The people of AI Commons
AI Commons is a distributed community. Some people build and steward the organization. Others helped start it. Many more are working across the ecosystem on the problems AI Commons exists to address.
Building the commons.
The core team responsible for AI Commons' direction, operations, and day-to-day work.
Madisen Taylor
Managing Director
AI Commons
Amir Banifatemi
Executive Director
AI Commons · Cognizant AI
SJ Klein
Co-Director
AI Commons · Berkman Klein Center
Peter Wang
Co-Director
AI Commons · Anaconda
Chandler Vaughn
Co-Director
AI Commons · Anaconda · OpenStack
Gilles Fayad
Director of Development
AI Commons
Tara Chklovski
Education & Training
AI Commons
Max Cappellari
Technology Lead
AI Commons
Those who started the conversation.
The individuals who helped found AI Commons and shaped its earliest direction, convening the first discussions about AI as shared infrastructure.
Yoshua Bengio
Professor
University of Montreal
Stuart Russell
Professor of Computer Science
University of California
Vilas Dhar
President
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Stefan Germann
CEO
Fondation Botnar
Konstantinos Karachalios
Managing Director
IEEE Standards Association
Francesca Rossi
AI Ethics Global Leader
IBM
Mathilde Forslund
Executive Director
Transform Health
Uyi Stewart
Chief Data & Technology Officer
DataDotOrg
Waving the flag.
People across institutions, disciplines, and geographies working on the problems AI Commons exists to address. The list is not exhaustive.
Governance & Policy
Audrey Plonk
Head, Digital Economy Policy
OECD
Karine Perset
Head, OECD.AI
OECD
Jamie Berryhill
AI Policy Analyst
OECD
Frederic Werner
Head of Strategic Engagement
ITU
Chaesub Lee
Director, Telecom Standard Bureau
ITU
Vincenzo Aquaro
Chief Digital Government
UN DESA
Sasha Rubel
Head of AI, Public Policy EMEA
Eileen Donahoe
Executive Director, Global Digital Policy
Stanford University
Maria Axente
Head of AI Public Policy & Ethics
PwC UK
Sebastian Hallensleben
Head of Digitalisation and AI
VDE
Marc-Antoine Dilhac
Consultant, Council of Europe AI Committee
Council of Europe
Cedric Villani
Councilor
City of Paris
Research & Academia
Timnit Gebru
Founder & Executive Director
DAIR Institute
Pascale Fung
Chair Professor, Director CAIRE
HKUST
Yann LeCun
VP & Chief AI Scientist
Meta
Georgina Curto
Responsible AI Research
University of Notre Dame
Risto Miikkulainen
Associate VP, Evolutionary AI
Cognizant
Zoubin Ghahramani
Professor of Information Engineering
University of Cambridge
Urs Gasser
Professor, Public Policy & Technology
Technical University of Munich
Jonnie Penn
Associate Professor, AI Ethics
University of Cambridge
Wendell Wallach
Emeritus Chair, Technology & Ethics
Yale
Ramesh Raskar
Associate Director
MIT Media Lab
Marcel Salathe
Co-Director, AI Center
EPFL
Julien Cornebise
Honorary Associate Professor
University College London
Primavera De Filippi
Research Fellow
Harvard Berkman Klein Center
Paolo Benanti
Professor, Ethics of Technology
Pontifical Gregorian University
Responsible AI & Industry
Thomas Wolf
Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer
Hugging Face
Joelle Pineau
VP, AI Research
Meta
Esteban Arcaute
Technical Lead, Responsible AI
Meta
Joaquin Quiñonero Candela
Technical Fellow for AI
Babak Hodjat
Chief Technology Officer AI
Cognizant
Manuela Veloso
Head, AI Research
JP Morgan Chase
Nicolas Miailhe
Founder & President
The Future Society
Philanthropy & Civil Society
Tanya Perelmuter
Director of Strategy, Co-Founder
Foundation Abeona
Natalie St-Pierre
President
SDG Capital Corporation
Jumanne Rajabu
Chief Executive Officer
Sahara Ventures
Kenny Chen
Executive Director
Chenco Holdings
Sarah Coleporter
Founder
InspiredMinds!
Benjamin Bollman
CEO, Consul of Switzerland
Swissnex
Ania Calderon
Managing Director
Data & Society Research Institute
Stephen Ibaraki
Founder & Chair Outreach
UN ITU