; AI and inequality
Brian Merchant
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Tech writer; 'Blood in the Machine' author
Clay Shirky
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NYU emeritus; 'Here Comes Everybody', 'Cognitive Surplus'
Cynthia Breazeal
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MIT Media Lab; social robotics; founder Jibo

Record last updated 2026-04-25.