Senior Reporter, The Register
United States
Senior reporter at The Register with nearly 30 years of tech publishing experience. Specialty in government IT, software development, and AI ethics. Roles ranged from magazine section editor to editor-at-large. Previously at InformationWeek, Wired Magazine, and Ziff Davis. Also a software developer and fiction writer. BA Humanities from UC Berkeley, MFA Film Production from SF State. Based in San Francisco.
Thomas Claburn has recently covered the tech industry’s relationship with AI, focusing on its shortcomings, corporate misuse, and controversies—from AI companies’ use of books to platforms rejecting AI-generated code. Their reporting emphasizes skepticism toward AI hype and its impact on decision-making.