Madhumita Murgia is the Artificial Intelligence Editor for the Financial Times. Raised in Mumbai, she studied biology at Oxford before joining the Oxford team working on an AIDS vaccine, and then moved into writing by way of a science journalism MA at New York University and a first job at WIRED magazine. She joined the Financial Times eight years ago where, alongside breaking front-page stories, she’s focused on the human impact of emerging trends in technology.
Madhu won the prestigious Stern-Bryan Fellowship in 2017, instituted by literary agent Felicity Bryan and the Washington Post. She won Science & Technology Journalist of the Year at the UK Press Awards in 2024 for her stories on generative AI and its business impact, and she has been highly commended and shortlisted several times in this category.
Her first book, CODE-DEPENDENT, examining the ways algorithms are silently infiltrating all aspects of society and impacting lives around the world, was published in the UK by Picador in March, and has been shortlisted for the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction.
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