AI in Society

London South Bank University, UK

University of Twente, The Netherlands

Kyoto University, Japan

University of California, San Diego, US

Duke Clinical Research Institute, US

American University in Cairo, Egypt

University of Edinburgh, UK

University of Oxford, UK

Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

Florian Möslein is Director of the Institute for Law and Regulation of Digitalisation and Professor of Law at the Philipps-University Marburg, where he teaches Contract Law, Company Law and Capital Markets Law. He previously held academic positions at the Universities of Berlin, St. Gallen, and Bremen. Having graduated from the Faculty of Law in Munich, he also holds academic degrees from the University of Paris-Assas (licence en droit) and London (LL.M. in International Business Law). Prof. Möslein has published three monographs, around 150 articles and book contributions, and has edited fifteen books. His current research focus is on regulatory theory, corporate sustainability, and the legal challenges of the digital age.

University of Oxford, UK

Mari Sako is Professor of Management Studies at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Mari teaches and researches about global strategy, the political economy of international business, professional services, and startup ecosystems. Her most recent research examines the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on business models and the future of professional work. She is a member of the strategy board of Thomson Reuters, and a non-executive Vice President of Waseda University in Tokyo. She is the author of five books and numerous articles, and writes a regular opinion column for the Communications of the ACM.

Reichman University, Israel

Professor Dov Greenbaum is a faculty member at Reichman University in Herzliya Israel, specializing in law and technology as well as genetics. He holds positions in both the school of Law and in the soon to be established school of Medicine.  Dov is founder and director of the Zvi Meitar Institute for Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies. He is also a research affiliate in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and a lecturer in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, both at Yale University.  His expertise extends to intellectual property law, for which he is a licensed attorney, and he also holds certification as an Information Privacy Professional.

University of Western Sydney, Australia

Professor Saba Bebawi is a media and journalism scholar who has published on the role of digital journalism within social, cultural, and economic frameworks of news-making, particularly in relation to democracy building and the Global South. Her key contributions have been centered on developing innovative conceptual and theoretical frameworks to industry and scholarship for understanding how representative perspectives and voices can be included and incorporated in journalistic practice and training, with a focus on digital journalism research and computational research methods. Bebawi has authored and co-edited several books including Investigative Journalism in the Arab World: Issues and Challenges (2016) and The Routledge Companion to Journalism and the Global South (2023). She is also co-editor for the book series Palgrave Studies in Journalism and the Global South. She is Chair for the ‘Global Communication and Social Change (CCSC)’ division at the International Communication Association (ICA), and a member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts.

University of North Florida, US

Joshua C. Gellers, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Florida. He is also a research fellow of the Earth System Governance Project and expert with the Global AI Ethics Institute. Josh’s research focuses on environmental governance, rights, and technology. He has published over two dozen articles or chapters, edited a special issue of Earth System Governance on AI and Digitalization, and written two books, The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights (Routledge 2017) and Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law (Routledge 2020).

University of Oslo, Norway

Henrik Skaug Sætra is an associate professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo, Norway, where he is also the leader of the research group Regenerative Technologies. He is a political scientist with a broad and inter-disciplinary background and approach, mainly focusing on the political, ethical, and social implications of technology. He focuses specifically on the sustainability related impacts of AI, and he has published several books and numerous articles on technology and sustainable development.

New York University, US

Author of the recent book, Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, From the Afronet to Black Lives Matter, Dr. Charlton McIlwain is Vice Provost at New York University, and Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU Steinhardt. He works at the intersections of computing technology, race, inequality, and racial justice activism. He has served as an expert witness in landmark U.S. Federal Court cases on reverse redlining/racial targeting in mortgage lending and recently testified before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services about the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence on the financial services sector. He writes regularly for outlets such as The Guardian, Slate’s Future Tense, MIT Technology Review, and other outlets about the intersection of race and technology. McIlwain is the founder of the Center for Critical Race & Digital Studies, and is Board President at Data & Society Research Institute. He leads NYU’s Alliance for Public Interest Technology, is NYU’s Designee to the Public Interest Technology University Network, and serves on the executive committee as co-chair of the International Panel on the Information Environment ethics panel.

William & Mary Law School, US

Margaret Hu is the Taylor Reveley Research Professor and Professor of Law, and Director of the Digital Democracy Lab, at William & Mary (W&M) Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. She is also a research affiliate with the W&M Global Research Institute and Data Science, and Institute for Computational and Data Sciences at Penn State University. Her research interests include the intersection of national security, cybersurveillance, and AI and civil rights. She is author of multiple works on AI and the intersection of law and technology, including the edited volume, Pandemic Surveillance: Privacy, Security, and Data Ethics (Elgar) and Biometrics and an AI Bill of Rights. Previously, she served as senior policy advisor for the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and also served as special policy counsel for immigration-related discrimination in Civil Rights Division, U. S. Department of Justice, in Washington, D.C.

Carnegie Mellon University, US

Rema Padman is Trustees Professor of Management Science and Healthcare Informatics in the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Her research investigates healthcare analytics, informatics and operations for AI/ML and data-driven decision support in the context of clinical and consumer-facing IT interventions in healthcare delivery. She has published extensively, serves on editorial boards of major academic journals, and has advised healthcare projects for provider, payer, pharmaceutical, consulting, and nonprofit organizations. She is an elected Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association.

