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Madhumita Murgia

Financial Times AI editor; 'Code Dependent' author

Financial Times AI editor and author of 'Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI' (2024). Reported the working conditions of data labelers and content moderators powering frontier ML.

current AI Editor, Financial Times

Strategy positions

Near-term harms firstendorses

Documented present harms outweigh speculative existential narratives

Argues the human cost of AI's data and moderation pipelines is invisible by design and that surfacing it is essential to honest debate about AI governance.

Behind every smooth chatbot is an army of underpaid workers cleaning, labelling, and moderating data, often in the Global South. AI dependency is also dependence on this hidden workforce.
bookCode Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI· Picador· 2024· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

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Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Madhumita Murgia's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • Adam Grant

    Adam Grant

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Wharton organizational psychologist

  • Anna Lauren Hoffmann

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    UW iSchool; 'data violence' theorist

  • Anton Korinek

    Anton Korinek

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    UVA economist; AI and inequality

  • Brian Merchant

    Brian Merchant

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Tech writer; 'Blood in the Machine' author

  • Clay Shirky

    Clay Shirky

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    NYU emeritus; 'Here Comes Everybody', 'Cognitive Surplus'

  • Cynthia Breazeal

    Cynthia Breazeal

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    MIT Media Lab; social robotics; founder Jibo

Record last updated 2026-04-25.