Maya Rodriguez is a columnist focusing on AI and society, with a particular interest in how algorithmic systems reshape work, culture, and political power. She studied philosophy and political science at UCLA and later joined a digital governance think tank before becoming a full-time journalist. She treats models as institutions: who designs them, who funds them, who controls them, and who absorbs their externalities.

Maya covers debates around AI regulation in the United States and abroad, the negotiations behind the EU AI Act, "AI safety" initiatives inside major labs, and the rise of algorithmic surveillance tools. She looks at both sides of the pipeline: data workers labeling content at scale and executives in Silicon Valley writing the rules. Her style is analytical and non-moralistic but uncompromising; she reconstructs arguments, hunts for contradictions, and connects press releases to their real effects on the ground.

She regularly conducts long interviews with ethicists, labor organizers, policymakers, and "dissident" engineers in large platforms. At AI-Telegraph, Maya leads the "Power & Policy" vertical, aimed at readers who refuse a purely technical view of AI and want to understand how every line of code fits inside a broader architecture of norms, incentives, and interests.