by Andrew Maynard | Aug 12, 2026 | Blog
After eleven years in the Arizona State University School for the Future of innovation in Society, I am thrilled to announce that I am moving to ASU’s Thunderbird School of Global Management! I will be continuing to focus on my work around navigating advanced...
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 9, 2026 | Blog
If you’re interesed in exploring the work we’re doing in the ASU Future of Being Human initiative — including our vision, the ideas that are driving what we do, the scholarship it draws on, and more, we now have an extensive online knowledge based that is...
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...
