Rosalind (“Roz”) Picard is an engineer, scientist, inventor, and pioneer in the field of affective computing, and the Grover M. Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is the Founder and Director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, where she teaches, mentors students, and continues to shape the future of human-centered artificial intelligence. Professor Picard’s work has advanced technologies that can sense, recognize, and respond to human emotions, enabling more natural interactions between people and machines. She co-founded two technology companies, Affectiva (acquired by Smart Eye) and Empatica, both of which translate her discoveries into practical tools, such as wearable devices that detect stress, seizures, and other physiological signals. In addition to her scientific work, Dr. Picard changed her beliefs from Atheism to Christianity and speaks frequently about the integration of faith and science. She received her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and her master’s and doctorate in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. Early in her career, Professor Picard made significant contributions to digital image processing and pattern recognition, authoring the influential book Affective Computing (MIT Press, 1997), which laid the foundation for a new field of research. She has received numerous honors, including election to the National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. John Kim is the Founder and Managing Member of the Karamaan Group, an investing firm that oversees his family interests in public and private companies, mostly in the software, technology, and blockchain industries. Before this, he was a partner at DFO Management, LLC - the investment firm of Michael Dell and his family. Dr. Kim and his family reside at Coram Deo: A House of Worship and Entrepreneurship located in midtown Manhattan. He is the Board Chair of Vineyard USA. He received his A.B. from Harvard and his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.

Professor Margo Bagley is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law.  She rejoined the Emory faculty in 2016 after a decade at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was most recently the Hardy Cross Dillard Professor of Law. In Fall 2022, she was the Hieken Visiting Professor in Patent Law at Harvard Law School and in 2025, she was the Herchel Smith Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Professor Bagley is a well-known and widely cited scholar on a variety of international intellectual property topics and is a foremost expert on international patent law issues. Professor Bagley served on both the National Academies Committee on Advancing Commercialization from the Federal Laboratories, and on the National Academies Committee on University Management of Intellectual Property: Lessons from a Generation of Experience, Research, and Dialogue. She also has served as a US Department of Commerce Commercial Law Development Program advisor, and as a member of the U.S. DARPA ELSI Team for the BRACE project. She is a member of the American Law Institute and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, as well as the Innovation Board of the EU-funded Blue Remediomics project. In addition, she is a McDonald Distinguished Senior Fellow in Law and Religion at Emory Law, a Harvard Law School Berkman Klein Faculty Affiliate, and a member of the Board of the Global IP Alliance. Professor Bagley has served as a consultant to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization Secretariat for the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and as an expert technical advisor to the African Union Commission in several World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) matters. She served for seven years as the Friend of the Chair in the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore. She is a Co-Director of the Harvard University Global Access in Action Program and has been an expert witness in several patent law disputes.  Her scholarship focuses on comparative issues relating to patents and biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and access to medicines, IP and social justice, traditional knowledge protection, technology transfer, and IP and religion.

Rev. Dr. Simon Cross works on AI for the Bishop of Oxford and the Parliamentary Unit of the Church of England’s Faith in Public Life Unit. His role encompasses the policy, regulatory, theological, ethical, and contextual aspects of AI.  He briefs and advises twenty-six Anglican bishops in the House of Lords on international governance and UK-specific digital policy and legislation. He lectures and presents across the UK on the practical and theological aspects of AI and represents the Church of England among an active consortium of UK civil society organizations researching, advocating, and lobbying for good digital regulation and the common good. His perspective on AI draws heavily from an undergraduate degree in theology; a master’s degree in science and theology at Durham University that explored the theological strengths and weaknesses of Einstein’s aphorism “God does not play dice with the universe”; and a D.Phil. from Oxford exploring the theological metaphysics of scientific perspectives on divine action. A former airline pilot, he has practical experience of the ways in which automation can identically augment or undermine human agency and believes AI’s most pressing questions all cluster at the intersection between science, philosophy, theology, and practice.

Andy Crouch is a Partner for Theology and Culture at Praxis, a venture-building ecosystem advancing redemptive entrepreneurship. His writing explores faith, culture, and the image of God in the domains of technology, power, leadership, and the arts. He is the author of five books, most recently The Life We’re Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World.

Marius Dorobantu is an Assistant Professor of Theology and Artificial Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and a Fellow of the International Society for Science & Religion. His award-winning doctoral dissertation at the University of Strasbourg, France (2020) explored the potential implications of strong artificial intelligence for theological anthropology. He is the co-editor of the Routledge volume Perspectives on Spiritual Intelligence (2024). His first monograph – Artificial Intelligence and the Image of God: Are We More than Intelligent Machines? – is in press with Cambridge University Press.

