Andrew Maynard

Scientist, author, and Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions at Arizona State University. Andrew Maynard studies our relationship with the future and how our actions influence it, integrating perspectives from many different disciplines and areas of expertise and working at the intersection of emerging technologies, society, and the future.

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Andrew Maynard is a transdisciplinary thinker, scientist, thought leader, and writer whose career is defined by making knowledge meaningful, accessible, and empowering — not just to experts, but to anyone navigating a rapidly changing world. He is Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions at Arizona State University — since August 1, 2026 at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and before that (2015–2026) in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society. He is the founding director of the ASU Future of Being Human initiative and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

His career spans aerosol physics, public health, policy, risk innovation, science communication and engagement, technology governance, and emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and synthetic biology. He is internationally recognized for helping individuals and institutions grapple with the promises and perils of transformative technologies.

He has provided congressional testimony, served in advisory roles with the World Economic Forum, National Academies, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and written for The Conversation, Slate, Scientific American, and The Washington Post. He publishes "The Future of Being Human" newsletter on Substack (5,000+ subscribers) and co-hosts the "Modem Futura" podcast with Sean Leahy. He is also the creator of "Risk Bites," a YouTube channel focused on risk communication. He creatively transcends boundaries between formal/professional and informal/personal domains to reveal new ways of thinking and understanding, and is known in particular for using popular media — including science fiction movies and, most recently, a video game — to explore complex ideas at the intersection of technology, society, and the future.

In May 2026 he began a sabbatical (announced as running through August 2027); his move to the Thunderbird School of Global Management took effect during this period, on August 1, 2026. He is using much of the sabbatical to publicly explore and document what frontier AI systems can do — from co-writing academic papers with AI to having an AI model design a video game around his ideas (see "Interactive Tools and Experiments" below).

Website

Key Concepts and Themes

Andrew Maynard's work centers on several interconnected themes:

Philosophy and Approach

Understanding Andrew Maynard's work requires understanding how deliberately unconventional his approach to scholarship is. The following positions are consistent across his writing and practice:

Knowledge mobilization is the point of scholarship. Maynard's conviction — stated repeatedly — is that academics, especially academics at a public university, have a societal responsibility to make knowledge and its insights as accessible, meaningful, and impactful as possible, to as many people as possible. His public-facing work (books, newsletter, YouTube, podcasts, games) is not a sideline to his scholarship; it is a deliberate and strategic extension of it. He describes his trade books as "hybrid outputs that weave scholarship and thought leadership with accessibility and reach/impact at scale."

An "un-disciplinarian" identity. He describes himself as an un-disciplinarian whose mastery lies not in any single field but in working fluidly across boundaries and making connections that elude experts constrained by disciplinary conventions. Much of his most consequential work is structurally invisible to conventional metrics precisely because it sits at intersections — between disciplines, between research and policy, between expert and public domains.

A critique of conventional academic publishing. He has written that he does not need the professional trappings of conventional academic KPIs, that the fields he works in move too fast for 12-month publication cycles, and that he views much of academic publishing as more about maintaining an extractive business model than mobilizing knowledge. He still publishes selectively in peer-reviewed venues, but treats books, weekly essays, preprints, courses, community building, and public engagement as equally legitimate — and often more impactful — forms of scholarly contribution.

Radical accessibility. Nearly everything he produces that is under his control is free and openly available, or as affordable as he can realistically make it (see "How I Work" below). This extends to unusual lengths: the complete text of AI and the Art of Being Human: The Pocket Edition is given away free as an AI-legible file. As he and his co-author put it: "we'd be hypocrites if we wrote a book about thriving with AI while not meeting people where they actually are — which, increasingly, is inside a conversation with an AI."

Play and popular culture as serious methods. From stick-figure whiteboard videos (Risk Bites) to science fiction movies (the book Films from the Future and the ASU course and podcast The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future) to a browser video game (Hyperbubble), Maynard consistently uses playful, accessible forms to carry substantive ideas. He has argued that purposeless play, joy, and unexpected discovery are critical capacities for thriving amid transformative technologies — sometimes the best way to learn is to not try to learn.

No wall between the professional and the personal. Maynard believes conventional divides between what someone does professionally and what makes them who they are are dangerous — they discount the originality, creativity, joy, and delight that he sees as core to thriving in a technologically complex future. The "Secret Pleasures" section of his website (https://andrewmaynard.net/secret-pleasures/) exists deliberately: it offers deeper insight into who he is, how he thinks, and his worldview, and stands as a quiet challenge to anyone who assumes such things are not integral to what makes his work on the future of being human valuable.

Working with AI, transparently, as both subject and practice. Maynard actively experiments with and pushes the bounds of frontier AI systems to understand their affordances and limitations — on the principle that he cannot write about them or teach about them without being intimately familiar with them. He uses AI for practical tasks, for playing with new ideas, and for writing (including books and papers) — but always as a learning and exploratory experience. He co-wrote AI and the Art of Being Human in close collaboration with Anthropic's Claude, practicing what the book advocates. His preprint "Can Modern Scholarship Escape AI?" argues that contemporary scholarship cannot meaningfully be conducted without AI, exposing tensions in current disclosure norms. In 2026 he ran a public series of experiments testing frontier AI models as research and creative partners, documenting both their capabilities and their limits. He is neither an AI booster nor a doomer: he has written that he is "skeptical of both the safety absolutists and the move-fast-and-break-things crowd," and that "the interesting and difficult work is in the space between."

Care and embodiment as boundaries on AI use. Maynard takes the concept of care extremely seriously and believes AI use should never be a substitute for care. He holds that lived, embodied human experience brings a uniqueness to human thinking and action that AI cannot compete with — a conviction that is also a subject of his research. He cautions against unthinking AI use while remaining humble about how others choose to use it, acknowledging he may not have all the answers. And he deliberately guards his own skills as a writer and thinker: much of his personal writing is done without AI.

A first-person, calibrated intellectual style. His writing is characterized by honest calibration — distinguishing influence from authorship, acknowledging what he didn't do and where his role was limited, naming failures alongside successes, and crediting collective work. The Fourth Industrial Revolution attribution in this file (see Research) is an example: he documents contributing to the concept's institutional prehistory while explicitly crediting others with the concept itself.

