AI Working Group

Tim Crane leads the Working Group. He is a philosopher at CEU, and the author of the best-selling introduction to the philosophy of AI, The Mechanical Mind (first published in 1995, now in its third edition).
 

Alex Grzankowski Is a Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London working primarily in Mind, Language, Metaphysics, and Epistemology. Prior to London, he was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas Tech University and a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge while working on the New Directions in the Study of Mind project. 
 

Allison Stanger is a Senior Advisor to the Hannah Arendt Humanities Network. She is Russell Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College; Research Affiliate (Co-lead, Theory of AI Practice Initiative) at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University; and External Professor and Science Board member at the Santa Fe Institute. She is working on a new book tentatively titled Who Elected Big Tech? 

Renata Salecl is a professor of Psychology/Psychoanalyis and Law in the School of Law at Birkbeck, University of London, and a senior researcher in criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is a leading scholar on the subject of psychoanalysis and law, and she has a long association with the critical legal studies movement.

Christof Royer olds a PhD from the University of St Andrews (UK), and is an international political theorist whose research straddles the disciplines of International Relations, Political Theory and International Law. His research is, thus, interdisciplinary in nature, and he seeks to address complex questions surrounding mass atrocities, global justice, globalisation, human rights, political violence, contemporary practices of surveillance and democratic struggles and contestations.

With a background in both sociology and law, Professor Laura Ford’s research and teaching areas include law, religion and society, economic sociology, social theory, the history and development of intellectual property, and historical sociology. Ford’s recently published book—The Intellectual Property of Nations: Sociological and Historical Perspectives on a Modern Legal Institution, offers a macrohistorical account of the emergence of intellectual property as a new type of legal property. 

Mr. Md. Saimum Reza Talukder is currently serving as the Senior Lecturer, School of Law, BRAC University, Bangladesh. He is an enrolled lawyer at the Bangladesh Bar Council and a member of the Dhaka District Bar Association. Mr. Saimum has completed LL.M. and LL.B. from the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh and holds a specialized Master’s degree in Law and Digital Technologies from Leiden University, Netherlands. He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Social Innovation in a Digital Context (SIDC) from Lund University, Sweden and  a Diploma in “Economic, Social and Development Rights” from the Kathmandu School of Law.

Leanne Ussher studies and writes on monetary theory, local currencies, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain ecosystems.  She is a Research Fellow at Copenhagen Business School, Research Fellow at Wolfram Blockchain Labs, Center for Civic Engagement Fellow at Bard College, and Associate Editor at Frontiers in Blockchain for Good.  Leanne has taught economics, and finance at Bard College, University of Massachusetts Boston, and City University of New York. Prior to academia she was a Securities Analyst at the Reserve Bank of Australia. Leanne holds a PhD in Economics from the New School for Social Research. https://www.linkedin.com/in/leanne-ussher-9535856/

Aaron Lambert is Director of The Socrates Project at Central European University.