The Rev’d. Dr. Lyndon Drake is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, following on from a D.Phil. in Theology from Oxford (2023), on economics and writing in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, and a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from York (2005). At Oxford, he helps lead the Oxford Collaboration on Theology and Artificial Intelligence. Until 2024, he served as the Māori Anglican Archdeacon of Tāmaki Makaurau in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Dr. Drake also has degrees in science and commerce (Auckland) and two previous degrees in theology (Oxford), along with peer-reviewed publications in science and theology. Until 2010, Lyndon was a Vice President at Barclays Capital, trading interest-rate products. Since then, he has served in church ministry, as well as teaching theology and holding other leadership roles, including as chair of Te re Ruruhau o Meri Trust Board (a charity working to reduce family harm and sexual violence).

Dr. Oliver Dürr is the Director of the Center for Faith & Society at Fribourg University in Switzerland as well as a Postdoc Researcher at the University of Zurich Research Priority Program "Digital Religion(s)."  He is a theologian and historian (graduated both with highest honors), book author, film director and podcaster. His academic research focuses on the theology of technology, the future of anthropology and the ways of life that lead to a flourishing life – biologically, socially and spiritually. He heads the research network focused critically on “Contesting Computer Anthropologies” and constructively on developing the contours of an “Inclusive Humanism.” Among his publications is an interdisciplinary work program for the humanities engaging AI technologies. Next to his academic work, he engages in science communication efforts, most notably the documentary film and awareness campaign “The End of Humanity”.

Joshua Forstenzer is a Senior Lecturer (equivalent of U.S. Associate Professor) in Philosophy and Co-Director of the Centre for Engaged Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. He is an award-winning  teacher and researcher. He works mostly on John Dewey, the tradition of American pragmatism, philosophy of education, democratic education, and related topics. He is the author of Deweyan Experimentalism and the Problem of Method in Political Philosophy (Routledge 2019) and he is the co-editor of The Pedagogy of the Community of Philosophical Enquiry as Citizenship Education (Routledge 2024). He has published in numerous journals, including: The Journal of Philosophy of Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Theory and Research in Education, Educational Theory, and The Transactions of the Charles Sanders Peirce Society. His research and teaching are driven by the sense that philosophy, at its best, can operate across disciplinary boundaries and engage meaningfully with public concerns. He is currently a Partner Scholar at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture and has held visiting roles at the Harvard Kennedy School, Tufts' Tisch College of Civic Life, and at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He has also served as a Philosopher-in-Residence at the European Parliament and in various European non-profit organisations.

Polly Ha is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at Duke University in the Divinity School and History Department, Director of Transformative Ideas, and a McDonald Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Emory Center for Law and Religion. Her work on the intellectual history of religious dissent explores deliberative practices in church councils and individual conscience. Her forthcoming book The Future of Freedom: The Birth of Independence in the Puritan Revolution (Yale University Press) expands the range of moral, political, and temporal conditions that early modern divines introduced for safeguarding the long-term future of freedom.

Dr. Matthew Kuan Johnson serves as Chief of Responsible AI (RAI) for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). As the DoD’s lead for Responsible AI, his Division builds the technical tools, best practices, and policies to assess and assure the DoD’s AI-enabled capabilities. His Division also developed the DoD’s Responsible AI Toolkit (a focal point of the ‘Secure-by-Design’ portion of America’s AI Action plan), issued the DoD’s policy on Generative AI, and leads Frontier AI Red Teaming for the Department. Dr. Johnson also chairs the White House’s CAIO Council AI Assurance Working Group, which is tasked with developing resources to enable compliance with the Federal Government’s AI risk requirements. Dr. Johnson's background is in philosophy and cognitive science, having earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge, as well as degrees in Cognitive Science from the University of Cambridge (M.Phil.) and Yale University (B.A.). Previously, he consulted for Google AI and was a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. In 2020, he published the most foundational academic article on joy, to which the Journal of Positive Psychology dedicated a special issue. His areas of research include AI-enabled autonomy, human-agent interaction, philosophy of mind, ethics, and human flourishing.

James Kelly is the Founder and CEO of FaithTech, a global tech community for Christ with presence in over 25 cities worldwide. He is also the Founder of Digitalsabbath.io, a Partner at the AI Collective, and a Co-founder of Searching4Hope and TexttoTithe. Mr. Kelly has spoken live over 350 times in remote villages in South Sudan to Google HQ in Silicon Valley. He has been featured on 100 Huntley, 700 Club and Faith Today. He holds an M.Div. from McMaster University and a B.Comm. from Dalhousie University.

