Carl Miller

Over the past fifteen years, Carl Miller has led more than forty major research projects exploring the political, social, and security implications of the digital world. Alongside David Omand and Jamie Bartlett, he coined the term social media intelligence (SOCMINT) in 2012 and has since become one of its leading researchers. His work spans extremism, online electoral interference, radicalisation, digital politics, conspiracy theories, cyber-crime, and Internet governance.

Miller is the founder of The Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM) at Demos, the information integrity lab CASM Technology, and serves as Chief Strategy Officer at the DISARM Foundation. He is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, an Associate of the Imperial War Museum, a Senior Research Fellow at RAND Europe, and a member of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime. He also serves on the advisory board of the Global Network on Extremism and Technology, is part of the Challenging Pseudoscience group at the Royal Institution, and contributes to RUSI’s State Threats Task Force, the High-Level Taskforce on AI and Society at Chatham House, and the Expert Group of the European Digital Media Observatory.

Miller is the author of The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab, which charts how emerging digital forces are reshaping global power structures and destabilising institutions, disrupting industries, and challenging traditional authority. The book won the 2019 Transmission Prize. He is the presenter of Power Trip: The Age of AI for Intelligence Squared and was a regular presenter on the BBC’s flagship technology programme, Click. His writing has appeared in The Economist, The Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Literary Review, Wired, New Scientist, The Telegraph, The Atlantic, and The Guardian.

In 2024, Miller released Kill List, an 18-part podcast documenting his five-year investigation into a dark-web murder-for-hire marketplace. The series reached number one in seven countries, was named The Guardian’s Best Podcast of 2024, and won Podcast of the Year 2025 at the Broadcast Press Guild Awards.

Miller studied history at the University of Cambridge and war studies at King’s College London where he was awarded a Master of Arts (MA) degree.