After a multiyear experiment on Medium, I've reclaimed the ownership of the content on this site.
Ben Edwards
I enjoy working at startups, hiking, gaming, drinking beer, and I write sporadically here. Jena and I, have adopted 2 dogs, 2 cats, and 9 times (Minneapolis > DC > San Francisco > Central Washington)
Growth of a different kind
New Perspective on Startups, Life
Starting a business isn’t hard
It's not the starting that's important. It's the perseverance and the growing that matters.
The long and winding road that leads to a robot in every home and office
The promise of consumer robotics has been tantalizing us for the better part of the past century but we are only now nearing delivery on that commitment.
What should we be doing about artificial intelligence safety anyway?
How can we best prepare ourselves and the world for when we aren’t the most intelligent beings living on it. (The last part of a six part series on artificial intelligence)
AI and the bleak, darkness that could befall us
A litany of dangers, from autonomous weapons to an universe comprised only of paperclips. (The fifth in a six part series on artificial intelligence)