Atoosa Kasirzadeh

Atoosa Kasirzadeh is a philosopher and an AI researcher with a track record of publications on ethical AI, as well as AI safety and policy. She is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University with joint affiliations in the Department of Philosophy and the Software and Societal Systems Department. She also serves as a visiting research scientist at Google Research, holds a 2024 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 early career fellowship, and is a steering committee member for the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT) conference. Previously, she served as a Chancellor’s Fellow and director of research at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Technomoral Futures; a group research lead at The Alan Turing Institute; a senior policy fellow at the Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport/U.K. Research and Innovation; a governance of AI fellow at Oxford; and a student researcher at Google DeepMind. Kasirzadeh holds two doctoral degrees: a Ph.D. in philosophy of science and technology from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in mathematics (operations research) from the École Polytechnique de Montréal. Her research combines quantitative, qualitative, and philosophical methods to explore questions about the societal impacts, governance and future of AI and humanity. Her work, which can be found here, has been featured in major media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and TechCrunch.