Timothy Cook is the Director of the Cognitive Privacy Project, founder of Connected Classroom, and an elementary educator in Amman, Jordan. His book Built to Think is forthcoming from MIT Press. He writes "The Algorithmic Mind" for Psychology Today, a monthly column on cognition and technology reaching 400,000 readers, and contributes enterprise AI analysis to VKTR.

He serves on the Advisory Panel of X Reality Safety Intelligence (XRSI), advising on emerging technology governance, standards development, and research priorities including the XRSI Child Safety Initiative. He delivered the foundational grounding that opened the Council on Strategic Risks' AI and Cognition debate series, conducted a research study with Takeda Pharmaceuticals on virtual-spatial learning design, and is a founding member of the AI OpSec Collective at the Coaching Ethics Forum.

His research has been featured on the front page of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, with source interviews for RTÉ and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He has taught for fourteen years in five countries and is still in a classroom every day. That proximity to children and classrooms is the empirical foundation of the work.