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TIMOTHY NEELY is a novelist and technology analyst based in the Pacific Northwest. His work sits at the intersection of speculative fiction, computer science, and political theory, exploring how emerging technologies reshape human society and what those changes mean for the future of freedom and community.
Neely's career began in software engineering, where he spent a decade building machine learning systems for natural language processing and recommendation engines. He left the industry after becoming increasingly concerned about the gap between the pace of AI development and the public's understanding of its implications. His technical background gives his fiction a grounding in real research and plausible near-future scenarios, while his experience inside the technology industry provides an insider's perspective on the incentives and pressures driving AI advancement.
He is the author of three previous novels: The Last Analog Hour (a near-future thriller about the collapse of the internet), Signal and Noise (a literary novel about a family of codebreakers spanning three generations), and The Frictionless World (a satirical look at the gig economy and the surveillance state). His short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, among other publications.
Outside of fiction, Neely writes a newsletter on the social implications of artificial intelligence, read by engineers, policymakers, and enthusiasts around the world. He has been quoted as a commentator on AI ethics by outlets including Wired, The Atlantic, and MIT Technology Review, and has spoken at SXSW, the Conference on AI Safety, and the Geneva Forum on Emerging Technologies.
Neely holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington and studied political philosophy at the London School of Economics. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his partner and two remarkably opinionated cats. When not writing or researching, he can be found hiking in the Columbia River Gorge, restoring vintage synthesizers, or arguing with friends about the correct way to brew coffee.
The AI Uprising and Human Resistance is his fourth novel and the first in a planned trilogy exploring the long arc of humanity's relationship with intelligent machines. He is at work on the sequel.
