Andrew Maynard is author of Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies, director of Arizona State University’s Risk Innovation Lab, and a professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society. He is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Agile Governance, and a contributor to the Forum’s annual review of the top 10 emerging technologies (most recently published in Scientific American). Andrew is a leading expert on technological convergence and socially responsible innovation, and he has written extensively on risks and benefits of technologies ranging from nanotechnology and synthetic biology to artificial intelligence and self-driving cars. He previously served as the chair of the Environmental Health Sciences Department at the University of Michigan, and he graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1992 with a PhD in physics.