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Andy Z. Wang

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Beijing, Cambridge
Covers:  Higher education, US-China relations, technology, (applied) philosophy.
phd in politics @stanford • schwarzman scholar • @harvard '23

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Andy Z. Wang’s Biography

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I am currently a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University, where I'm studying China's AI and data ecosystems. I studied political theory and data science at Harvard in 2024, where I wrote for The Crimson.

Previous threads I covered include US-China tensions in the academic sphere, misconduct in Harvard's faculty, and Harvard's institutional governance. My coverage has been featured widely in outlets like the Washington Post, Chronicle of Higher Education, BBC, Science, Nature, and The Hill.

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Andy Z. Wang’s Journalist Portfolio

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Harvard Reversed Course And Offered Cornel West Consideration for Tenure After Public Outcry

Harvard Reversed Course And Offered Cornel West Consideration for Tenure After Public Outcry

In an interview with The Crimson, Professor Cornel R. West '74 said Harvard changed course following public p…

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Charles Lieber's Trial Begins Tuesday: Here's What You Need to Know

Charles Lieber's Trial Begins Tuesday: Here's What You Need to Know

Former Harvard Chemistry chair Charles M. Lieber is set to stand trial Tuesday on six federal charges related…

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Forty Percent of Surveyed Faculty Say Harvard's Standing in Higher Ed Has Fallen

Forty Percent of Surveyed Faculty Say Harvard's Standing in Higher Ed Has Fallen

Over 40 percent of respondents to The Crimson's survey of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences said they be…

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'Disrespected, Devalued, or Dismissed': Harvard's Commitment to Black Scholars

'Disrespected, Devalued, or Dismissed': Harvard's Commitment to Black Scholars

Dean of the Faculty of the Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay acknowledged in a March faculty meeting that, despi…

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150 Years, 9 Lives: Stories from The Harvard Crimson

150 Years, 9 Lives: Stories from The Harvard Crimson

In truth, the legacy of The Crimson is not contained in books; it's in the people who have sustained it. Here…

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Anthropology Prof. Urton Stripped of Emeritus Status, Barred From Campus

Anthropology Prof. Urton Stripped of Emeritus Status, Barred From Campus

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay stripped former Anthropology professor Gary Urton of hi…

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Andy Z. Wang | Writer Page | The Harvard Crimson

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By Andy Z. Wang, Adelaide Parker, Isabella B. Cho
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Crimson staff writer Andy Z. Wang can be reached at andy.wang@thecrimson.com. Follow him on X @byAZWang . Beyond Embedding Ethics: Understanding Technology and Society at Harvard I’ve spent the last few weeks speaking to College students studying technology about their impressions of the Embedded EthiCS program. I’ve been trying to answer the question: Is Harvard adequately preparing its students for this dangerous and uncertain technical future?
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Beyond Embedding Ethics: Understanding Technology and Society at Harvard Original

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By Andy Z. Wang
| The Harvard Crimson Verified
Harvard is “in dire need” of classes that help steer technology in the correct direction, Nikola Jurkovic ’25 told me in an interview. “There’s just so much energy being put into making the technology more powerful — and just so few resources being put into shaping the technology positively,” Jurkovic said. The social risks of emerging technologies are now greater than ever, and more critically, are often unpredictable.
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Harvard’s AI Guidance: A Lesson in Binary Thinking

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By Andy Z. Wang
| The Harvard Crimson Verified
Nearly sixty years ago, a revolution hit American classrooms: the portable calculator. A Science News article from 1975 claimed that for every nine Americans, there was one calculator in service. While the public rushed to purchase the new product, teachers had to grapple with a much more difficult question: How would these handheld devices change the mission and practice of education? The answers were mixed.
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