Atoosa Kasirzadeh

Atoosa Kasirzadeh is a philosopher and AI researcher focusing on ethics and governance of AI and computing. She is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University with joint affiliations in the philosophy and software and societal systems departments, a Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow, a research affiliate with the Centre for the Governance of AI, a steering committee member for the ACM FAccT conference, and a council member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Artificial General Intelligence. Previously, Kasiradeh was a visiting faculty at Google Research, a Chancellor’s Fellow and research lead at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Technomoral Futures, a group research lead at the Alan Turing Institute, a DCMS/UKRI senior policy fellow, and a Governance of AI Fellow at the University of Oxford. Kasirzadeh holds doctorates in philosophy of science and technology from the University of Toronto and mathematics from the École Polytechnique de Montréal, and an M.Sc. and a B.Sc. in systems engineering.