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Transformer managing editor. Previously tech editor at the The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, digital editor at New Statesman, and assistant media editor at the Guardian.
Shakeel is the editor of Transformer, a publication about the power and politics of transformative AI. He was previously a news editor at The Economist.
I'm an ex-neuroscientist and current AI reporter at Transformer. When I'm not writing, I play bass, dance, and kiss my cats on the forehead.
Tech, policy, politics. Political editor @ The New World, Fellow @ Demos, newsletter @ techtris, PhD researcher @ UCL Laws. Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World.
A Harvard graduate and former Tarbell Fellow for journalists, I write about AI's growing influence on society.
Nathan Witkin is a research writer at NYU Stern's Tech and Society Lab, teaches elementary school full-time, and writes about philosophy, politics, and technology at his Substack, Arachne.
Julia Black is a features writer who covers the intersection of tech, politics, and culture. She has written for The New York Times, WIRED, MIT Technology Review, and others. Today she is a reporter-in-residence at the Omidyar Network.
Senior AI Policy Reporter at Transformer X/Bsky: @vronirwin IG/Threads: @vronwrites LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/veronica-irwin-009266112/ Signal: vronirwin.72 veronica(at)transformernews(dot)ai
writer on AI, science, ideas for publications like Transformer, the Wall Street Journal, American Scholar
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