Anil Ananthaswamy

Anil Ananthaswamy is an Indian-American award-winning science journalist, author, and the former deputy news editor at New Scientist. His writings, on physics, astronomy, quantum theory, neuroscience, and computer science, have regularly featured on publications including New Scientist, Quanta, Scientific American, PNS Front Matter, Nature, Nautilus, Matter, The Wall Street Journal, Discover, and the UK's Literary Review. In 2019, Ananthaswamy was fellow under the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2024, his latest book, Why Machines Learn, received widespread acclaim, with Nobel laureate and AI pioneer Geoff Hinton, labelling it a "masterpiece."