About Me
Madhumita Murgia is an award-winning journalist and author who writes about technology and society. She is currently the FT's first Artificial Intelligence Editor, where she covers cutting-edge developments in AI globally and broader issues including surveillance, data privacy and tech regulation. She has spent the past decade travelling the world from Silicon Valley to Seoul, writing about the people, start-ups and corporations shaping cutting edge technologies, for publications including WIRED, the Washington Post, Newsweek and the Telegraph. She appears frequently on national radio and TV in the UK, including on BBC News, Radio 4 and Sky News. Her TEDx Talk, about her personal data being sold by data brokers has been viewed by nearly 200,000 people online. Madhu studied biology and clinical immunology at Oxford University and holds a Masters in journalism at New York University. Her first book, CODE DEPENDENT, has been shortlisted for the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.
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Open Science
The Open Science movement stretches back to 17th-century Europe, when scientists began sharing resources with each other to keep up with the surging demand for scientific knowledge. Today, the alliance of Open Science with AI technologies promises to usher in a new era of research that is more collaborative, more transparent, and more democratic. How can we foster transparency, collaboration, and accessibility in scientific research while addressing concerns about privacy, competition, and the sustainability of academic practices?