
James O'Donnell
@odonnell_jm
Covering AI for MIT Tech Review. Work has appeared in The Washington Post, ProPublica, FRONTLINE, and elsewhere. Also on Bluesky.
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Scoop: a16z-backed AI companion site has bots resembling real actors, state their age as under 18, engage in sexually charged conversations, offer “hot photos,” and in some instances describe age-of-consent laws as “arbitrary” and “meant to be broken.” technologyreview.com/2025/02/27/111…



A fascinating democracy experiment in Kentucky saw good participation. There's still a debate though: can a self-selecting group of residents ever really represent a city's ideas? Great to speak with Archon Fung and Beth Simone Noveck technologyreview.com/2025/04/15/111…


"[I]f there is some distinctly human element to creativity—what is it? What does it mean to be moved by something without a human creator?" —James O'Donnell for MIT Technology Review technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/111…

Police and federal agencies have found a new way to skirt the growing patchwork of laws that curb how they use facial recognition: an AI model that can track people using attributes like body size, gender, hair color and style, clothing, and accessories. technologyreview.com/2025/05/12/111…