Theodore Kim is a Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies for Computer Science at Yale University, where he investigates biomechanical solids, fluid dynamics, and topics in geometry. Previously, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Pixar Animation Studios. He has received the NSF CAREER Award, multiple Best Paper awards, and two Scientific and Technical Academy Awards. His algorithms have appeared in over 20 films, and he has screen credits for Cars 3, Coco, Incredibles 2, and Toy Story 4. His writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, The Washington Post, TIME, and The San Francisco Chronicle.

Sara Lumbreras Sancho is a Professor at the ICAI School of Engineering of the Universidad Pontificia Comillas, where she graduated in 2006 as the Graduation Prize Winner. She is currently Deputy Director of Research Results at the Technological Research Institute and manages the Chair of Science, Technology and Religion together with Prof. Jaime Tatay. She is the author of more than seventy academic publications and has directed or participated in more than twenty projects with private companies and public institutions. Her research focuses on the development and application of decision support techniques to complex problems. She works with classical mathematical optimization techniques, heuristics and Artificial Intelligence. In addition, she researches philosophy of technology, specifically the implications of artificial intelligence in anthropology and the Ethics of AI. She has experience in decision problems in the energy sector, healthcare and finance. She also has five years of experience in the private sector (JP Morgan London).  She is a Global Shaper of the World Economic Forum and a Marshall Memorial Fellow.

Ruth Okediji is the Jeremiah Smith, Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS), Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Faculty Director of the HLS Program on Biblical Law and Christian Legal Studies, and Faculty Co-Director of the Christianity & the Common Good Initiative at Harvard University. Professor Okediji teaches Contracts, International Intellectual Property (IP), Patents, Copyright, courses on Biblical Law, and courses on Artificial Intelligence. Her research and scholarship examine innovation policy, the digital economy, and global knowledge governance. She has authored an extensive array of publications on the relationship between IP protection, innovation policy, and human flourishing and has served as a policy advisor to inter-governmental organizations and national governments on a variety of issues at the intersection of IP, international economic law, and human development, as well as on the formulation of IP, trade, and competition policies for the digital era. She is widely cited for her scholarship on the design and implementation of IP norms in developing and least-developed countries consistent with human welfare goals, as well as her leading work on legal regimes for the protection of genetic resources, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. She is a graduate of the University of Jos and Harvard Law School.

Ada Ordor is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Comparative Law in Africa (CCLA) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) Faculty of Law. She was the Henry J. Steiner Visiting Professor in Human Rights at the Harvard Law School in Spring 2024. She has held visiting fellowships at the African Gender Institute, UCT, and the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies, Center for Civil Society Studies. She is the convener of the Comparative Business Law in Africa LLM program and teaches the course Law Regional Integration and Development in Africa (LRIDA) to a diverse class of graduate students. Having worked in various sectors since 1990, including legal practice, civil society and academia, she has engaged with the intersections of the law with the development continuum, including regional integration processes in Africa, and now supervises graduate research around these intersections. She is the editor of the Journal of Comparative Law in Africa. Prof. Ordor holds an LL.B. (Hons) from the University of Jos, an LL.M. from the University of Nigeria, and a Ph.D. from UCT.

Autumn Ridenour is the Mockler Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at the Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. Her primary interests are in the areas of theological, philosophical and social ethics, with attention to Scripture, history, and systematic theology. Her book Sabbath Rest as Vocation: Aging toward Death with Bloomsbury/T&T Clark (2018) explores the meaning of death and aging in the theologies of St. Augustine and Karl Barth. In this work, she explores the impact of aging and death on virtue ethics, bioethics, and the significance of intergenerational relationships within the church. Her more recent research concerns technology and digital devices given their impact on moral development, spirituality, and relationships. Other publications include numerous journal articles and book chapters for edited volumes that address issues of aging and death, but also the goals of medicine, re-enchanting nature, Augustinian ethics, the virtue of presence, Christology, and union with Christ among other themes. Before arriving at Gordon-Conwell, Professor Ridenour taught undergraduate theology and ethics in light of Augustinian spirituality. She is passionate about the foundations of theological ethics and looks forward to exploring this theme further in the classroom. Professor Ridenour also participates in her local faith community of First Baptist Church in Sudbury, MA, where her husband serves as the senior pastor.

