David Weinberger, Ph.D. writes about the effect of technology — especially AI and the Internet — on our ideas about ourselves, our world, and business. Since 2016 he has focused his attention on the philosophical implications of AI. In Oct, 2026, his sixth book will come out, exploring how AI may be shaping our ideas about morality and fairness, free will, creativity, knowledge, and more, including reality itself.
His prior book, "Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We're Thriving in a New World of Possibility" (Harvard Business Review Press) argues shows how AI and the Internet have already transformed our understanding of how the future happensHis other books include 2000's best-selling The Cluetrain Manifesto (co-author) that foretold the the social nature of the Internet, Small Pieces Loosely Joined about the effect of the Web's architecture on our ideas, Everything is Miscellaneous about the wholesale changes in how we organize ideas things and ideas, and Too Big to Know about the fate of knowledge.
Currently an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center, he began as a Fellow in 2004, and has been a senior researcher, and member of the Fellows Advisory Board at the Center. He is also a researcher at Harvard's metaLAB. With a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto), and with decades of experience in the tech industry, he has been a co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, and a journalism fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center. He has also been an executive and adviser to innovative high tech companies, as well as to presidential campaigns, and a Franklin Fellow at the U.S. State Department. He recently spent four years embedded as a writer-in-residence in Google Responsible AI groups. He edits the Strong Ideas open access book series for MIT Press. For more information, his home page is https://weinberger.org which includes a link to his writings.
