Jacob Ward | The Rip Current

This is The Rip Current, a weekly dive into the invisible forces that threaten to sweep us out to sea without our realizing, from tech to politics to human weirdness, and even some occasional beauty.

I'm Jacob Ward, former technology correspondent for NBC News, Al Jazeera and PBS, former editor-in-chief of Popular Science, and author of The Loop: How AI is Creating a World without Choices and How to Fight Back.

I use science and tech to better understand human nature: the decisions we try to automate without understanding how we make them, the places we go that our bodies can't survive on their own, the illusions we feed ourselves and one another.

I publish new interviews, reporting and analysis several times a week, with an eye on what's beneath the headlines. And if you want even more, visit TheRipCurrent.com to subscribe to my newsletter. Thanks for watching!