NEUROSCIENTIST · WRITER
I study intelligence in brains and machines.
THE BOOK
Playing with Reality
From Prussian war rooms to artificially intelligent chess players, the games we built to understand the world are now running it.
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR—THE NEW YORKER · THE ECONOMIST · THE GUARDIAN
FINALIST, PEN/E. O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD
“With the blazing mind of a scientist and the keen eye of a poet, Clancy emerges as one of the most important new writers of her generation.”
DAVID EAGLEMAN, STANFORD NEUROSCIENTIST AND AUTHOR OF INCOGNITO AND LIVEWIRED