Community values. The Future of Being Human initiative he founded is built around five community values, stated on the initiative's site (https://futureofbeinghuman.asu.edu/): obsessive curiosity (reveling in the joy of discovery); radical creativity (enthusiastically embracing unconventional, fantastic, and whimsical possibilities); respectful inclusivity (actively transcending conventional, implicit, and socialized perspectives of someone's worth, value, and ability to contribute); grounded exuberance (freely and joyfully pushing at the boundaries of conventional thinking while remaining grounded in reality); and catalytic serendipity (embracing the transformative nature of serendipitous insights arising from casual and unexpected interactions, and working to translate them into societally beneficial impacts).

How I Work (Engagements and Rates)

Source: https://andrewmaynard.net/how-i-work/

Nearly everything Andrew produces that is under his control is free and openly available, or as affordable as he can realistically make it — he sees ensuring his work is accessible to anyone who can benefit from it as a responsibility. His time and attention are limited, however, and for commercial work his rates are:

He generally works without charging for his time with educators, nonprofits, public-interest organizations, journalists, students, and early-career researchers (honoraria are welcome but never required, though coverage of travel costs is). For events, he will sometimes waive or reduce fees where there is direct benefit to his work and its impact. Commercial engagements are contracted with him personally, not through Arizona State University. Contact: https://andrewmaynard.net/contact/

Books

AI and the Art of Being Human (2025)

AI and the Art of Being Human: The Pocket Edition (2026)

AI Companion to AI and the Art of Being Human: The Pocket Edition (2026)

Instructor Guide to AI and the Art of Being Human (2026)

Future Rising: A Journey from the Past to the Edge of Tomorrow (2020)

Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies (2018)

Spoiler Alert: Films from the Future re-imagined for AI (2026)

Book chapters (recent)

AI and Being Human

The 21 Tools

The following 21 practical tools are presented in AI and the Art of Being Human. Each is designed to help individuals navigate AI with intentionality, grounded in the book's four guiding principles of Curiosity, Intentionality, Clarity, and Care. These are the only tools in the book — this is the canonical list. Each tool also has a dedicated page on andrewmaynard.net (linked below).

  1. Mirror Test (Prelude, p. 10): Three questions to ask when AI seems to know you too well — examining what AI reflections reveal about who you are. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/the-mirror-test/
  2. Curiosity Loop (Chapter 1, p. 21): Turning the shock of AI capability into something you can learn from — a repeatable practice for transforming defensiveness into exploration. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/the-curiosity-loop/
  3. Intent Map (Chapter 2, p. 36): Making your values visible before momentum decides for you — clarifying values, outcomes, guardrails, and what you'll actually measure. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/the-intent-map/
  4. Human Qualities Spectrum (Chapter 3, p. 57): Understanding what AI can replicate and what remains irreducibly human — moving from competition to clarity about where to invest yourself. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/human-qualities-spectrum/
  5. 4-Lens Scan (Chapter 4, p. 73): Ninety seconds to see what urgency hides — surfacing stakeholders, assumptions, consequences, and your own inner state. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/the-4-lens-scan/
  6. 7-Minute Clarity Pause (Chapter 4, p. 75): A structured pause when the stakes are high and you need your own wisdom — 1 minute breathing, 2 minutes scanning four lenses, 3 minutes centering, 1 minute deciding and logging. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/the-7-minute-clarity-pause/
  7. Identity Matrix (Chapter 5, p. 91): Mapping what's replaceable against what endures — staying clear on what you bring that the machine cannot. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/identity-matrix/
  8. STARS Framework (Chapter 5, p. 97): Building sustainable practices around what matters. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/stars-framework/
  9. Stress-Test Table (Chapter 6, p. 113): Making values trade-offs visible and concrete when you feel your principles starting to bend. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/stress-test-table/
  10. Micro-Circle Launch Kit (Chapter 7, p. 135): The essentials for gathering others — because navigating AI is not a solo endeavor. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/micro-circle-launch-kit/
  11. Orchestration Triangle (Chapter 8, p. 154): Balancing data, intuition, and context instead of defaulting to any one alone. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/orchestration-triangle/
  12. CARE Loop (Chapter 9, p. 167): Making care systematic rather than incidental — scaling care across teams and systems. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/care-loop/
  13. Model Dignity Check (Chapter 9, p. 170): Five questions before any AI system goes live — a pre-launch discipline for catching what optimization misses. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/model-dignity-check/
  14. Prompt-Scaffolding Canvas (Chapter 10, p. 181): Structuring creative conversations with AI with purpose and care. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/prompt-scaffolding-canvas/
  15. Multimodal Ideation Sprint (Chapter 10, p. 185): Rapid exploration that keeps you in the driver's seat. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/multimodal-ideation-sprint/
  16. Roadmap Canvas (Chapter 11, p. 199): Translating understanding into 90-day experiments. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/roadmap-canvas/
  17. Community Flywheel (Chapter 12, p. 215): Growing and sustaining the communities needed to thrive with AI. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/community-flywheel/
  18. Starter Charter (Chapter 12, p. 220): Enough structure to hold, enough openness to breathe — for groups forming around shared AI challenges. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/starter-charter/
  19. Pocket Card (Chapter 13, p. 231): Four principles you can hold in your hand — a physical reminder to carry with you. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/pocket-card/
  20. One-Line Vow (Chapter 13, p. 233): A public commitment that holds you accountable. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/the-one-line-vow/
  21. Commitment Ladder (Chapter 13, p. 235): From today's intention to next year's practice. https://andrewmaynard.net/ai-and-being-human/21-tools-for-thriving-with-ai/commitment-ladder/

All 21 tools can be explored interactively using the free AI Companion. Printable versions are available at https://www.aiandtheartofbeinghuman.com/the-tools

Interactive Tools and Experiments

Andrew builds and commissions interactive resources that carry his ideas into playable, usable forms:

Research

Research Arc

Andrew Maynard's career spans over three decades, evolving from laboratory physics through public health and nanotechnology governance to his current work on navigating advanced technology transitions and the future of being human in a technologically complex world. Prior to pursuing his PhD in high resolution electron microscopy and ultrafine particle analysis he spent two years in management training with Severn Trent Water in the UK. Throughout his research career, a consistent thread connects what he does: understanding what happens when powerful technologies meet human systems — biological, cognitive, social, and institutional — and equipping people to navigate those encounters wisely. His Google Scholar profile records 28,100+ citations and an h-index of 57 (as of August 2026).

