Jacob Ward is a veteran journalist covering the intersection of technology, human behavior, and social change at TheRipCurrent.com. From 2018 to 2024 he was technology correspondent for NBC News, reporting for NightlyNews, The TODAY Show, and MSNBC. He is the former editor-in-chief of Popular Science magazine, and was Al Jazeera’s science and technology correspondent from 2013 to 2018. Ward is a lecturer at the Stanford d.school, and was a 2018-2019 Berggruen Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, where he began writing The Loop: How AI is Creating a World without Choices and How to Fight Back, out now from Hachette Book Group. Ward has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, and many other publications. He’s also the host and co-writer of the landmark four-hour PBS television series Hacking Your Mind, about human decision-making, behavioral economics, and political manipulation.