Chris Hayes

Chris Hayes is the Emmy Award–winning anchor of “All In with Chris Hayes” on MS NOW and host of the podcast “Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast” and miniseries “The AI End Game: Power, Profit, and Progress.” He is also the editor-at-large of The Nation and the author of The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource. In “The AI End Game,” Hayes sits down with preeminent experts on AI and its effects to discuss the most important questions that often go unasked, helping listeners make sense of the technology during its exponential rise. Returning to the Chautauqua Lecture Series to discuss this revolutionary time in history, Hayes opens Week Two dedicated to “Applied Ethics in the Age of AI.” In addition to The Sirens’ Call, Hayes is The New York Times bestselling author of A Colony in a Nation and Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy. Previously, Hayes hosted the weekend program “Up w/ Chris Hayes,” which premiered in 2011. Prior to joining MS NOW as an anchor, he had previously served as a frequent substitute host for “The Rachel Maddow Show” and “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.” He became an MS NOW contributor in 2010 and has been with The Nation since 2007. He is a former fellow at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation, and from 2005 to 2006 was a Schumann Center Writing Fellow at In These Times. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in New York Times Magazine, TIME, Nation, American Prospect, New Republic, Washington Monthly, The Guardian and Chicago Reader. Hayes graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy.