Contributor

David Auerbach

David B. Auerbach is the author of Bitwise: A Life in Code (Pantheon, 2018). He is a writer, technologist, and software engineer who has worked for Google and Microsoft after graduating from Yale University. In addition to scholarship on James Joyce, William Shakespeare, and artificial intelligence, his writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, MIT Technology Review, The Nation, , n+1, Tablet, The Daily Beast, and Bookforum, among many other publications. He has lectured around the world on technology, literature, philosophy, and stupidity. He lives in New York City with his family and 5,000 books. His website is https://davidauerba.ch

Articles

A Brief Prehistory of AI & Computation

Starting December 7th, David Auerbach will be leading The New Centre Seminar From Leibniz to Google: Five Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence. It will investigate AI within the framework of philosophy where it is not simply a technological artifact but rather a part of human conceptual armature. In this short introductory essay,  Auerbach provides a background for his… Read More »