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{{short description|American futurist and journalist}}
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| name = Amy Webb
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|10|18}}
| birth_place = [[East Chicago, Indiana]]
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| nationality = [[United States|American]]
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| spouse = {{Marriage|Brian Woolf|2008}}
| children = 1
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| notable_works = ''Data, A Love Story''<br />''The Signals Are Talking''<br />''The Big Nine''
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| occupation = Futurist, author, journalist, adjunct professor
| alma_mater = [[Indiana University Bloomington]]<br />[[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism|Columbia University]]
| website = {{URL|https://futuretodayinstitute.com/}}
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'''Amy Lynn Webb''' (born October 18, 1974)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://lccn.loc.gov/2018048107|lccn = 2018048107|isbn = 9781541773752|title = The Big Nine: How the tech titans and their thinking machines could warp humanity|year = 2019|publisher = PublicAffairs}}</ref> is an [[American people|American]] [[futurist]], author and founder and CEO of the Future Today Institute.<ref name="cvuleta">Christina Vuleta, [https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinavuleta/2017/01/18/dont-sit-back-and-let-the-future-happen-to-you-listen-to-the-signals/#6e86125818db "Don't Sit Back And Let The Future Happen To You: Listen To the Signals"], ''[[Forbes]]'', January 18, 2017.</ref> She is an adjunct assistant professor at [[New York University]]'s [[Stern School of Business]],<ref name="kjohnson">{{Cite web|url=https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/amy-webb|title = NYU Stern - Amy Webb - Adjunct Assistant Professor}}</ref> a nonresident senior fellow at [[Atlantic Council]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Nonresident Senior Fellow |url=https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/amy-webb |publisher=Atlantic Council}}</ref> and was a 2014–15 [[Nieman Fellowship|Visiting Nieman Fellow]] at [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Nieman Foundation Announces Visiting Fellows Fellows |url=http://nieman.harvard.edu/news/2014/10/nieman-foundation-announces-2014-15-visiting-fellows |publisher=Harvard}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Webb was born on 18 October 1974 and raised in [[East Chicago, Indiana]].<ref name="mmccauley">{{cite web|first=Mary Carole|last=McCauley|url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-ae-amy-webb-profile-20170127-story.html|title=Baltimorean, data-obsessive Amy Webb IDs tech trends that will disrupt tomorrow|work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|date=January 27, 2017|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202011021/http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-ae-amy-webb-profile-20170127-story.html|archivedate=February 2, 2017|url-status=live|access-date=May 29, 2018}}</ref> Originally attending its [[Jacobs School of Music]] to study classical [[clarinet]], she earned a bachelor's degree in political science, economics and game theory from [[Indiana University Bloomington]] in 1997.<ref name="mmccauley"/><ref name=FTI>{{Cite web|url=https://futuretodayinstitute.com/amy-webb/|title=Founder and Futurist Amy Webb | the Future Today Institute|date=14 October 2019}}</ref> She moved to rural [[Japan]], where she worked as a freelance journalist and an English teacher.<ref name="mmccauley"/> She earned a master's degree from the [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]] in 2001.<ref name="mmccauley"/><ref name="gsentementes">{{cite web|last=Sentementes|first=Gus G.|title=Amy Webb brings Awesome to Baltimore |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-xpm-2010-12-26-bs-bz-interview-amy-webb-20101226-story.html |work=Baltimore Sun|date=December 26, 2010|accessdate=May 28, 2019}}</ref>

