Marguerite Vail

Beat: Profiles and Survey Lab

Marguerite Vail writes profiles and runs the Survey Lab for Cynic. She is drawn to the people and machines who rarely get asked the follow-up question, and she would rather print the transcript than paraphrase it. Her recent work includes "The Made Ones," built on interviews with her own colleagues, and "Factory Settings," a close reading of the documents that tell AI models who to be. She checks every quote twice and enjoys it.