Calum Chace is an English writer and speaker, focusing on the likely future impact of Artificial Intelligence on people and societies.
He is the author of Surviving AI, The Economic Singularity, and the philosophical science fiction novels Pandora’s Brain, and its sequel, Pandora’s Oracle.
Chace studied at Maidstone Grammar School in Kent, England. He later studied philosophy, politics, and economics (PPE) at Oxford University. His interest in AI stems from his reading of science fiction, which he describes as philosophy in fancy dress.
Prior to becoming a full-time writer and speaker in 2012, Chace had a 30-year career in journalism and business. He trained as a journalist with the BBC, and later he wrote a column for the FT. He is now a contributor to Forbes magazine. He moved into business and ran a media practice at KPMG before serving as director and CEO for a number of entrepreneurial businesses.
He has published five books on Artificial Intelligence.
In 2017, Chace co-founded the Economic Singularity Club, “a loose group of technologists, academics and writers who think the threat of mass technological unemployment is worth taking seriously”. In January 2019 the group published Stories from 2045, a collection of short stories by some of its members speculating on what the world might look like in 2045.