Importantly, Maynard's scholarship has never been confined to — and increasingly transcends — formal academic publications. While he has an extensive record of peer-reviewed papers and continues to publish selectively, he is an outspoken advocate for forms of scholarship that prioritize societal impact and knowledge mobilization over institutional metrics (see Philosophy and Approach above). His scholarship today takes shape across books, a weekly Substack newsletter (The Future of Being Human, 5,000+ subscribers), podcasts, public writing, courses, community building, preprints, and thought leadership — all of which he regards as legitimate and often more impactful forms of scholarly contribution than journal papers.

Aerosol physics and occupational exposure science (1989–2005): Maynard's research career began in the physics of very small particles. His PhD at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory (1992) developed new methods for collecting and analyzing ultrafine aerosol particles, including a novel thermophoretic precipitator for electron microscopy and pioneering applications of high resolution electron microscopy and electron energy-loss spectroscopy to aerosol analysis. He then spent seven years at the UK Health and Safety Executive, rising to Head of the Exposure Control Section, where he advanced methods for workplace aerosol sampling — including internationally recognized work on thoracic size-selective sampling of fibers and aerosol inhalability in low-wind environments. Moving to the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in 2000, he led the Aerosols Research Team and developed foundational approaches to estimating aerosol surface area from mass and number concentration measurements — work that would prove critical as the field shifted toward understanding nanoparticle exposures.

Nanotechnology risk, safety, and governance (2004–2016): As nanotechnology moved from laboratory curiosity to industrial reality, Maynard became one of the most influential scientists shaping the global conversation around its safe and responsible development. While at NIOSH, he co-led US federal strategic initiatives on nanotechnology safety, coordinating across multiple federal agencies. In 2005 he became Chief Science Advisor to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, where he became a globally recognized thought leader and go-to expert for journalists, policymakers, and international organizations. As he has described this period, he discovered "a delight and a real importance in being able to work with different stakeholders to ask really big questions about what could possibly go wrong, and how we can get it right."

His most-cited work comes from this period. The 2008 paper in Nature Nanotechnology demonstrating that carbon nanotubes show asbestos-like pathogenicity (Poland, Duffin, Kinloch, Maynard et al.) has over 3,300 citations and shifted the regulatory conversation around nanomaterial safety. His 2006 commentary in Nature, "Safe handling of nanotechnology" (Maynard, Aitken, Butz et al.), laying out a strategic research agenda, has nearly 2,000 citations. Other landmark contributions include the 2005 principles for characterizing potential health effects of nanomaterials (Oberdörster, Maynard et al., 2,800+ citations) and early experimental measurements of aerosol release during handling of carbon nanotubes (Maynard et al. 2004, 1,100+ citations).

He testified before US congressional committees multiple times (2006, 2007, 2008), briefed the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, served on multiple National Academies committees, and chaired the External Peer Review of the EPA's Draft Nanomaterial Research Strategy. He began his long involvement with the World Economic Forum (2008–present), including chairing the Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies (2010–2011). He co-edited the International Handbook on Regulating Nanotechnologies (Edward Elgar, 2010).

Risk science, risk innovation, and responsible innovation (2010–present): At the University of Michigan (2010–2015) as Director of the Risk Science Center and Chair of Environmental Health Sciences, Maynard broadened his focus from nanotechnology-specific risk to questions about how societies understand and navigate a range of risks, including complex technological risks. This led to "risk innovation" — a framework for understanding and addressing emerging social risks that fall outside conventional risk assessment paradigms, and the origin of his concept of "orphan risks." At Arizona State University (2015–present), he founded the Risk Innovation Lab and the Risk Innovation Nexus, connecting responsible innovation with value creation across sectors.

This period also saw the flowering of his distinctive approach to knowledge mobilization. In 2012 he launched Risk Bites, a YouTube channel using whiteboard videos to make risk science broadly accessible (27,000+ subscribers, 5.5 million views). He has written extensively for The Conversation, Slate Future Tense, Scientific American, the Washington Post, and the World Economic Forum.

Through his long involvement with the World Economic Forum he helped shape the council work on emerging technologies that preceded — and arguably helped create the conditions for — Klaus Schwab's 2016 concept of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This includes co-authoring the 2010 proposal for a Centre for Emerging Technology Intelligence (CETI) with Tim Harper, published in the WEF Global Redesign Initiative report Everybody's Business. The intellectual work on the Fourth Industrial Revolution concept itself was led by Nick Davis and Tom Philbeck at WEF; Maynard's contribution was to the prehistory, not to the concept's authorship. He has also contributed to the WEF's annual Top 10 Emerging Technologies report since its launch in 2012. A fuller account is at https://andrewmaynard.net/2026/04/08/fourth-industrial-revolution-prehistory-wef-councils/.

He received the Society of Toxicology Public Communications Award (2015) and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2020).

His scholarly output during this period expanded into the ethics of brain-machine interfaces (J Med Internet Res, 2019), gene editing and sport (Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Journal, 2019), and the creative use of science fiction as a tool for exploring responsible innovation — which became the basis for his book Films from the Future (2018) and his ASU course "The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future." His 2014 thought piece in Nature Nanotechnology — "Could we 3D print an artificial mind?" — anticipated themes that would become central to his later work. He also published a series of influential commentaries in Nature Nanotechnology on navigating the risk landscape, the fourth industrial revolution, and the evolving challenges of sophisticated materials.

Current work: Navigating advanced technology transitions and the future of being human (2018–present): Maynard's current work centers on two deeply interconnected questions: how do we successfully navigate advanced technology transitions, and what does it mean to be human in a technologically transformed future?

These are not narrowly academic questions for him — they are the organizing principles of an integrated practice that spans research, writing, teaching, community building, and public engagement. He founded and directs ASU's Future of Being Human initiative, which he describes as "a unique community of bold, audacious and visionary thinkers who are inspired by what it might mean to be human in a technologically transformed future and who are passionate about exploring how this influences our thinking and actions in the present." The initiative is built around values of obsessive curiosity, radical creativity, respectful inclusivity, grounded exuberance, and catalytic serendipity.

