Intelligent Machines Creators & Guests

Ant Pruitt is a technology professional-turned photographer, videographer, and content creator. Born and raised in South Carolina, Ant was an enterprise IT professional for more than ten years in North Carolina where he spent most of his adult life. Ant eventually turned his creativity into a small business, providing writing, photography, video, and post-production services. He handled a range of assignments, including portraits, event photography, social media marketing, and interview videos. He also worked as a freelance writer for TechRepublic, covering consumer tech, enterprise IT, and tips for beginner content creators.Ant first appeared as a guest on the TWiT network in 2017 to share tips on drone photography and video. After a cross-country move with his wife and two younger sons (the oldest son is in the Army), Ant is set to co-host some of TWiT's established podcasts, as well as develop new shows with a focus on digital photography and video.

Stacey Higginbotham is a host of This Week in Google Podcast and blogs about chips, broadband and the internet of all the things.

Leo Laporte is the host of The Tech Guy's weekly radio show and author.

Mikah Sargent is a writer, producer, and co-host of Clockwise Podcast with Dan Moren.

Jeff Jarvis is an American journalist, professor, public speaker and former television critic, he is a co-host of This Week in Google Podcast.

Paris Martineau is a reporter at The Information.

Jason Howell is a musician and co-host of Tech News Weekly.

Steven Johnson is a popular science author and media theorist.

Alex Stamos is a computer scientist, adjunct professor at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation, and the former chief security officer at Facebook.

Michael Masnick is the Founder of Techdirt.

Mathew Ingram is the Chief digital writer at Columbia Journalism Review.

Richard Hay is an artist and a former Google engineer.

Mike Elgan is a journalist, blogger, columnist, and podcaster.

Cory Efram Doctorow is a blogger, journalist, and science fiction author. He serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.

Glenn Fleischman is an author and technology reporter.

Joan Donovan is the Research Director of Media Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center.

US lawyer/geek interested in tech, international law, civil liberties & their convergence.

Molly White is the creator of the website Web 3 is Going Great.

Matthew Mullenweg is an online social media entrepreneur and web developer.