Shannon Bond
Shannon Bond is a correspondent at NPR covering how technology, politics, power, and influence intersect.
She previously covered technology for NPR's Business desk, focused on how Silicon Valley's biggest companies are transforming how we live, work and communicate.
Bond joined NPR in 2019. Before that, she spent 11 years as a reporter and editor at the Financial Times in New York City and San Francisco. She also co-hosted the FT's award-winning podcast, Alphachat, about business and economics.
Bond has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School and a bachelor's degree in psychology and religion from Columbia University.
She can be reached via encrypted message at shannonbond.01 on Signal.
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AI companies this weekend pushed out a new message: They want to slow down. This comes after several companies disclosed AI-related security incidents and raised concerns about the technology's future risks.
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Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman are joining calls for a slowdown amid fears the AI industry is racing toward building technology that humans can't control.
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NPR's Bobby Allyn talks about covering the prediction markets, where anyone can trade bets on the outcome of anything happening in the real world.
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2026 has already brought a wave of setbacks for social media giants as pressure grows on Big Tech from regulators and lawmakers around the world. -
The massive spending and heated rhetoric in midterm races reflect the AI industry's political fault lines and competing visions of what the future should look like. -
State officials allege a Character.AI bot claimed to be a licensed psychiatrist and provided a fake state medical license number. -
AI companies are under growing scrutiny over the potential harms chatbots can pose amid investigations into how mass shooters allegedly sought advice from the tools.
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Florida's attorney general is launching a criminal investigation into the alleged role of ChatGPT in a mass shooting at Florida State University last year. -
OpenAI is seeking to shape the public narrative about AI with the purchase of a niche talk show popular with Silicon Valley insiders. -
Advocates hope recent verdicts against social media platforms will build momentum for bigger changes in Silicon Valley.
