Prof. Joanna Bryson

The Professor of Ethics and Technology at the Hertie School is Joanna Bryson. His study focuses on the regulation of AI and ICT as well as how technology affects human interaction. He served as a professor of computer science at the University of Bath from 2002 to 2019. He has also held affiliations with the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy, the School of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim, the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oxford, the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He saw the uncertainty caused by anthropomorphized AI while working on her Dissertation, which inspired him to write "Just Another Artifact," his first article on AI ethics, in 1998. He co-authored the UK's Principles of Robotics, the first national AI ethics policy, in 2010. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA in psychology and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an MSc and MPhil in artificial intelligence (Ph.D.). Prof. Bryson is one of nine specialists that Germany has nominated to the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence as of July 2020.