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“There’s nothing like a long plane journey to rediscover the joys of reading an entire book in one sitting and I have just had that pleasure, understanding the dangers of where AI might take us”… Anne Sebba in the Guardian on Madhumita Murgia’s CODE DEPENDENT, out 21st March

Longlist for the wonderful #WomensPrize for Fiction - and Chetna Maroo's hauntingly beautiful WESTERN LANE is one of these sixteen novels✨😍🎉

And huge congrats to #ChetnaMaroo for the #WomensPrize longlisting of Booker-shortlisted #WesternLane! Ravi Mirchandani Picador Books Women's Prize

A joy to be twinned with Chetna, whose book I loved. Thanks to Ravi Mirchandani for helping bring my book into the world, and introducing me to Chetna’s!

“The scope of Murgia’s reporting here, reflective of her day job, is vast”. “Murgia also argues that we are seeing the emergence of a new data colonialism”. Book of the Day in the Guardian for Madhumita Murgia’s CODE DEPENDENT, just published by Picador.

“A chilling and essential read about AI and the way it imports and exacerbates existing social inequalities.” ~ Professor Nicola Rollock Absolutely thrilled that Madhumita Murgia’s CODE-DEPENDENT has been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction!

Hurrah to Madhumita Murgia and Picador on a double triumph: a wonderful book launch tonight at Waterstones Trafalgar Square for CODE DEPENDENT, and the additional joy of launching off the back of shortlisting for the Women’s Prize for Non Fiction Congratulations Madhumita Murgia !

“…CODE DEPENDENT is the NO LOGO of the 2020s. Whereas Naomi Klein warned against big corporations and consumerism, Murgia’s deep concern is for the global precariat whose invisible labour and data-logged lives feed the hungry US AI machines”. Book of the Week in Times today

Over weeks of speaking to current & former employees, analysts, critics and competitors, Financial Times⁩’s account of what is holding Google back from capitalising on generative AI, an area it was primed to dominate. Today’s Big Read w/⁦⁦RichardWaters⁩ on.ft.com/3TJbZmB

My news. Very sad to be leaving Picador; excited to be joining Summit/Simon & Schuster

No 9! Huge congratulations to Madhumita Murgia on entering the Times bestseller list today with CODE DEPENDENT, her incisive analysis of the human cost of AI. A big hurrah also to everyone at Picador UK, notably Ravi Mirchandani, Siobhan Slattery and Emma Bravo.

“… leaving the bubble of Silicon Valley far behind, she wants to know what happens when AI is pulled into the messy tangle of human life”. Great Literary Review appraisal by Carl Miller of Madhumita Murgia’s CODE DEPENDENT, just out in the UK from Picador.

Here is a load of patriots robbing Lush, don't retweet it wouldn't want them to get in trouble.

You know who else should be on trial for the UK’s far-right riots? Elon Musk theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A conversation with Nathalie Cabrol about her book THE SECRET LIFE OF THE UNIVERSE, which is out this week in English, translated by her.

I am thinking of two of Guru Nanak's keywords 'nirbhau' and 'nirvair' - 'without fear' and 'without enmity'. I'm hoping that they can somehow infuse our lives, our interactions, our politics. Today Sikhs are celebrating Guru Nanak Dev Ji's birthday. Happy Gurpurb, everyone!