Michael Bhaskar is a New York Times bestselling writer and publisher.

He works on Strategy and Communications at Microsoft AI, co-founded fast-growing publishing company Canelo, and was Writer in Residence at Google DeepMind. 

He is the author of several leading works of non-fiction, including the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma with the entrepreneur Mustafa Suleyman. The book is an exploration of a coming wave of new technology centred on AI. This transformation is nothing less than a step change in human capability, and the book explains how it will introduce both risks and innovations on an awesome scale.

In addition, he has written several books including prize-winning monograph The Content Machine, Curation: The Power of Selection in a World of Excess, Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking and is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Publishing. He was the lead author on the Literature in the 21st Century report. His books have been translated into thirty languages.

He has written and talked extensively about AI, technology, publishing and the future of media. He has been featured in and written for The Guardian, The FT, TIME, Fortune, MIT Technology Review, Wired and The Daily Telegraph and on BBC 2, the BBC World Service, BBC Radio 4 and NPR amongst others.

He has worked as a digital publisher, an economics researcher, a book reviewer, a technology writer and founded several web initiatives. He has published hundreds of books and produced a number of digital firsts including the first ebooks on the iPhone and the first choose your own adventure app. He has worked with organisations including Alphabet, Arts Council England, The Economist, New Scientist, the National Trust and the Wellcome Trust. He was Chair of The Book Society for three years.

Michael has a degree in English Literature from the University of Oxford where he won the University Gibbs Prize. He has been a British Council Young Creative Entrepreneur, a Frankfurt Book Fair Fellow and is currently a Visiting Researcher at the Oxford Brookes International Centre for Publishing and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

He can be found on Twitter as @michaelbhaskar.

Alongside all that he is interested in (amongst other things) "real" tennis, spicy food, hyped restaurants, literary theory, everything about the Indian subcontinent, science fiction, scuba diving, cricket, trains, opera, jungle music, mindless films, the philosophy of critical realism, infrastructure planning, visiting new countries, the spas of Budapest, French and Italian wine, and walking in both cities and the country.

But above all, his two boys.