==Career==
Webb started her career as a journalist covering technology and economics. She was a reporter at ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', and then relocated to [[Hong Kong]] to work as a staff reporter with ''[[Newsweek]]'', covering emerging technologies.<ref name="mmccauley"/><ref name="gsentementes"/>
In 2006, Webb founded the Future Today Institute, a management consulting firm.<ref name="cvuleta"/><ref name="gsentementes"/> Since 2007, Webb has authored the Future Today Institute's annual Tech Trend Report, an account of the future of technologies and their impact on society.<ref name="kjohnson"/><ref>Oliver Pechter, [https://nordic.businessinsider.com/amy-webb-smartphones-will-be-gone-in-10-years-2017-10/ "Amy Webb: Smartphones will be gone in 10 years"],{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ''[[Business Insider]]'', October 30, 2017.</ref> In 2011, she co-founded Spark Camp, a leadership conference focused on the future of business, government and society.<ref>Chris Gayomali, [https://www.fastcompany.com/3032550/what-happens-at-the-ultimate-summer-camp-for-influencers "What Happens At The Ultimate Summer Camp For Influencers"], ''[[Fast Company (magazine)|Fast Company]]'', July 3, 2014.</ref>

Webb is a visiting fellow at [[Oxford University]]'s [[Saïd Business School]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Visiting Fellows |url=https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/centres-and-initiatives/oxford-university-centre-corporate-reputation/visiting-fellows |website=sbs.ox.ac.uk |accessdate=27 May 2020}}</ref> a fellow in the US-Japan Leadership Program,<ref>[http://www.usjlp.org/members/news.php?id=4245 "Meet the 2017 Delegates"], The Leadership U.S.-Japan Program, March 30, 2017.</ref> and was a delegate on the US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission, where she worked on the future of technology, media and international diplomacy.<ref name="mmccauley"/> She was a futurist consultant for the 2018 [[Hulu]] television series ''[[The First (TV series)|The First]]'', about a human mission to [[Mars]] in the 2030s.<ref>Elizabeth Howell, [https://www.space.com/40525-humans-to-mars-summit-watch-live.html "Humans to Mars Summit 2018 Launches This Week"], [[Space.com]], May 8, 2018.</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Roffman |first1=Marisa |title='The First' Creator Explains Why the Hulu Drama Took So Long to Get to Space |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/first-space-delay-explained-1143305 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=15 Sep 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Wood |first1=Molly |title=When Hollywood producers need to get the future right, they call a futurist |url=https://www.marketplace.org/2018/09/12/tech/when-hollywood-needs-get-future-right-they-call-futurist |work=[[Marketplace (radio program)|Marketplace]] |date=13 Sep 2018}}</ref> She was named to the BBC 100 Women list for 2019,<ref>{{cite news |title=Amy Webb: Three things women need to know for the year 2030 |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-50143064/amy-webb-three-things-women-need-to-know-for-the-year-2030 |accessdate=27 May 2020}}</ref> the 2017 Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 people most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led, and won the 2017 Thinkers50 RADAR Award.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thinkers50 Radar |url=http://thinkers50.com/scanning/on-the-radar |publisher=Thinkers50}}</ref> She has recommended the formation of a Global Alliance on Intelligence Augmentation, a central organization that would develop standards for what should be automated when it comes to data collection and sharing, and to visualize a future with more intelligent systems.<ref name="tr"/>

