Anne Washington

Anne L. Washington, PhD is an expert in public interest technology and investigates the governance of emerging digital technologies. She is particularly interested in the balance of power between human lives and organizations that control digital record-keeping systems, and her research examines the ethics and institutional legitimacy of data science, automated decision systems, and blockchain. She has testified before Congress and chaired conferences on the ethics of artificial intelligence, and her work has been funded by organizations such as the National Science Foundation. She is also a professor at NYU, teaching courses on data policy and ethics in the Data Science for Social Impact program.