Gillian Hadfield

Gillian K. Hadfield is a Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University with a joint appointment in the School of Government and Policy. Her research is focused on innovative design for legal and regulatory systems for AI and other complex global technologies, computational models of human normative systems, and working with machine learning (ML) researchers to build ML systems that understand and respond to human values and norms.In addition to her roles at Johns Hopkins University, Hadfield is a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research AI Chair, faculty at the Vector Institute in Toronto, and a faculty affiliate at both the University of California, Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI and the University of Toronto Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, where she previously served as its inaugural director and held the Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society.Among Hadfield’s awards and honors are the 2024 Carolyn Tuohy Impact on Public Policy Award and President’s Impact Award from the University of Toronto; the 2019 Mundell Medal for Excellence in Legal Writing for her book, Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy; and a 2018 Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award. She was additionally named to Maclean’s 2024 The Power List: AI.