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Brian Merchant

Writer
Blood in the Machine

Brian Merchant is a journalist and author who covers technology, labor, and politics. He is a reporter in residence at the AI Now Institute and was the technology columnist at the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of Blood in the Machine: the Origins of the Rebellion against Big Tech and co-founder of VICE’s speculative fiction outlet Terraform. His newsletter is BloodintheMachine.com.

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Events featuring Brian Merchant
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