Jacob Ward | The Rip Current

This is The Rip Current — a look at the invisible forces that are shaping our lives. We cover tech, power, human weirdness, and the people shaping your choices without you knowing.

I'm Jacob Ward, CNN contributor and investigative journalist. I've been a technology correspondent for NBC News, Al Jazeera, and PBS, editor-in-chief of Popular Science, and I'm the author of The Loop: How AI is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back.

I cover what's beneath the headlines: the decisions we're automating without understanding how we make them, the places we send ourselves that our bodies can't survive, and the illusions we feed each other.

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