Josh Simons

Josh Simons is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Technology and Democracy the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University. Josh’s first book, Citizen Rule: Democracy in the Age of Machine Learning, is due in Summer 2022, based on his PhD dissertation in political theory, which received the American Political Science Association (APSA) prize for the best dissertation in Information Technology and Politics. Josh has worked as a Visiting Research Scientist in AI at Facebook, helping to develop processes and frameworks for building machine learning systems responsibly; a Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge University, and the Institute for the Future of Work in the UK; a US-India Technology Policy Fellow at New America; and as a candidate for the Labour Party and policy advisor in the UK Parliament.

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