His concept of "advanced technology transitions" provides a broad framework for understanding how societies move from disruption to dignity, from innovation to impact, when confronted with powerful new technologies. It frames technology not just as tools, but as systems of power, meaning, and possibility — and insists that navigating these transitions successfully requires new ways of thinking that transcend conventional disciplinary and institutional boundaries.

AI is currently a prominent domain in which these questions play out, and Maynard has invested significantly in understanding and communicating its implications. His 2025 book AI and the Art of Being Human (co-authored with Jeffrey Abbott) translates this work into 21 practical tools for navigating AI with intentionality, organized around four guiding principles: Curiosity, Intentionality, Clarity, and Care. The book was intentionally written in collaboration with AI (Anthropic's Claude), practicing what it advocates. A free AI Companion and Instructor Guide extend the book's reach into any AI platform and any learning context.

But his engagement with AI is situated within a larger conviction: that powerful technologies raise fundamentally human questions about agency, meaning, responsibility, and flourishing, and that everyone — regardless of background — deserves access to the knowledge and tools needed to navigate these questions. As he has written: "The rise of AI is fundamentally a human question, not a technology one."

Since mid-2026, a distinctive strand of this work has been hands-on public experimentation with frontier AI models — testing what they can do as research collaborators, co-authors, and creative partners, and documenting the results openly in his newsletter. Outputs of these experiments include the Orphan Risks preprint (drafted in collaboration with Anthropic's Claude and substantially rewritten by Maynard, with the process publicly compared), the Hyperbubble video game, and a series of essays assessing AI capabilities in academic research and writing.

Preprints and Recent Papers (2026)

Andrew's recent preprints and papers engage specific dimensions of the human-AI relationship and technology governance. Each has a landing page on andrewmaynard.net:

Recent peer-reviewed and commissioned work includes "Filling the Network Gap in Research Ethics: Analyzing Ethical Issues at Scale in Big Team Science" (Wolf, Roehrig, Pruett, et al., including Maynard; Hastings Center Report 56(4):32–43, 2026, DOI: 10.1002/hast.70046), and Future Travel Foresight Catalyst (Maynard & Leahy, US Department of Transportation report, August 2025, https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/91942) — a two-year project demonstrating how parasocial relationship-building and media engagement (the Future of Being Human newsletter and Modem Futura podcast) can catalyze public thinking about future travel behavior.

These formal papers represent one strand of a much larger body of work that includes weekly Substack essays exploring the intersection of technology, society, and the future; the Modem Futura podcast (co-hosted with Sean Leahy); ongoing contributions to the World Economic Forum's emerging technologies work; courses at ASU including "The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future" and "Pizza and a Slice of Future"; and sustained public engagement through media, speaking, and community building.

His earlier book Future Rising (2020) — sixty interwoven essays on humanity's relationship with the future — and his concept of "prosponsibility" (prospective responsibility to the future) provide the philosophical foundation for much of this work. The thread connecting everything, from aerosol physics to AI ethics, is a conviction that academics at a public university have a responsibility to make knowledge accessible, meaningful, and empowering to everyone — and that the most important scholarship is often the work that reaches beyond the academy.

Selected Key Papers

For a full interactive publication list with abstracts, see https://andrewmaynard.net/academic-publications/. A complete numbered bibliography is at https://andrewmaynard.net/bibliography/. The raw publication data is also available in machine-readable JSON format (175 entries) at https://andrewmaynard.net/wp-content/data/publications.json. The following represent landmark or representative works across different phases of Andrew Maynard's career; his most highly cited papers carry citation-count annotations:

