Nick Whitaker

Nick Whitaker is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he analyzes emerging technology policy with a focus on artificial intelligence.

He is an editor and founder of Works in Progress, a magazine of new and underrated ideas in science, technology, and economics. The magazine focuses on issues of economic growth and human progress. Works in Progress is a grantee of Emergent Ventures. In 2022, the magazine joined Stripe.

Previously, Whitaker was a Technology and Security Policy Fellow at the RAND Corporation and a summer fellow at the Hudson Institute. His writing has appeared in Quillette, the American Spectator, and Works in Progress. At Brown University, Whitaker graduated with honors in philosophy and a specialization in logic and language. He lives in Manhattan, NY.