# Tad Friend **Entity class:** Person **Domain:** journalist and author ## Definition **Tad Friend** is a journalist and author. At ICE, joined John Browne and Marcelo Gleiser for Make, Think, Imagine. ## Projects, contributions, and institutional alignments New Yorker staff writer whose Silicon Valley reporting has covered venture capital, artificial intelligence, technology culture, life extension, and figures including Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, and Sam Altman. ## Relationships - **ICE role:** [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement]]. - **wider alignments:** The New Yorker, Silicon Valley, AI, venture capital, and technological immortality. - **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Institutional or primary profile](https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/tad-friend) - [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/)