About

My name is Mordechai Rorvig. I'm a former physicist and sometimes technical writer who first began working as a freelance science journalist in 2019, going on to write stories for outlets like New Scientist, Scientific American, Wired, Vice, and Nautilus. In 2022, I served as Quanta Magazine's first staff writer for AI and computer science.

Foom is a free, grant-supported website for science journalism that I launched in October 2025. With it, I'm aiming to provide independent, high-quality news and analysis for the communities concerned about the science of advanced AI, and especially the science that is motivated by profound concerns about impacts. It will focus on covering research from areas like AI safety and AI ethics, treating the two areas as co-existing priorities for coverage. You can read more about the general mission of the project, including funding sources, on the announcement post.

But, to summarize, the fundamental mission of this website is to provide science journalism as a form of public service. Just like we expect our societies to provide children with a free and high-quality education, I believe that free, high-quality resources should be provided to support people of all ages in understanding science and technology, and navigating their impacts. This is especially the case for AI, because it is both highly complex, extremely impactful, and radically commercially dominated. We need a science journalism on AI that puts readers first; that takes an independent approach towards figuring out what people ought to know about.

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