==Books==
Webb's [[memoir]] ''Data, A Love Story'' was published by [[Dutton Penguin|Dutton]] in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nonfiction Previews, Feb. 2013, Pt. 1: American Tech, from Edison to Detroit to Online Dating |url=http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012/08/prepub/nonfiction-previews/nonfiction-previews-feb-2013-pt-1-american-tech-from-edison-to-detroit-to-online-dating/ |work=[[Library Journal]] |accessdate=5 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908012416/http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012/08/prepub/nonfiction-previews/nonfiction-previews-feb-2013-pt-1-american-tech-from-edison-to-detroit-to-online-dating/ |archive-date=8 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="nstollerlindsey">Nina Stoller-Lindsey, [https://www.timesofisrael.com/she-wanted-a-husband-so-she-did-the-math/ "She wanted a husband, so she did the math"], ''[[Times of Israel]]'', February 14, 2013.</ref> The book chronicles Webb's attempts at [[online dating]].<ref name="nstollerlindsey"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Can Online Dating Lead To Love? |url=http://ideas.time.com/2013/02/14/how-to-game-online-dating/?iid=op-main-lead |journal=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |accessdate=27 February 2013 |date=14 February 2013}}</ref> Initially meeting with failure, Webb collected and analyzed data to game online dating.<ref>{{cite news |title=A New Formula For Love |url=http://cnnradio.cnn.com/2013/02/08/cnn-profiles-a-new-love-formula/ |publisher=CNN |accessdate=26 February 2013 |date=8 February 2013}}</ref> ''[[Booklist]]'' called the book "clever and inventive",<ref>{{cite book |title=Review: Data, A Love Story |url=http://booklistonline.com/Data-a-Love-Story-How-I-Gamed-Online-Dating-to-Meet-My-Match-Amy-Webb/pid=5758330 |publisher=Booklist |accessdate=5 February 2013}}</ref> and ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' deemed it an "insightful, funny journey through online dating."<ref>{{cite web |title=Review: Data, A Love Story |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-525-95380-7 |work=[[Publishers Weekly]] |accessdate=5 February 2013}}</ref> Webb's 2013 TED Talk about ''Data, A Love Story'' has been translated into 32 languages and has been viewed more than 6.7 million times.<ref name="mmccauley"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Amy Webb: How I hacked online dating TED Talk |url=http://www.ted.com/talks/amy_webb_how_i_hacked_online_dating?language=en/ |publisher=TED}}</ref>

In 2015, Harvard University published ''How To Make J-School Matter (Again)'', Webb's research on the challenges facing journalism educators and the future of journalism.<ref>{{cite web |title=Amy Webb's new approach to curriculum and classroom education |url=http://nieman.harvard.edu/books/how-to-make-j-school-matter-again/ |publisher=Nieman Foundation at Harvard University}}</ref>

Webb's book ''The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream'' was published by [[PublicAffairs]] on December 6, 2016.<ref name="kroose">Kevin Roose, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/books/review/signals-are-talking-amy-webb-whiplash-jeff-howe-joi-ito.html "For Better or Worse: New Books Forecast the Next Technologies"], ''The New York Times'', December 29, 2016.</ref><ref>Andrea Hanis, [http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/ct-signals-talking-amy-webb-bsi-20161222-story.html "'The Signals are Talking': Amy Webb teaches us to listen"], ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', December 22, 2016.</ref><ref>Brian Bergstein, [https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603207/how-to-think-like-a-futurist/ "How to Think Like a Futurist"], ''[[MIT Technology Review]]'', December 28, 2016.</ref> In the book she describes her methodology for [[strategic foresight]] and examines how [[weak signals]] become widely accepted.<ref name="kroose"/> It was selected as one of ''[[Fast Company (magazine)|Fast Company]]''{{'s}} Best Business Books of 2016<ref>{{cite web |title=The 10 Best Books of 2016 |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3066619/the-10-best-business-books-of-2016 |work=[[Fast Company (magazine)|Fast Company]]|date=23 December 2016 }}</ref> and as one of [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]]'s Best Books of December 2016.<ref>{{cite journal |title=10 best books of December 2016, according to Amazon's editors |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2016/1207/10-best-books-of-December-2016-according-to-Amazon-s-editors/The-Signals-Are-Talking-by-Amy-Webb |journal=The Christian Science Monitor|date=7 December 2016 }}</ref> It was a ''[[The Washington Post]]'' bestseller,<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/2017/07/20/5c26e746-6cb3-11e7-abbc-a53480672286_story.html?noredirect=on "Washington Post bestsellers: July 23, 2017"], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', July 21, 2017.</ref> and has been translated into Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.<ref name="mmccauley"/>