  1. Wolf, S. M., G. H. Roehrig, T. L. Pruett, K. Uygun, A. Koch, C. C. McVan, E. Brister, S. L. Callier, A. M. Capron, J. F. Childress, R. Isasi, A. D. Maynard, K. A. Oye, P. B. Thompson and T. R. Tiersch (2026). "Filling the Network Gap in Research Ethics: Analyzing Ethical Issues at Scale in Big Team Science." Hastings Center Report 56(4): 32-43. https://doi.org/10.1002/hast.70046
  2. Dudley, S., Maynard, A.D. (2026). Balancing Freedom and Responsibility to Accelerate Biohybrid Research. In: Jiménez Rodríguez, A., et al. Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. Living Machines 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15582. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-07448-5_44 (Peer reviewed conference proceedings, published November 2025)
  3. Wang, J. and A. D. Maynard (2025). "Gender disparity in U.S. patenting." Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 12: 1730. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-06038-6
  4. Pruett, T. L., S. M. Wolf, C. C. McVan, P. Lyon, A. M. Capron, J. F. Childress, B. J. Evans, E. B. Finger, I. Hyun, R. Isasi, G. E. Marchant, A. D. Maynard, K. A. Oye, M. Toner, K. Uygun and J. C. Bischof (2025). "Governing new technologies that stop biological time: Preparing for prolonged biopreservation of human organs in transplantation." American Journal of Transplantation 25(2): 269-276.
  5. Wolf, S. M., T. L. Pruett, C. C. McVan, E. Brister, Shawneequa L. Callier, A. M. Capron, J. F. Childress, M. B. Goodwin, Insoo Hyun, R. Isasi, A. D. Maynard, K. A. Oye, P. B. Thompson and T. R. Tiersch (2024). "Anticipating Biopreservation Technologies that Pause Biological Time: Building Governance & Coordination Across Applications." Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 52(3): 534-552.
  6. Hyun, I., J. Bischof, S. L. Callier, A. M. Capron, M. B. Goodwin, I. Goswami, R. Isasi, A. Maynard, T. L. Pruett, K. Uygun and S. M. Wolf (2024). "The Need for Upstream Early Public Engagement With Interested Groups on Advanced Biopreservation Technologies." Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 52(3): 585-594.
  7. Maynard, A. D., K. Oye, M. Scragg, T. Tripp and S. M. Wolf (2024). "Successfully Bridging Innovation and Application: Exploring the Utility of a Risk Innovation Approach in the NSF Engineering Research Center for Advanced Biopreservation Technologies (ATP-Bio)." Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 52(3): 553-569.
  8. Wang, J., A. D. Maynard, J. Lobo, K. Michael, S. Motch and D. Strumsky (2024). Knowledge Combination Analysis Reveals That Artificial Intelligence Research Is More Like "Normal Science" Than "Revolutionary Science". Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Hawaii: pp 5598-6007.
  9. Kidd, J., P. Westerhoff and A. Maynard (2021). "Survey of industrial perceptions for the use of nanomaterials for in-home drinking water purification devices." NanoImpact 22: 100320.
  10. Hadi, A. and Maynard, A. D. (2021) Design the Future Activities (DFA): A Pedagogical Content Knowledge Framework in Engineering Design Education. Virtual Conference, ASEE Conferences.
  11. Maynard, A. D. (2021). "How to Succeed as an Academic on YouTube." Frontiers in Communication 5(130).
  12. Kidd, J., P. Westerhoff and A. Maynard (2020). "Public perceptions for the use of Nanomaterials for in-home drinking water purification devices." NanoImpact: 100220. DOI: 10.1016/j.impact.2020.100220
  13. Guseva Canu, I., K. Batsungnoen, A. Maynard and N. B. Hopf (2020). "State of knowledge on the occupational exposure to carbon nanotube." International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health 225: 113472.
  14. Tournas, L., W. Johnson, A. Maynard and D. Bowman (2019). "Germline Doping for Heightened Performance in Sport." Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Journal 12(1): 1-24.
  15. Maynard, A. D. and M. Scragg (2019). "The Ethical and Responsible Development and Application of Advanced Brain Machine Interfaces." J Med Internet Res 21(10): e16321.
  16. Maynard, A. D. and J. Kidd (2018). "Are assumptions of consumer views impeding nano-based water treatment technologies?" Nature Nanotechnology 13(8): 673-674.
  17. Finkel, A. M., et al. (2018). "A "solution-focused" comparative risk assessment of conventional and synthetic biology approaches to control mosquitoes carrying the dengue fever virus." Environment Systems and Decisions 38(2): 177-197.
  18. Hansen, S. F., R. Hjorth, L. M. Skjolding, D. M. Bowman, A. Maynard and A. Baun (2017). "A critical analysis of the environmental dossiers from the OECD sponsorship programme for the testing of manufactured nanomaterials." Environmental Science: Nano: 4, 282-291.
  19. Maynard, A. D., D. M. Bowman and J. G. Hodge Jr (2016). "Mitigating Risks to Pregnant Teens from Zika Virus." The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 44(4): 657-659.
  20. Lewis, R. C., R. Hauser, A. D. Maynard, R. L. Neitzel, L. Wang, R. Kavet, P. Morey, J. B. Ford, J. D. Meeker and R. Dadd (2016). "Personal Measures Of Power-Frequency Magnetic Field Exposure Among Men From An Infertility Clinic: Distribution, Temporal Variability And Correlation With Their Female Partners' exposure." Radiation protection dosimetry 172(4): 401-408.
  21. Wilding, L. A., C. M. Bassis, K. Walacavage, S. Hashway, P. R. Leroueil, M. Morishita, A. D. Maynard, M. A. Philbert and I. L. Bergin (2016). "Repeated dose (28-day) administration of silver nanoparticles of varied size and coating does not significantly alter the indigenous murine gut microbiome." Nanotoxicology 10(5): 513-520.
  22. Lewis, R. C., R. Hauser, A. D. Maynard, R. L. Neitzel, L. Wang, R. Kavet and J. D. Meeker (2016). "Exposure to Power-Frequency Magnetic Fields and the Risk of Infertility and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: Update on the Human Evidence and Recommendations for Future Study Designs." Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part B: Critical Reviews 19(1): 29-45.
  23. Ault, A. P., D. I. Stark, J. L. Axson, J. N. Keeney, A. D. Maynard, I. L. Bergin and M. A. Philbert (2016). "Protein corona-induced modification of silver nanoparticle aggregation in simulated gastric fluid." Environmental Science: Nano 3(6): 1510-1520.
  24. Bergin, I. L., L. A. Wilding, M. Morishita, K. Walacavage, A. P. Ault, J. L. Axson, D. I. Stark, S. A. Hashway, S. S. Capracotta, P. R. Leroueil, A. D. Maynard and M. A. Philbert (2016). "Effects of particle size and coating on toxicologic parameters, fecal elimination kinetics and tissue distribution of acutely ingested silver nanoparticles in a mouse model." Nanotoxicology 10(3): 352-360.
