Mohar Chatterjee

A bit of news (though Playbook readers saw it first): I've just closed my chapter as Politico's AI correspondent. After years spanning engineering, VC, art and journalism, I'm taking some time to travel and write. First stop: Uruguay. My DMs are always open for a good chat!

God, copyrights, labor and the human psyche — my latest story explores how populist conservatives are responding to the AI revolution. AI is opening a MAGA-Trump split politi.co/3K0DCpY via @politico

NEW: Under pressure from DOGE, nearly all the staff of the Defense Digital Service — the Pentagon’s fast-track tech development arm — are resigning over the coming month, according to the director and three other current members of the office politico.com/news/2025/04/1… @MoharChat

@elonmusk If the Department of Education is dissolved — do you see teachers relying on AI for efficiency in the absence of federal funding?

SCOOP: Gail Slater and Michael Kratsios are handling tech policy during the Trump transition, a person familiar with the matter told me and @MoharChat. Kratsios is a former CTO in 1st Trump admin and Slater most recently has worked for Vance in the Senate. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/1…

Appreciate this Harry Potter reference in @politico's Sunday front page line up. Mine is the one about how unauthorized AI porn might just bust Congress' tech policy gridlock. politico.com/news/2024/05/2…

A team effort leads @politico's home page today. We report from back rooms across Bletchley Park in the UK, Elysée Palace in France, Kennedy Caucus Room on Capitol Hill and more on the key moments that crowned victors in high-stakes AI policy battles. politico.eu/article/ai-con…

Uncanny is accurate. uncannymagazine.com/article/lily-t…

@mattberg33 Shake the NatSec world up by only drinking mocktails with sources. Glad we'll get to read you on the regular, @mattberg33 :)

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New story! Border crossings, fentanyl, new recruits: How AI is changing the DHS. It's a sit-down with @DHSgov's AI chief, Eric Hysen. Podcast: politico-tech.simplecast.com/episodes/how-a… Print (paywalled): subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/0… @politico

Checking in to say my latest for @DigitalFuture is about how online #Russian propaganda is boosting fringe U.S. #secession movements in new demographics. The future of disinformation — this time in Mississippi politi.co/42Pfmww via @politico

Hey, listen up. Former @CFR_org intern and @politico national security reporter @alexbward has written a stellar new book called "The Internationalists." Read it. You will learn something, which the goal.... penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704738/t…

My latest with @madfernandez616 on @politico's homepage: The New Hampshire primaries tell us what AI is actually doing to the 2024 U.S. elections — and it's more complicated than expecting a misinformation hellscape. politico.com/news/2024/02/0…

Fun to see the great reporting team work from @RuthReader, @MuiChristine and @MoharChat on yesterday’s major tech CEO hearing featured on @politico’s front page!

My first 2024 @politico project: Biden used an emergency power called the Defense Production Act in his #AI executive order to monitor the world's most advanced AI models. Libertarian groups, the tech lobby & GOP lawmakers are mobilizing to stop it. politi.co/42bnOpt

Top-tier embassy content.

First in Morning Cyber: @KembaWalden is headed to venture capital firm Paladin as president of the brand-new Paladin Global Institute -- which launches today.

A unique and fascinating episode of @POLITICO Tech today. @MoharChat reports on a highly respected psychologist who was turned into an AI chatbot — and what it tells us about our identities in an AI world. politico-tech.simplecast.com/episodes/rise-…

IT'S HERE! The narrative audio version of my story about AI-generated replicas of living expert. It's soft and eerie — and it builds. A perfect January listen. Always a thrill to work with @KATabor :) open.spotify.com/episode/2lFfuF…

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@CompSocialSci @POLITICOMag Searching Google Scholar for Martin Seligman's work yields better results. A preprint for a paper they co-wrote on AI chatbot responses to emotional cuing: europepmc.org/article/ppr/pp… +2 from Seligman on his own psychbot experiments: doi.org/10.1080/174397… doi.org/10.1080/174397…

My latest is a @POLITICOMag story about AI chatbots based on living experts — and it only gets weirder from there. politico.com/news/magazine/…