About

My name is Mordechai Rorvig. I'm a science journalist who has written 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, and in January 2025, I self-published the first book project telling the story of how deep links between brain cortexes and AI programs have been discovered. You can learn more about my background and prior work on my personal homepage.

Foom is a website that I launched in October 2025 with the aim to provide independent, high-quality news and analysis on the latest research in AI safety, and more generally, AI as seen in its ethical context. Foom seeks to serve all those readers concerned about AI impacts—ranging from the everyday impacts that are already here, to the extinction-level impacts that many worry about. Articles for this website are currently provided free and without ads thanks to a generous grant from the Effective Ventures Foundation. You can read more about Foom on its announcement post.

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Just like we expect our societies to provide a free and high-quality education—at least, for children—I believe that free, high-quality resources should be provided for people of all ages to understand scientific developments. Unfortunately, although a great deal of public funding is provided for scientists to do science, very little is provided for outside observers to assess what is being done or to provide transparency into it. This is what I try to do as a science journalist.

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Comments and feedback

I am always grateful for feedback, or for liking or sharing articles on social media, which helps me get the word out. I am also always interested in hearing about ideas for stories, albeit, ideas that are intended to serve the public, rather than any particular corporation, organization, or individual. If you have such an idea, I am here to look into it. I can be reached via email at mrorvig@gmail.com.

I practice a journalistic code of ethics, as described, for example, by the Society of Professional Journalists (link). I am strictly transparent about the use of AI for writing and editing, and I believe that others should be, also.