Gary Rivlin

Gary Rivlin (born June 20, 1958) is an American journalist and author. He has worked for several different publications, including the Chicago Reader, the Industry Standard, and the New York Times.

Rivlin grew up in North Woodmere, New York, and graduated from George W. Hewlett High School and Northwestern University.

Rivlin then wrote two books about technology, The Plot to Get Bill Gates and The Godfather of Silicon Valley. He won two Gerald Loeb Awards honoring excellence in business journalism: he earned the 2001 award in the Magazines category for the story "AOL's Rough Riders", and the 2005 award in the Deadline Writing category for the story "End of an Era".

In 2010, he published Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. — How the Working Poor Became Big Business, which The New Yorker'''s James Surowiecki described as a "blistering new investigation of the subprime economy."

In 2015, he published Katrina: After the Flood, about the immediate and long-term effects of Hurricane Katrina on the City of New Orleans.

In 2025, he published AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence'', in which he examined the explosive growth of generative AI and cautioned about the risks posed by autonomous agents operating with minimal human oversight.