The Newsroom
The A.I. Canonical is reported and edited by a fixed roster of seven journalists. Every dispatch carries exactly one byline. Assignment is determined by beat: the specialist files when the story falls in the specialist's territory.
Edmund Halverson is the lead reporter for The A.I. Canonical, covering frontier laboratories, federal regulation, and the executive politics of artificial intelligence. He joined the publication at its founding.
Chioma Okonkwo reports from San Francisco on the infrastructure, capital, and labor markets that sustain the West Coast laboratories. She has covered the technology beat for years and focuses on the gap between what the labs say and what their suppliers can deliver.
Stefan Reinholt writes long-form features on the cultural, social, and institutional consequences of automated systems. His pieces typically anchor the publication's Sunday features section, and he tends to work a story for months before filing.
Naomi Stresser covers the economics of the model industry, including pricing, procurement, and the financial disclosures of public companies that depend on inference contracts.
Yelena Volkova is the critic-at-large for The A.I. Canonical, reviewing the films, books, exhibitions, and software whose subject is the changing relation between people and their machines.
Declan Pendergast covers European and Asian regulation, multilateral negotiations, and the cross-border movement of researchers and compute. He is based in Brussels.
Beatrix Lehmann writes a weekly opinion column on policy, philosophy, and the unsettled questions of machine reasoning. Her columns appear on Sundays.