Melissa Heikkilä is a senior reporter at MIT Technology Review, where she covers artificial intelligence. Her stories focus on the cutting edge of AI research, how it is changing our society. Prior to that, she was a technology reporter at POLITICO in London and Brussels, where she covered AI policy. She was named as one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2024, and Forbes listed her as one of their 30 under 30 in media in 2020.