Erik J. Larson is an American writer, technology entrepreneur and computer scientist. He is the author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do. He has written for The Atlantic, The Hedgehog Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Wired, and professional journals. His other projects include two DARPA-funded startups, the most recent of which is a company that provides influence rankings for colleges and universities using an influence ranking algorithm. He writes the Substack Colligo.