Calum is a keynote speaker, adviser, and best-selling writer on artificial intelligence. He is a co-founder of an AI startup called Conscium, and he co-hosts the London Futurists Podcast. Calum’s talks focus on the medium- and long-term impact of AI on all of us, our societies and our economies. He advises companies and governments on AI policy.

Calum’s non-fiction books on AI are Surviving AI, about superintelligence, and The Economic Singularity, about the future of jobs. Both are now in their third editions.

Before becoming a full-time writer and speaker, Calum had a 30-year career in journalism and in business, as a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO. He studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University, which confirmed his suspicion that science fiction is actually philosophy in fancy dress.