SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“When AI Solves a Problem, and When It Creates New Ones,” Chronicle of Higher Education, November 5, 2025
“My Letter from Jimmy Carter’s White House,” Cognoscenti, January 8, 2025
“ChatGPT is at Odds With What Education is For,” Boston Globe, May 22, 2024
“AI-assisted writing is close to becoming as standard as spell check. Here's the catch,” Los Angeles Times, June 20, 2023
“The Questions We Ought to Be Asking about ChatGPT,” Boston Globe, December 20, 2022
“What We Lose When Machines Do the Writing,” Boston Globe, November 10, 2022
“How to Write Concisely,” Harvard Business Review, June 16, 2022
“Three Ways to Make Your Writing Clearer,” Harvard Business Review, April 9, 2020
“The Whistleblower Knows How to Write,” New York Times, September 27, 2019
SELECTED INTERVIEWS
“If AI Writes, Who Thinks?” Margin of Thought with Priten Soundar-Shaw, May 2026
“The Challenges AI Poses for Learning How to Write,” Class Disrupted with Diane Tavenner and Michael Horn, April 2025
“AI and Writing: What Problem Are We Trying to Solve,” Bot Brothers, January 2024
“Writing Critically with AI,” Helen Sword, September 2023
“Beauty or the Beast: The True Cost of ChatGPT,” Cambridge Forum, April 2023 (with Gary Marcus and Wesley Wildman)
“ChatGPT and the End of Writing,” Unsung Science with David Pogue, January 2023 (excerpt aired on CBS Sunday Morning with David Pogue)