Tom Chivers

Tom is the lead writer of Flagship, Semafor. He has twice been awarded a Royal Statistical Society “statistical excellence in journalism” prize, in 2018 and 2020, and was highly commended for the same prize in 2017. He was declared the science writer of the year by the Association of British Science Writers in 2021, and has been shortlisted for the science journalist of the year by both the British Press Awards and the British Journalism Awards. His first book, The Rationalist’s Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who are Trying to Solve Humanity’s Future (originally titled The AI Does Not Hate You), was declared one of the Times’s science books of 2019, buy it now. He worked for seven years at the Telegraph and three years at BuzzFeed before going freelance in 2018, and was once described by Sir Terry Pratchett as “far too nice to be a journalist”.  He can found tweeting here.