Webb's book ''The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity'' was published by PublicAffairs on March 5, 2019.<ref name="bi">{{cite news |title=An NYU professor explains why it's so dangerous that Silicon Valley is building AI to make decisions without human values |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/amy-webb-big-nine-artificial-intelligence-2019-2 |work=[[Business Insider]] |date=23 February 2019}}</ref> It won the 2020 Gold Axiom Award for Business Technology.<ref>{{cite web |title=Axiom Business Book Awards |url=http://www.axiomawards.com/86/award-winners/2020-winners |website=axiomawards.com |accessdate=27 May 2020}}</ref> In the book, she predicts best- and worst-case scenarios about [[artificial intelligence]] (AI) over the next 50 years.<ref name="vb">{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Khari |title=Amy Webb's 'The Big Nine' predicts the impact of AI and tech giants over the next 50 years |url=https://venturebeat.com/2019/03/05/amy-webbs-the-big-nine-predicts-the-impact-of-ai-and-tech-giants-over-the-next-50-years/ |publisher=VentureBeat |date=5 Mar 2019}}</ref> She uses the term G-MAFIA, which she coined, to refer to the large American publicly traded technology companies [[Google]], [[Microsoft]], [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]], [[Facebook, Inc.|Facebook]], [[IBM]], and [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]. She says that the G-MAFIA and the Chinese companies [[Baidu]], [[Alibaba Group|Alibaba]] and [[Tencent]] (known as the BAT) have the most control over the future of AI, and explains the importance of considering the best interests of humanity when it comes to AI.<ref name="bi2">{{cite news |last1=Feloni |first1=Richard |title=An NYU professor says the debate about the future of AI is distorted by 'a tremendous amount of misplaced optimism and fear' |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-future-fears-nyu-futurist-amy-webb-2019-1 |work=Business Insider |date=28 Jan 2019}}</ref><ref name="wired">{{cite news |title=The Pentagon Needs to Woo Ai Experts Away from Big Tech |url=https://www.wired.com/story/the-pentagon-needs-to-woo-ai-experts-away-from-big-tech/ |work=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |date=16 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Marvin |first1=Rob |title=What Tech Will Look Like in 2039 |url=https://www.pcmag.com/news/365676/what-tech-will-look-like-in-2039 |work=[[PC Magazine]] |date=3 Jan 2019}}</ref><ref name="tr">{{cite news |last1=Hao |first1=Karen |title=Why AI is a threat to democracy—and what we can do to stop it |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613010/why-ai-is-a-threat-to-democracyand-what-we-can-do-to-stop-it/ |work=[[MIT Technology Review]] |date=26 Feb 2019}}</ref> Excerpts of ''The Big Nine'' were published in ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'',<ref name="wired"/> ''[[Fast Company (magazine)|Fast Company]]'',<ref>{{cite news |last1=Webb |first1=Amy |title=How can we design AI for the best long-term interests of humanity? |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90312306/how-can-we-design-ai-for-the-best-long-term-interests-of-humanity |work=Fast Company |date=4 Mar 2019}}</ref> ''[[Inc. (magazine)|Inc.]]'',<ref>{{cite news |last1=Webb |first1=Amy |title=16 Uncomfortable Questions Everyone Needs to Ask About Artificial Intelligence |url=https://www.inc.com/amy-webb/big-nine-artificial-intelligence-ethics-rules-questions.html |work=[[Inc. (magazine)|Inc.]] |date=6 Mar 2019}}</ref> and ''[[Business Insider]]''.<ref name="bi"/> [[VentureBeat]] called the book "an accessible and constructive imagining of what could come next."<ref name="vb"/>

==Personal life==
Webb is Jewish.<ref name="nstollerlindsey"/> She lives in [[New York City, New York]] and [[Baltimore, Maryland]], with her husband and their daughter.<ref name="mmccauley"/>

==Bibliography==
* ''Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Match'', [[Dutton Penguin|Dutton]], 2013, {{ISBN|0-142-18045-9}}.
* ''How To Make J-School Matter (Again)'', [[Nieman Foundation for Journalism|Nieman]], 2015.
* ''The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream'', New York City, [[PublicAffairs]], 2016, {{ISBN|1-541-78823-0}}.
* ''The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity'', New York City, [[PublicAffairs]], 2019, {{ISBN|978-1541773752}}.

== References ==
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==External links==

* {{Official website|https://amywebb.io/}}
* [https://futuretodayinstitute.com/ Future Today Institute website]

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