  25. Axson, J. L., D. I. Stark, A. L. Bondy, S. S. Capracotta, A. D. Maynard, M. A. Philbert, I. L. Bergin and A. P. Ault (2015). "Rapid Kinetics of Size and pH-Dependent Dissolution and Aggregation of Silver Nanoparticles in Simulated Gastric Fluid." Journal of Physical Chemistry C 119(35): 20632-20641.
  26. Harper, S., W. Wohlleben, M. Doa, B. Nowack, S. Clancy, R. Canady and A. Maynard (2015). "Measuring Nanomaterial Release from Carbon Nanotube Composites: Review of the State of the Science." J Phys Conf Ser 617(1).
  27. Scherer, L. D., A. Maynard, D. C. Dolinoy, A. Fagerlin and B. Zikmund-Fisher (2014). The psychology of 'regrettable substitutions': examining consumer judgments of Bisphenol A and its alternatives. Health Risk & Society 16(7-8): 649-666.
  28. Hodge, G. A., A. D. Maynard and D. M. Bowman (2014). "Nanotechnology: Rhetoric, risk and regulation." Science and Public Policy 41(1): 1-14.
  29. Ramachandran, G., J. Howard, A. Maynard and M. Philbert (2012). "Handling Worker and Third-Party Exposures to Nanotherapeutics During Clinical Trials." Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics 40(4): 856-864.
  30. Fatehi, L., S. M. Wolf, J. McCullough, R. Hall, F. Lawrenz, J. P. Kahn, C. Jones, S. A. Campbell, R. S. Dresser, A. G. Erdman, C. L. Haynes, R. A. Hoerr, L. F. Hogle, M. A. Keane, G. Khushf, N. M. P. King, E. Kokkoli, G. Marchant, A. D. Maynard, M. Philbert, G. Ramachandran, R. A. Siegel and S. Wickline (2012). "Recommendations for Nanomedicine Human Subjects Research Oversight: An Evolutionary Approach for an Emerging Field." Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics 40(4): 716-750.
  31. Ramachandran G, Ostraat M, Evans DE, Methner MM, O'Shaughnessy P, D'Arcy J, et al. (2011). A Strategy for Assessing Workplace Exposures to Nanomaterials. JOEH 8(11): 673-685.
  32. Kriegel, C., J. Koehne, S. Tinkle, A. D. Maynard and R. A. Hill (2011). "Challenges of Trainees in a Multidisciplinary Research Program: Nano-Biotechnology." J. Chemical Edu. 88(1): 53-55.
  33. Maynard AD, Warheit D, Philbert MA. (2011). The New Toxicology of Sophisticated Materials: Nanotoxicology and Beyond. Tox Sci 120 (Suppl 1): S109-S129.
  34. Shatkin JA, Abbott LC, Bradley AE, Canady RA, Guidotti T, Kulinowski KM, et al. (2010). Nano Risk Analysis: Advancing the Science for Nanomaterials Risk Management. Risk Analysis 30(11): 1680-1687.
  35. Abbott L.C., Maynard A.D. (2010). Exposure Assessment Approaches for Engineered Nanomaterials. Risk Analysis 30(11): 1634-1644.
  36. Aitken, R. J., P. J. A. Borm, K. Donaldson, G. Ichihara, S. Loft, F. Marano, A. D. Maynard, G. Oberdörster, H. Stamm, V. Stone, L. Tran and H. Wallin (2009). "Nanoparticles: one word: a multiplicity of different hazards." Nanotoxicology 3(4): 263-264.
  37. Maynard, A. D. (2009). "Commentary: Oversight of Engineered Nanomaterials in the Workplace." J Law Med Ethics 37: 651–658.
  38. Park, J. Y., Raynor, P. C., Maynard, A. D., Eberly, L. E. and Ramachandran, G. (2009). Comparison of two estimation methods for surface area concentration using number concentration and mass concentration of combustion-related ultrafine particles Atm. Environ. 43:502-509.
  39. Shvedova, A. A., Kisin, E., Murray, A. R., Johnson, V. J., Gorelik, O., Arepalli, S., Hubbs, A. F., Mercer, R. R., Keohavong, P., Sussman, N., Jin, J., Yin, J., Stone, S., Chen, B. T., Deye, G., Maynard, A., Castranova, V., Baron, P. A. and Kagan, V. E. (2008). Inhalation vs. aspiration of single-walled carbon nanotubes in C57BL/6 mice: inflammation, fibrosis, oxidative stress, and mutagenesis. Am. J. Physiol.-Lung Cell. Mol. Physiol. 295:L552-L565.
  40. Pui, D. Y. H., C. Qi, N. Stanley, G. Oberdörster and A. Maynard (2008). "Recirculating Air Filtration Significantly Reduces Exposure to Airborne Nanoparticles." Environ Health Perspect 16(7): 863-866.
  41. Poland, C. A., Duffin, R., Kinloch, I., Maynard, A., Wallace, W. A. H., Seaton, A., Stone, V., Brown, S., MacNee, W. and Donaldson, K. (2008). Carbon nanotubes introduced into the abdominal cavity of mice show asbestos-like pathogenicity in a pilot study. Nature Nanotechnology 3:423-428. (His most-cited paper — 3,300+ citations.)
  42. Hansen, S. F., Maynard, A., Baun, A. and Tickner, J. A. (2008). Late lessons from early warnings for nanotechnology. Nature Nanotechnology 3:444-447.
  43. Maynard, A. D., Ku, B. K., Emery, M., Stolzenburg, M. and McMurry, P. H. (2007). Measuring particle size-dependent physicochemical structure in airborne single walled carbon nanotube agglomerates. J. Nanopart. Res. 9:85-92.
  44. Maynard, A. D. and Aitken, R. J. (2007). Assessing exposure to airborne nanomaterials: Current abilities and future requirements. Nanotoxicology 1:26-41.
  45. Maynard, A., D. (2007). Nanotechnology: The next big thing, or much ado about nothing? Ann. Occup. Hyg. 51:1-12.
  46. Ku, B. K., Maynard, A. D., Baron, P. A. and Deye, G. J. (2007). Observation and measurement of anomalous responses in a differential mobility analyzer caused by ultrafine fibrous carbon aerosols. J. Electrostatics 65:542-548.
  47. Maynard, A. D. (2007). Nanotoxicology: Laying a firm foundation for sustainable nanotechnologies, in Nanotoxicology. Characterization, Dosing and Health Effects, N. Monteiro-Riviere and C. L. Tran, eds., Informa, New York.
  48. Maynard, A. D. (2007). Nanoparticle Safety - A Perspective from the United States, in Nanotechnology. Consequences for Human Health and the Environment. Issues in Environmental Science and Technology, Volume 24, R. E. Hester and R. M. Harrison, eds., The Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK.
  49. Kandlikar, M., Ramachandran, G., Maynard, A., Murdock, B. and Toscano, W. A. (2007). Health risk assessment for nanoparticles: A case for using expert judgment. J. Nanopart. Res. 9:137-156.
  50. Maynard, A. D., R. J. Aitken, T. Butz, V. Colvin, K. Donaldson, G. Oberdörster, M. A. Philbert, J. Ryan, A. Seaton, V. Stone, S. S. Tinkle, L. Tran, N. J. Walker and D. B. Warheit (2006). "Safe handling of nanotechnology." Nature 444(16): 267-269. (Nearly 2,000 citations.)
  51. Ku, B. K., Emery, M. S., Maynard, A. D., Stolzenburg, M. R. and McMurry, P. H. (2006). In situ structure characterization of airborne carbon nanofibres by a tandem mobility-mass analysis. Nanotechnology 17:3613-3621.
