Melissa Heikkilä

Melissa Heikkilä is a senior reporter at MIT Technology Review, where she covers artificial intelligence. Her stories focus on the cutting edge of AI research, how it is changing our society. She has covered the rise of generative AI and its implications for marginalized communities and artists extensively. Prior to that, she was a technology reporter at POLITICO in London and Brussels, where she covered AI policy. She was named as one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2024, and Forbes named her as one of their 30 under 30 in 2020.