Carl Miller
The mysteries of the digital age
About
Carl Miller is the founder of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos, the information integrity lab CASM Technology, and is the Chief Strategy Officer at the DISARM Foundation. He’s a Visiting Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and a Senior Research Fellow at RAND Europe. He is a member of RUSI’s States Threats Task Force, the High Level Taskforce on AI and Society at Chatham House and the Expert Group of the European Digital Media Observatory.
Speaking
Carl speaks to audiences around the world — TED, Parliament, NATO and beyond — combining immersive first-person storytelling with data and evidence to show how every aspect of our lives is changing in often unseen yet important ways.
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Information Warfare
Carl has spent a decade investigating how information spaces became theatres of war — Carl's work has taken him to NATO summits, seen Russian-aligned hacker groups arrested, and produced D-RAIL, a strategy for disrupting malign influence. His latest Demos report, GEO for Geopolitics, examines the newest front: the manipulation of AI itself.
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The Criminal Internet
Four years inside a murder-for-hire network on the dark net led to global cooperation with the FBI, 34 arrests, 28 convictions and over 180 years of prison time — and became Kill List, the #1 podcast in seven countries: winner of the Guardian's Best Podcast, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and Podcast of the Year at the British Podcast Awards.
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AI
Carl's debut book, The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab, winner of the 2019 Transmission prize, traced how digital forms of power chip away at the old places power used to sit. His work now follows that thread into AI — from Power Trip, his 5-part Intelligence Squared series on power and AI, to research on how AI models themselves are manipulated.
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Digital Democracy
Technology can renew democracy, not just threaten it. Carl is Co-Director of Waves, a digital democratic process built with Demos and Camden and South Staffordshire Councils to include thousands of people in policy decisions — carrying forward a decade of reporting on Taiwan's digital democrats and the civic hackers renewing how countries are run.
Contact
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