The Science of Fiction
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Columnist, The Washington Post. Author, The Optimist's Telescope
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Executive Producer, Chernobyl & The Last of Us
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Philosophy Institute for Ethics in AI, Tutorial Fellow at Hertford College, University of Oxford
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