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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.
Journalist and author of How AI Ate the World, TikTok Boom and YouTubers. Co-host of Crashed. Often on your TV and radio
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CTO of Mozilla. Previously scaled Twitter, launched self-driving cars at Uber, first CTO of the DNC. Writing about open source AI and why we should be owners, not renters.
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