I am a journalist at The New York Times and the author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. I write about the looming tech dystopia and how we can try to avoid it.

I got my start in journalism in 2008, as a writer for the legal blog Above the Law. The next year, while getting my master’s in magazine journalism at NYU, I created my own blog called The Not-So Private Parts. It was supposed be a yearlong project, but I’m still chronicling the fate of privacy in the modern age more than a decade later.

Writing about privacy led me to write about technology. How we use it. What it does to us. What happens when it works and when it doesn’t.

I’ve done first-person stories to explore new technologies, from living on Bitcoin for a week in 2015 (when it was worth $90!) to handing over all of my decision-making to generative A.I. (ChatGPT chose the color of my office walls.) But mostly, I tell the tales of other people living on the future horizon, whose experiences illuminate how life could change for us all.

I joined The Times in 2019, after having worked as an investigative reporter at Gizmodo Media Group and as a writer at Forbes Magazine.

I’ve also written for Popular Science about bitcoin and for The New Yorker about poker, a game I love to play.

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Kashmir Hill is a features writer at The New York Times and the author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. She writes about the unexpected and sometimes ominous ways technology is changing our lives.

She joined The Times in 2019, after having worked at Gizmodo Media Group, Fusion, Forbes Magazine, and Above the Law. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The Washington Post. She has degrees from Duke University and New York University, where she studied journalism.