I was recently listening a conversation between Dr. Alison Gopnik, Sam Harris, and others on Waking Up (now Making Sense) and was so impressed with Dr. Gopnik’s perspective and commentary about AI that I decided to visit her website and peruse her other ideas. I was drawn to this article published in the Atlantic in 2015. […]
Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley.
She is the author or coauthor of over 100 journal articles and several books including Words, Thoughts, and Theories, MIT Press, 1997, and the bestselling and critically acclaimed popular books The Scientist in the Crib, William Morrow, 1999, The Philosophical Baby, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2009, and The Gardener and the Carpenter, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2016. The latter two won the Cognitive Development Society Best Book Prize in 2009 and 2016. She has also written widely about cognitive science and psychology for Science, The New York Times, Scientific American, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, New Scientist, and Slate, among others. Her TED talk on her work has been viewed more than 2.9 million times. And she has frequently appeared on TV and radio including The Charlie Rose Show and The Colbert Report. Since 2013 she has written the Mind and Matter column for The Wall Street Journal. She lives in Berkeley California with her husband Alvy Ray Smith, and has three children and three grandchildren.