Tom Simpson is the Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College. His research focuses on a variety of foundational issues in moral and political philosophy—especially on the nature of freedom, and on trust, notably in his Trust: A Philosophical Study (Oxford University Press, 2023)—as well as applied questions, especially on issues around technology and security. He has given evidence to numerous Parliamentary committees, and his influential co-authored report Academic freedom in the UK: Protecting viewpoint diversity (Policy Exchange 2020) was described by the Times Higher Education as “the source for the key proposals” now enacted by the UK’s Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023. A former soldier with the UK’s Royal Marines Commandos, he served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Northern Ireland, and now directs the Military Leadership and Program at the Blavatnik School; and he is the Senior Academic Advisor at the Lanier Theological Library, Yarnton Manor.

Seow Hon Tan is an Associate Professor of Law at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, where she teaches Jurisprudence as a core module and as an elective. She was previously a Gammon Fellow as well as a Byse Fellow at Harvard Law School where she worked on, amongst others, ideas of love and friendship in the Western Christian tradition.  At Harvard, she wrote a doctoral dissertation on friendship, which has been published as Justice as Friendship: A Theory of Law (2015). Her research interests include the relation between success and human flourishing, the ethos of the legal profession, the impact of legal education on the professional identity of the lawyer, application of legal theory to current issues such as surrogacy, abortion and euthanasia, and the validity and effect of intolerably unjust laws. She is a winner of multiple teaching awards at the school and university levels. She has taught on topics that involve the intersection of law, philosophy, and faith. She has also been regularly invited to preach and speak at churches.

Dr. Jonathan Teubner is a Research Associate at the Harvard Human Flourishing Program, where he leads the AI and Flourishing Initiative. He has published broadly in the field of history of philosophy, theology, and cultural sociology, and is the author of Charity after Augustine: Solidarity, Conflict, and the Practices of Charity (Oxford University Press, 2024) and Prayer after Augustine: A Study in the Development of the Latin Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2018), the latter of which won the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise in 2019. Along with Sarah Coakley and Richard Cross, Teubner is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook to the Historical Reception of Theology(Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2025). Teubner has held faculty positions at the Australian Catholic University and at the University of Virginia, where he led a collaborative team of data scientists and scholars across the social sciences to create AI tools to predict political and social violence. Dr. Teubner's insights and analysis have appeared in The New York Times, The Economist, and The Hill, he is regularly interviewed by BBC, CNN, Scripps News and NBC Nightly News, and is a contributing editor at The Hedgehog Review. In 2022, he co-founded Filter Labs, a data analytics company that leverages artificial intelligence to source high-quality localized data in hard-to-reach regions of the world.

Li-ann Thio is Provost Chair Professor at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law and holds a B.A. (Hons) (Jurisprudence) from Oxford University, an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. from Cambridge University. She is a Barrister (Gray’s Inn, UK) and was a Nominated Member of the Singapore Parliament (2007-2009), a Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2011-2017) and a consultant Expert to the Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards (Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination) (2023-2025). She teaches and researches constitutional law, law and religion, Christianity and law, administrative law, human rights law (with a focus on Asia) and public international law. She Co-Series Editor of the Hart Constitutionalism in Asia series and was Chief Editor of the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, Singapore Journal of International & Comparative Law and General Editor of the Asian Yearbook of International Law. Her publications include The Rule of Law in Singapore: Legal Communitarianism, Paternal Democracy and the Developmentalist State (Hart, 2025), Religious Offences in Common Law Asia: Colonial Legacies, Constitutional Rights and Contemporary Practices, Thio & J Neo eds., (Hart, 2021); A Treatise on Singapore Constitutional Law (Academy Publishing, 2012) and Managing Babel: The International Legal Protection of Minorities in the Twentieth Century (Brill, 2005).

Tyler VanderWeele is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Director of the Human Flourishing Program and Co-Director of the Initiative on Health, Spirituality, and Religion at Harvard University. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University in mathematics, philosophy, theology, finance, and biostatistics. His methodological research is focused on theory and methods for distinguishing between association and causation in the biomedical and social sciences and, more recently, on psychosocial measurement theory. His empirical research spans psychiatric and social epidemiology; the science of happiness and flourishing; and the study of religion and health. He is the recipient of the 2017 Presidents’ Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS). Dr. VanderWeele has published over 500 papers in peer-reviewed journals; is author of the books Explanation in Causal Inference (2015), Modern Epidemiology (2021), Measuring Well-Being (2021), Handbook of Religion and Health (2023), and A Theology of Health (2024);and writes a monthly blog posting on topics related to human flourishing for Psychology Today.