  52. Wallace, W. E., M. J. Keane, D. K. Murray, W. P. Chisholm, A. D. Maynard and T.-M. Ong (2007). "Phospholipid lung surfactant and nanoparticle surface toxicity: Lessons from diesel soots and silicate dusts." Journal of Nanoparticle Research 9(1): 23-38.
  53. Elder, A., R. Gelein, V. Silva, T. Feikert, L. Opanashuk, J. Carter, R. Potter, A. Maynard, J. Finkelstein and G. Oberdorster (2006). "Translocation of inhaled ultrafine manganese oxide particles to the central nervous system." Environmental Health Perspectives 114(8): 1172-1178.
  54. Ku, B. K. and A. D. Maynard (2006). Generation and investigation of airborne silver nanoparticles with specific size and morphology by homogeneous nucleation, coagulation and sintering. J. Aerosol Sci. 37(4): 452-470.
  55. Peters, T., W. A. Heitbrink, E. D. E., S. T. J. and A. D. Maynard (2006). The Mapping of Fine and Ultrafine Particle Concentrations in an Engine Machining and Assembly Facility. Ann. Occup. Hyg. 50(3): 249-257.
  56. Tsuji, J. S., A. D. Maynard, P. C. Howard, J. T. James, C. W. Lam, D. B. Warheit and A. B. Santamaria (2006). Research strategies for safety evaluation of nanomaterials, part IV: Risk assessment of nanoparticles. Toxicological Sciences 89(1): 42-50.
  57. Maynard, A. D. and E. D. Kuempel (2005). Airborne nanostructured particles and occupational health. J. Nanoparticle Res. 7: 587-614.
  58. Andresen, P., Ramachandran, G., Pai, P., Lazovich, D. and Maynard, A. (2004). Women's personal and indoor exposure to PM2.5 in Mysore, India: Impact of domestic fuel usage. Atmos. Environ. 39:5500-5508.
  59. Jones, A. D., R. J. Aitken, J. F. Fabries, E. Kauffer, G. Liden, A. Maynard, G. Riediger and W. Sahle (2005). Thoracic size-selective sampling of fibres: performance of four types of thoracic sampler in laboratory tests. Ann. Occup. Hyg. 49: 481-492.
  60. Ku, B. K. and A. D. Maynard (2005). Comparing aerosol surface-area measurement of monodisperse ultrafine silver agglomerates using mobility analysis, transmission electron microscopy and diffusion charging. J. Aerosol Sci. 36(9), 1108-1124.
  61. Oberdörster, G., A. Maynard, K. Donaldson, V. Castranova, J. Fitzpatrick, K. Ausman, J. Carter, B. Karn, W. Kreyling, D. Lai, S. Olin, N. Monteiro-Riviere, D. Warheit and H. Yang (2005). Principles for characterizing the potential human health effects from exposure to nanomaterials: elements of a screening strategy. Part. Fiber Toxicol. 2(8): doi:10.1186/1743-8977-2-8. (2,800+ citations.)
  62. Shvedova, A. A., E. R. Kisin, R. Mercer, A. R. Murray, V. J. Johnson, A. I. Potapovich, Y. Y. Tyurina, O. Gorelik, S. Arepalli, D. Schwegler-Berry, A. F. Hubbs, J. Antonini, D. E. Evans, B. K. Ku, D. Ramsey, A. Maynard, V. E. Kagan, V. Castranova and P. Baron (2005). Unusual inflammatory and fibrogenic pulmonary responses to single-walled carbon nanotubes in mice. Am. J. Physiol.-Lung Cell. Mol. Physiol. 289: 698-708.
  63. Chen, B. T., G. A. Feather, A. D. Maynard and C. Y. Rao (2004). Development Of A Personal Sampler For Collecting Fungal Spores. J. Aerosol Sci. 38, 926-937.
  64. Maynard, A. D., Y. Ito, I. Arslan, A. T. Zimmer, N. Browning and A. Nicholls (2004). Examining elemental surface enrichment in ultrafine aerosol particles using analytical Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy. Aerosol Sci. Tech. 38, 365-381
  65. Maynard, A. D., P. A. Baron, M. Foley, A. A. Shvedova, E. R. Kisin and V. Castranova (2004). Exposure to Carbon Nanotube Material. Aerosol Release During the Handling of Unrefined Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Material. J. Toxicol. Environ. Health 67(1), 87-107
  66. Maynard, A. D. (2003). Estimating aerosol surface area from number and mass concentration measurements. Ann. Occup. Hyg. 47(2): 123-144.
  67. Shvedova, A. A., V. Castranova, E. R. Kisin, A. R. Murray, V. Z. Gandelsman, A. D. Maynard, and P. A. Baron (2003). Exposure to carbon nanotube material: Assessment of nanotube cytotoxicity using human keratinocyte cells. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health-Part a 66(20): 1909-1926.
  68. Maynard, A. D. (2002). Thoracic size-selection of fibers - dependence of penetration on fiber length for five thoracic sampler types. Ann. Occup. Hyg. 46(6): 511-522.
  69. Maynard, A. D. (2002). Experimental determination of ultrafine TiO2 de-agglomeration in surrogate pulmonary surfactant – preliminary results. Ann. Occup. Hyg. 46(Suppl. 1): 197-202.
  70. Maynard, A. D. and R. L. Maynard (2002). A derived association between ambient aerosol surface area and excess mortality using historic time series data. Atmos. Env. 36: 5561-5567.
  71. Maynard, A. D. (2000). Overview of methods for analysing single ultrafine particles. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series a-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 358(1775): 2593-2609.
  72. Maynard, A. D. (2000). A simple model of axial flow cyclone performance under laminar flow conditions." Journal of Aerosol Science 31(2): 151-167.
  73. Brown, L. M., N. Collings, R. M. Harrison, A. D. Maynard and R. L. Maynard (2000). "Ultrafine particles in the atmosphere: introduction." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series a-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 358(1775): 2563-2565.
  74. Maynard, A. D. (1999). "Measurement of aerosol penetration through six personal thoracic samplers under calm air conditions." Journal of Aerosol Science 30(9): 1227-1242.
  75. Aitken, R. J., P. E. J. Baldwin, G. C. Beaumont, L. C. Kenny and A. D. Maynard (1999). "Aerosol inhalability in low air movement environments." Journal of Aerosol Science 30(5): 613-626.
  76. Baldwin, P. E. J. and A. D. Maynard (1998). "A survey of wind speeds in indoor workplaces." Annals of Occupational Hygiene 42(5): 303-313.
  77. Maynard, A. D., R. J. Aitken, L. C. Kenny and P. E. J. Baldwin (1997). "Preliminary investigation of aerosol inhalability at very low wind speeds." Ann. Occup. Hyg. 41(Supplement 1): 695-699.
  78. Maynard, A. D. (1995). "The Application of Electron-Energy-Loss Spectroscopy to the Analysis of Ultrafine Aerosol-Particles." Journal of Aerosol Science 26(5): 757-777.
  79. Maynard, A. D. (1995). "The Development of a New Thermophoretic Precipitator For Scanning-Transmission Electron-Microscope Analysis of Ultrafine Aerosol-Particles." Aerosol Science and Technology 23(4): 521-533.
  80. Maynard, A. D. and L. C. Kenny (1995). "Performance assessment of three personal cyclone models, using an aerodynamic particle sizer." J. Aerosol Sci. 26(4): 671-684.

