person
Melissa Heikkilä
Financial Times AI correspondent (ex-MIT Tech Review)
Financial Times AI correspondent; previously senior reporter at MIT Technology Review and Politico Europe. One of the most-read journalists on the EU AI Act and on the Global Majority's experience of AI.
current AI Correspondent, Financial Times
past Senior Reporter, MIT Technology Review
Strategy positions
Near-term harms firstendorses
Documented present harms outweigh speculative existential narrativesArgues AI's labor and bias harms are real and disproportionately affect Global Majority populations; pushes back on narratives that center only existential risk.
The conversation about AI harms is dominated by people in San Francisco. The harms themselves are most often felt by people very far from there.
Closest strategy neighbours
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.