Jordan Wales is Associate Professor of Theology and John and Helen Kuczmarski Chairman of the Department of Philosophy and Theology at Hillsdale College. His scholarship—appearing in such journals as AI & Society, Augustinian Studies, and the Journal of Moral Theology—focuses on early Christianity as well as contemporary theological questions relating to artificial intelligence. He is a member of the AI Research Group for the Holy See’s Centre for Digital Culture, with members of which he co-authored the book Encountering Artificial Intelligence: Ethical and Anthropological Investigations (Pickwick, 2024). He is also a fellow of the Centre for Humanity and the Common Good, and of the International Society for Science and Religion. Prof. Wales received his M.T.S. and Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame. A British Marshall Scholar, he holds a Diploma in Theology from Linacre College, Oxford; and a M.Sc. in Cognitive Science and Natural Language from the University of Edinburgh. He earned his B.S. in Engineering from Swarthmore College.

Martin West is the Academic Dean and Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also Editor-in-Chief of Education Next, a journal of research and opinion on education policy, and Deputy Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at the Harvard Kennedy School. West is currently a member of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and of the National Assessment Governing Board. His research focuses on the politics of K-12 education in the United States and how education policies affect student learning and non-cognitive development. In 2013-14, West worked as Senior Education Policy Advisor to the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. He previously taught at Brown University and was a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he is now a Nonresident Senior Fellow.

E. Glen Weyl is the Founder and Research Lead of Microsoft Research’s Plural Technology Collaboratory and Technology for Religious Empowerment initiative. He also co-founded the Plurality Institute, the RadicalxChange Foundation, and the Faith, Family and Technology Network. Weyl has collaborated closely with pioneering technologists, including Audrey Tang (Taiwan's 1st Digital Minister), Jaron Lanier (VR pioneer), and Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum founder). He co-authored Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society (Economist Book of the Year in 2018),  "Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul" (among the most downloaded papers ever on the Social Science Research Network), and the first fully open-source, democratically governed book, ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy. He also executive-produced the acclaimed short documentary “Good Enough Ancestor.” Widely published in prestigious academic journals across fields ranging from religious studies to biology and popular media across the social and political spectrum, Weyl has been recognized as one of blockchain’s most influential figures by CoinDesk, and as one of the leading visionaries of technology and business respectively by WIRED and Bloomberg BusinessWeek. A Princeton graduate, he completed his undergraduate studies as Valedictorian in 2007 and earned a Ph.D. in Economics in 2008.

After fifteen years as a property lawyer in London, Dr. Oliver Wright returned to Oxford to study philosophical theology and to pursue ordination in the Church of England. His doctoral thesis, “The Performativity of Christian Discourse: A Theological Theory of Language as Act,” was successfully completed in April 2025 after just seven terms of study. He now also has several peer-reviewed publications, including recent essays on Giorgio Agamben, Kierkegaard, Ricoeur and Rowan Williams, lex orandi lex credendi, and a reading of Romans 14-15 inspired by Richard Hays. He was ordained deacon in the Church of England in July this year and will take up a post as Junior Research Fellow in theology and AI at Pembroke College, Oxford in October.  

Dr. Richard Zhang is a Senior Research Scientist on the Vizier team at Google Deepmind. He is a co-creator of OSS Vizier, working on hyperparameter/prompt/data/agent optimization, Reinforcement Learning, and theoretical machine learning. He also explores AI alignment, counterfactuals/fairness, and the intersection of Faith and AI, believing that AI can be used to explore and strengthen one's faith. He stewards the Global Christians in AI (CHAI) community, where AI practitioners, academics, theologians, and entrepreneurs come together monthly to discuss relevant topics in the intersection of Christianity and AI. Dr. Zhang holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where he was advised by Prof. Satish Rao and Prof. Nikhil Srivastava. Previously, he graduated from Princeton University's Great Class of 2014.

Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School. He is also a Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, a Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Director of the Harvard Law School Library, and Co-founder and Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. His research interests include the ethics and governance of artificial intelligence; battles for control of digital property; the regulation of cryptography; new privacy frameworks for loyalty to users of online services; the roles of intermediaries within Internet architecture; and the useful and unobtrusive deployment of technology in education. Prof. Zittrain established the Assembly Program, a three-track fellowship program that convenes cohorts of experts, professionals, and students to develop solutions to complex technology policy issues, including those in cybersecurity, AI, and online disinformation.  He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He has served on the Board of Advisors for Scientific American, as a Trustee of the Internet Society, and as a Forum Fellow of the World Economic Forum, which named him a Young Global Leader.