Global Centre on AI Governance

Dr. Rachel Adams is the Founder and CEO of the Global Centre on AI Governance, an Africa-based research collective shaping equitable futures, which houses the African Observatory on Responsible AI and the Global Index on Responsible AI. Rachel is a Research Associate of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, and of The Ethics Lab at the University of Cape Town. She serves on numerous international expert committees including for UNESCO, the UN, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Global Partnership on AI.

London School of Economics, UK

Dr. Fola Adeleke is a practising technology lawyer and Global Atlantic Fellow on social and economic equity at the London School of Economics. Fola is the Executive Director of the African Observatory on Responsible AI. He holds a PhD in International Investment Law and conducted his post-doctoral work as a Fellow in the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School and as a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Fola has published extensively in the area of corporate accountability, privacy, open government and human rights in the marketplace.

Digital Futures Lab, India

Urvashi Aneja is a researcher, policy analyst and entrepreneur whose work seeks to drive an equitable and just distribution of technology gains. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Digital Futures Lab, a multi-disciplinary research collective studying the societal impacts of technology transitions in India and the majority world. Her work focuses on the ethics and governance of artificial intelligence and she currently leads multiple global projects on responsible AI, including generative AI, in LMICs. She regularly advises governments and industry on technology policy, including AI governance. Her research has been cited in leading global and national media such as the MIT Technology Review, Al-Jazeera, BBC, Reuters and the Economic Times. Urvashi has a PhD from the University of Oxford.

Leah Junck is a digital anthropologist who works at the intersection of technology and inclusivity with a focus on human-technology interactions. Leah’s work is driven by a commitment to ensure that data and technologies are harnessed to benefit people and that digital advancements have a positive social impact. In addition to her ethnographic and multidisciplinary experience, Leah consults on projects that seek to advance digital and health equity. She is also editor-in-chief of the journal Anthropology Southern Africa.

University of Melbourne, Australia

Samantha-Kaye Johnston is a researcher at the University of Melbourne's Assessment and Evaluation Research Centre (AERC). Driven by an insatiable curiosity about the mind—how people think, read, and make sense of the world—she explores the intersection of critical thinking, autonomy, and technology. As a McKenzie Fellow, her research focuses on designing AI-enabled EdTech ecosystems that do more than personalize learning. She aims to create systems that empower students with autonomy, fostering their growth into independent, critical thinkers. In addition to her work at AERC, Samantha remains a visiting researcher at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. There, she leads citizen science projects that encourage individuals to think critically about themselves and their data in the context of AI-driven emerging technologies.

Northern Illinois University, US

David J. Gunkel (PhD Philosophy) is an award-winning educator, researcher, and author, specializing in the philosophy of technology with a focus on the moral and legal challenges of artificial intelligence and robots. He is the author of over 90 scholarly articles and has published thirteen books, including The Machine Question (MIT Press 2012), Robot Rights (MIT Press 2018), and Person, Thing, Robot (MIT Press 2023). He currently holds the position of Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University (USA) and Professor of Applied Ethics at Łazarski University in Warsaw, Poland.

University of Cambridge, UK

Dr. Henry Shevlin is the Associate Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, where he also serves as co-director for the Kinds of Intelligence programme. A philosopher of cognitive science and an AI ethicist, his research explores a range of themes connected to non-human consciousness and intelligence, including measurement of consciousness, moral patiency, well-being and welfare, creative intelligence, and anthropomorphism and folk psychology.

Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Matthew J. Dennis is an Assistant Professor in ethics of technology at TU Eindhoven in the Netherlands, as well as Senior Researcher in the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies research consortium (ESDiT). He currently co-directs Eindhoven Centre for the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. He has recently held visiting positions at the University of Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI (2023), Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics (2023), and University of Cambridge's Centre for the Future of Intelligence (2020). He specialises in the ethics of artificial intelligence, digital well-being, and the future of work. His recent publications focus on intercultural perspectives on the future design of emerging technologies.

Malawi University of Science and Technology, Malawi

Michael Zimba is the Executive Dean of the Malawi Institute of Technology, Lead of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and STEAM (CAIST) and Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Data Science at the Malawi University of Science and Technology.  He is an EDSAFE AI Catalyst Fellow on Safe AI in Education under the USA’s EDSAFE AI Alliance. He is an African Union's Contributing Expert on AI and STISA. Michael co-authored the AU Technical Report on AI titled “AI for Africa: Artificial Intelligence for Africa’s Socioeconomic Development”. He is also in the AU-AI-Strategy Team, developing the AU Continental AI Strategy.

York University, Canada

Dr. Hannah Johnston is an Assistant Professor at York University in the School of Human Resources Management where her research focuses on the digitalization of work. She holds a PhD in Geography from Queen’s University, Canada and has published in a wide range of labour, industrial relations, and geography journals. She was previously employed by the International Labour Organization and continues to work collaboratively with various trade unions and workers' organizations on topics including collective organizing, algorithmic management, and technological change.

York University, Canada

Valerio De Stefano is a Professor of Law, and since 2022, he has been the Canada Research Chair in Innovation, Law and Society at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto. He holds a doctorate in law from Bocconi University (2011). From 2014 to 2017, De Stefano was an officer of the International Labour Office. He then was a labor law professor at the KU Leuven in Belgium. Valerio De Stefano has published extensively on labor regulation and technology, artificial intelligence at work, and platform work. He is the General Editor of the Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal.