- Senior Writer, WIRED1
Will Knight is a senior writer at WIRED covering artificial intelligence, and writes the AI Lab newsletter, a weekly dispatch on AI. Will was previously a senior editor at MIT Technology Review, writing about fundamental advances in AI, and before that an editor and writer at New Scientist.1
At a glance
- Current role
- Senior Writer
- Company
- WIRED
- Sector
- Company
- Fields
- Teaching and writing
- Work listed
- 1
- Sources cited
- 3
- Profile reviewed
Career
Knight wrote and edited at New Scientist magazine before joining MIT Technology Review in 2008. At MIT Technology Review Knight served as Senior Editor for AI and Robotics, covering machine learning, automated driving and robotics; WIRED's author page adds that Knight wrote about fundamental advances in AI and China's AI boom there.21
Knight is now a senior writer at WIRED covering artificial intelligence. The earliest story in Knight's WIRED author archive, about the limits of AI tools for detecting deepfakes, is dated 2019-10-02.13
Channel and publications
Knight writes AI Lab, WIRED's weekly newsletter on artificial intelligence, and many of Knight's WIRED stories run under the AI Lab label. Stories from 2026 listed on the author page cover topics such as AI systems applied to mathematics and science, new AI models, AI agents, robotics and research into how models work internally.1
Work and contributions
AI Lab (WIRED newsletter) Show, channel or publication
Writes WIRED's weekly AI Lab newsletter and reports on artificial intelligence for WIRED.1
Timeline
- Joined MIT Technology Review from New Scientist magazine.2
- Earliest story in Knight's WIRED author archive was published, on AI and deepfake detection.3
- Published a WIRED story on the arrival of a new Chinese AI model.1
- Published "AI Came for Math. Now It's Chasing the Rest of Science" under WIRED's AI Lab label.1
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.
Where they work
- WIRED 4 people in the wiki
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