Tom chivers telegraph biography of barack obama

Tom Chivers is a freelance science writer. He grew up in Oxford, before graduating from the University of Liverpool with a first-class degree in philosophy; he then took a Master’s degree at the King’s College London Centre of Medical Law and Ethics.^[1]

Until January 2018 he was science writer for BuzzFeed UK; before that he was a comment and features writer for the Telegraph, having joined in 2007.

His first book, "The AI Does Not Hate You: Superintelligence, Rationality and the Race to Save the World", for Weidenfeld & Nicolson, was published June 2019.^[2] Tom Chivers says the answer is not “climate change” or “nuclear weapons”, but artificial intelligence.^[3]

Since leaving BuzzFeed, he's written for the Times, the Guardian, New Scientist, the i, the Telegraph, UnHerd, politics.co.uk, and elsewhere.^[4]