I’m a writer, reporter and author based in Los Angeles. I write the newsletter BLOOD IN THE MACHINE. I’m also a reporter in residence at the AI Now Institute. My work has appeared in the New York Times, WIRED, Harper’s, the Guardian, and beyond. Previously, I was the technology columnist at the Los Angeles Times and the senior editor at Motherboard (RIP). I’m the author of The One Device: the Secret History of the iPhone (2017, Little, Brown) and Blood in the Machine: the Origins of the Rebellion against Big Tech (2023, Little, Brown), and a founder of VICE’s speculative fiction outlet Terraform. We published a best-of anthology, Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn, with MCD Books, in 2022.
My email is briancmerchant at gmail dot com, my Twitter is here, and my speaker’s bureau, BrightSight, can be contacted here.
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