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Carl Miller is best known as the host and writer of smash hit true-crime podcast Kill List, which reached the top ten of the UK podcast charts in Autumn 2025. It tells the story of how he discovered a secret Kill list targeting hundreds of innocent people on a murder for hire website on the dark net. When law enforcement fails to take it seriously, Carl is thrown into a race against time to warn those in danger and uncover the truth about the people who want them dead.
Carl Miller speaks to audiences around the world about how the digital revolution is causing power structures to crumble and evolve. HeтАЩs spoken in Parliament, to NATO, the Hay Literary Festival, Oxford University, the British Academy, the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, Wired, Shell, the Mayor of London, and Latitude. HeтАЩs delivered keynotes at major international events in Chicago, Bangkok, Berlin, Vienna, Oslo, Leiden, Berlin, San Francisco, Riga, Prague and Ottawa.
Carl MillerтАЩs debut book is The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab. In it, he traces how new, digital forms of power have chipped away at the old, familiar places where power used to sit; scaring CEOs, forcing politicians to resign, swallowing up newspapers, eclipsing experts, and pulling down companies. It won the 2019 Transmission prize. From living in a political technology commune to visiting an information warfare base, meeting fake news merchants in Kosovo, hikikomori in South Korea, digital democrats in Taiwan, hackers in Las Vegas to assassination markets on the dark net, these are CarlтАЩs long-term, immersive investigations.
Over the last 15 years, Carl Miller has led over 40 major projects to research the digital world. He highlighted the influence of conspiracy theories in 2010, called for digital literacy education in 2012. He warned about the rise of crypto-currencies in 2013, and how the digital world was transforming policing.
With the former Director of GCHQ, he coined тАШSOCMINTтАЩ тАУ social media intelligence. In 2015 he led a team monitoring the rise of digital politics over the General Election. In 2016 he worked on using machine learning to measure how social media was targeting minority groups for abuse. From 2019 onwards, he has focussed on confronting the rise of shadowy forms of influence, disinformation and information warfare.
Carl Miller combines immersive first-person story-telling with data and evidence to talk to audiences about the real dangers and opportunities that new technology have created. He draws on links and contrasts between dozens of investigations, from time with police cyber-crime teams to cyber-criminals, information warfare officers, spoken with fake news merchants, presidents, spies and digital ministers.
These voices come together on the stage to help audiences understand how every single aspect of our lives are changing in often unseen yet important ways: who is really in control of AI, how crime has completely transformed, the way that disinformation really works, how democracies are embattled and politics is in upheaval, how professional journalism is being choked and changed, digital geopolitics, and how business in the digital age sits on a knife-edge between two visions.
