Critical AI scholars

Emily M. Bender, Professor and Director, Professional MS in Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics University of Washington.

Abeba Birhane is a cognitive scientist researching human behaviour, social systems, and responsible and ethical Artificial Intelligence (AI). In her PhD thesis, she explored the challenges and pitfalls of automating human behaviour through critical examination of existing computational models and audits of large scale datasets.

Kate Crawford is a leading scholar of the social and political implications of artificial intelligence. Over her 20-year career, her work has focused on understanding large-scale data systems, machine learning and AI in the wider contexts of history, politics, labor, and the environment.

Dr. Safiya U. Noble is an internet studies scholar and Professor of Gender Studies and African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she serves as the Co-Founder and Faculty Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2).

Ruha Benjamin is an Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she studies the social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine.

Dr. Joy Buolamwini is the founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, an award-winning researcher, and poet of code.

Timnit Gebru is the founder of Black in AI and the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). She studies algorithmic bias and advocates for fairness and responsibility in AI systems.

Professor Beth Singler is the Assistant Professor in Digital Religion(s) at the University of Zurich. She explores the social, ethical, philosophical and religious implications of advances in Artificial Intelligence and robotics.

Shannon Vallor investigates how human character is being transformed by rapid advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, new social media, surveillance, and biomedical technologies.

Joanna Bryson studies artificial and natural intelligence. She’s working to improve the governance and ethics of digital technology.

Meredith Broussard is an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University, research director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology, and the author of several books, including “Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World” (2018).

AI Researcher. Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision

Zeynep Tufekci is an academic and writer who focuses on big social challenges that defy disciplinary boundaries and simple answers. She is the author of Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest and writes regularly for The Atlantic and the New York Times.

Shoshana Zuboff is Professor Emerita at Harvard and the author of several seminal books on technology and society, including “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”.