Carl Miller.
Carl Miller is an author, researcher and podcast star.
Carl is the host and writer of Kill List, a hit true-crime podcast that topped the UK charts in 2025. It follows his discovery of a secret murder for hire site on the dark net, and his race to warn those in danger when authorities fail to act. Carl is thrown into a race against time to warn those in danger and uncover the truth about the people who want them dead.
Carl has spoken at NATO, Westminster, and Oxford University as a leading voice on digital power shifts. His debut book is The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab (2019). In it, he traces how new digital forces have chipped away at the familiar places where power used to sit, scaring CEOs, pressuring politicians to resign, swallowing up newspapers, eclipsing experts, and pulling down companies. It won the 2019 Transmission prize. For 15 years, he has led over 40 projects on disinformation, cybercrime, and digital politics. His immersive storytelling combines data and real world investigations to reveal how technology is transforming crime, democracy, media, and global influence.
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Fifteen years ago, Carl founded the think tank Demos. More recently, he led a four year long secret investigation into a sophisticated network of organised criminal sites, which resulted in 34 arrests, 28 convictions and over 180 years of prison time. This became the basis of the global #1 podcast Kill List (Wondery), winner of the Guardian Podcast of the Year and the Broadcasting Press Guild Best Podcast of 2025. In this talk, Carl will show how scam networks work, create social trust, and recruit. Carl will highlight an emerging wave of criminal scams bolstered by AI generated manipulation, cryptocurrencies, and state sponsored support. Carl will portray how the threat is changing, where it is heading, who it will target and how we can best prepare.
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Information spaces are now treated as theatres of war where state aligned hacktivist groups have emerged, coordinating attacks against Western infrastructure. From AI models and hyper scalers to TikTok’s algorithm and internet protocols, technology is now a strategic asset in the geopolitical arena. Carl has been at the forefront of democratic responses, delivering keynotes at NATO summits and leading tech teams to counter disinformation. In this keynote, Carl will explore this new geopolitical terrain, the rivalries and alliances it has created, and what this theatre of war means for global risk and businesses navigating it.
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AI is reshaping power in all manners of life; sociologically, politically and economically. Chatbots are reshaping relationships, models can seamlessly summarise videos across languages, and prompting AI is perhaps the only future-proof skill left. From watching criminals using AI to dissecting addictive technology, Carl has tracked the hidden ways that technology is used to shape our lives and business. Fresh from his 5 part exploration of power and AI with Intelligence Squared, Carl will chart and diagnose the shifting power dynamics in today’s world, how AI is redistributing power and what we can all do to reclaim it.
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