by Andrew Maynard | Aug 4, 2026 | Blog
What started as a test of a frontier agentic AI model became a browser-based video game that catalyzes learning through play As anyone who is following my articles on the Future of Being Human Substack will know, I’m spending a considerable amount of time...
by Andrew Maynard | May 15, 2026 | Blog
It’s surprisingly hard to find candid and comprehensive guides to what doing a PhD entails. So I created one. I’ve mentored and chaired PhD students for over 15 years. And over that time I’ve encountered so many different questions about the process,...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 12, 2026 | Blog
In 2004, I was standing in a lab at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, measuring what happened when you opened a packet of carbon nanotubes. The question was deceptively simple: do these materials become airborne in ways that could harm people?...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 12, 2026 | Blog
In July 2016, four years into running my Risk Bites YouTube channel, I drew some stick figures on a whiteboard in my office at Arizona State University, pointed a camera at them, and recorded a video explaining what nanotechnology is. It was, by any professional...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 12, 2026 | Blog
In 2006, I sat in a Congressional hearing room and testified about nanotechnology safety for the first time. The questions from lawmakers were remarkably similar to the ones I hear about AI today: Is this technology dangerous? Are the people developing it acting...
