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Jeremy Blevins is a writer, researcher, and technology critic whose work examines the cultural and philosophical dimensions of artificial intelligence. He has written extensively on the relationship between science fiction and emerging technologies for publications including *The New Atlantis*, *Aeon*, and *The Baffler*, where his essays have explored everything from the history of the Turing test to the political economy of large language models.
Blevins holds a PhD in Literature and Science from the University of California, Davis, where his doctoral research traced the influence of cybernetic theory on postwar American fiction. He has held research fellowships at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and the Data & Society Research Institute in New York. His academic work has appeared in *Science Fiction Studies*, *Configurations*, and *Public Books*.
He is a frequent speaker on the intersections of narrative, ethics, and technology, having given talks at the Association for Computational Linguistics, the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, and the International Conference on Computational Creativity. In 2023, he served as a consultant for the National Science Foundation's public engagement initiative on AI, helping design educational materials that use science fiction as an entry point for public dialogue about the societal implications of emerging technologies.
*The Artificial Imagination* is his first book. He is currently at work on a second project examining how metaphors structure our understanding of machine learning, tentatively titled *The Statistics of Heaven*. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his partner and a cat named after the fictional computer from a 1960s television show—a decision he is willing to defend.
