Georgetown University experts are available to speak with media about various uses and implications of the rise of artificial intelligence technologies.
To request interviews with Georgetown faculty, please email media@georgetown.edu.
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Alberto Rossi, professor of finance and director of the AI, Analytics and Future of Work Initiative at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business
- Subject matter expertise: Empirical asset pricing, fintech, robo-advising, machine learning and finance, cryptocurrency
- Published reports on the use of of robo-advisor tools on wealth management portfolios and the impact of crowdsourcing information on spending bahavior
- Previously worked as an economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Amanda Levendowski, founding director of the Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic and associate professor of law
- Intellectual property and copyright law expert
- Work uses intellectual property laws to counter technological threats, including nonconsensual intimate imagery, artificial intelligence bias, secretive surveillance technologies, invasive face surveillance and opaque dystopian technologies
- Video: “Office Hours” discussing ChatGPT’s connection with copyright law and the question of AI-generated work ownership
Helen Toner, director of strategy and foundational research grants at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)
- Areas of expertise: Artificial intelligence, export controls, machine learning, military-civil fusion
- Expert on the national security implications of AI and machine learning for China and the United States
- Recent writing: “The Illusion of China’s AI Prowess,” Foreign Affairs, June 2, 2023
- Quoted in “Will China overtake the U.S. on AI? Probably not. Here’s why.,” Washington Post, July 6, 2023.
- Member of the board of directors for OpenAI
Jason Schloetzer, associate professor of accounting and area chair of Accounting and Business Law at the Georgetown McDonough School of Business
- Area of expertise: The use of AI in hiring processes, how AI tools are impacting business processes, automation, machine learning, the future of work, hybrid work arrangements
- Serves as an Editor of the Journal of Management Accounting Research since 2018 and is on the editorial boards of The Accounting Review, Accounting, Organizations & Society, and Production and Operations Management
- Frequent contributor to The Conference Board’s Environmental, Social, and Governance practice on corporate governance and risk management issues
Jennifer Logg, assistant professor of management, faculty fellow at Faculty Fellow of the AI, Analytics, and the Future of Work Initiative at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business
- Areas of expertise: How organizations can make more accurate predictions about the world, overconfidence, the human relationship with algorithmic advice, using algorithms to detect bias
- Published research on the physcology of data and the development of the “Theory of Machine”
- Quoted in “How AI might change our judgment and decision-making”, Axios, March 25, 2023
Michelle De Mooy, director of the Tech & Public Policy Program at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy
- Expert on advancing social justice through responsible and innovative technology and public policy that balances rights and revenue
- Published reports on how the U.S. should incorporate human rights into federal privacy legislation and the impact of bias in the algorithms that power health apps
- Previously a senior policy director at MPA/News Media Alliance, where she designed policy and governance products focused on ethics, technology and media
Michael (Mike) Rossetti, adjunct faculty of computer science
- Areas of expertise: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, information retrieval, cognitive neuroscience, data science, database management, management of information systems, natural language processing, bots, disinformation and the influence on politics, music recommendation algorithms
- Worked as a polling data analyst for winning U.S. presidential campaign, an analytics director for a Silicon Valley startup, and a tech consultant for the U.S. government
- Recent writing: “Bots, disinformation, and the first impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump”
Will Fleisher, assistant professor of philosophy
- Researches the ethical, political and epistemic implications of contemporary and near-term AI systems, particularly those developed using machine learning techniques.
- Affiliated with Georgetown’s Center for Digital Ethics and Initiative on Tech & Society.
- Has written about algorithmic fairness and explainable AI
In addition to the faculty members listed above, Georgetown houses a wide range of academic programs providing an extensive foundation at the intersection of technology, ethics, law and public policy.
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