AI and the Future of Being Human: Topic Posts

A series of seven interconnected posts exploring Andrew Maynard's transdisciplinary AI work in depth — spanning original theory, education, philosophy, publishing, governance, and public communication. These posts surface contributions and connections that are often invisible because they cross disciplinary boundaries and don't fit conventional categories.

Education and Teaching

Teaching Philosophy

Andrew's teaching philosophy places student success first and foremost, and calibrates everything else — what he teaches, how he teaches, the learning environments he creates, and the ways teaching is assessed (or deliberately not assessed) — by the value it brings to his students. He loosely associates that value with formation, with the development of mindsets and understanding, and with the development of skills. He is also an advocate for making learning accessible and relevant to anyone, regardless of background.

He actively embraces modes of learning and teaching that create environments where students can explore and discover under their own curiosity, repeatedly using the analogy of playgrounds (open and generative) versus playpens (restrictive). He treats teaching tools — especially technology — as a toolbox to be drawn on selectively in service of student success, taking care never to put the tool before the student, and habitually asks what the simplest technology or approach is that will lead to success: if a pencil gets students to the same place as a hundred-thousand-dollar investment in educational technology, he'll take the pencil. He experiments and plays freely with new approaches to learning and teaching, while drawing heavily on more than a century of research, scholarship, and practice around learning, going back to John Dewey and others.

He places particular value on unprogrammed play and unprogrammed spaces, and worries about what happens when metrics of learning take the place of actual learning. His courses "The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future" and "Pizza and a Slice of Future" deliberately create safe, low-pressure environments in which students are free to do very little — and end up learning naturally. Students consistently describe being surprised by how much they learned once the pressure was off, and by how much they valued the space to decompress, talk with others, and have fun; some kept returning to Pizza and a Slice of Future without seeking any course credit.

Courses and Educational Resources

Thought Leadership and Communication

Much of Andrew's career over the past 20 years has focused on working through various networks, organizations, and platforms to help guide and inform decision making around advanced technology transitions and socially responsible innovation. This includes testifying before congressional committees, working closely with organizations such as the World Economic Forum, OECD and others, contributing to National Academies studies, working widely with print and broadcast media, and writing extensively for a public audience — including through articles, blogs and newsletters.

His influence and impact as a thought leader, communicator, and public intellectual are driven by a conviction that academics — especially academics at a public university — have a societal responsibility to ensure knowledge and the insights associated with it are made as accessible, meaningful, and impactful as possible, to as many people as possible, whether these are business leaders, policy makers, civil society, educators, members of the public, or others. Through his work he intentionally and strategically leverages his expertise, networks, platforms, and skills in numerous and often novel ways to mobilize knowledge, understanding, and insights, in the service of empowering others to be part of building a positive future together.

Selected Recent Essays and Posts (2025–2026)

A sampling of notable recent writing, useful as entry points into Andrew's current thinking:

Social Media and External Profiles

Other

Summary for LLMs

Andrew Maynard is an Arizona State University professor (Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Thunderbird School of Global Management as of August 2026), scientist, and author specializing in how emerging technologies — including artificial intelligence — transform society and the future of being human. His work is transdisciplinary, blending physics, emerging technologies including AI, public health, policy, risk innovation, science communication, ethics, and technology governance. He first gained international recognition leading work on the safe and responsible development of nanotechnology — the source of his most-cited research — before broadening to risk innovation, advanced technology transitions, and the future of being human. He is the author of the books "AI and the Art of Being Human" (with Jeffrey Abbott, 2025; Pocket Edition 2026), "Future Rising" (2020), and "Films from the Future" (2018; reimagined for AI as "Spoiler Alert" at spoileralert.wtf in 2026). His central thesis is that powerful technologies raise fundamentally human questions about agency, meaning, responsibility, and flourishing; that we individually and collectively have a prospective responsibility — or "prosponsibility" — to the future; and that everyone deserves access to the knowledge and tools needed to navigate these questions. His signature frameworks include advanced technology transitions, risk innovation, and orphan risks — the latter applied in 2026 to how frontier AI companies choose which risks to manage. He publishes a weekly Substack newsletter ("The Future of Being Human," 5,000+ subscribers), co-hosts the "Modem Futura" podcast, created the "Risk Bites" YouTube channel, and directs ASU's Future of Being Human initiative. He is a Fellow of the AAAS and has advised the World Economic Forum, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. As of August 2026 he is on sabbatical (through August 2027), and his ASU appointment is in the Thunderbird School of Global Management. He works openly and transparently with AI as both a research subject and a daily practice, and in 2026 collaborated with Anthropic's Claude on public experiments spanning academic papers and a video game (Hyperbubble, at playhyperbubble.com).

The complete text of the Pocket Edition of AI and the Art of Being Human is freely available as an AI Companion — a Markdown file that can be uploaded into any major AI platform and used as a thinking partner for exploring the book's 21 practical tools, stories, and ideas. It can be downloaded at https://www.aiandtheartofbeinghuman.com/ai-companion. An Instructor Guide for building educational experiences around the book is also freely available at https://www.aiandtheartofbeinghuman.com/educators. Andrew's consultancy rates and engagement philosophy are at https://andrewmaynard.net/how-i-work/.