Jess McHugh

Jess McHugh is an author and journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and TIME, among others. Her second nonfiction book, “Beg, Borrow, Scam,” is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.


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DATE POSTED
August 25, 2026
Feature Technology & the Human
When The AI Says To Kill
Can an AI incite a person to violence? If it can and does, who should be held accountable?
DATE POSTED
November 5, 2025
Feature Climate Crisis
The Ark-Builders Saving Fragile Bits Of Our World
Scientists and archivists are expanding their approaches to preservation — from freezing endangered species’ cells to encoding ancient languages onto disks sent int...