Framework Authors

Wolfgang Blau is the managing partner of Brunswick’s global climate hub and an expert in climate communications. He has previously served as president international and global chief operating officer of Condé Nast, chief digital officer and, later, president of Condé Nast International, editor-in chief of ZEIT ONLINE, and executive director of digital strategy for The Guardian. He currently serves as an advisor to the United Nations Climate Division, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and a trustee of Internews.org.

Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and chief internet evangelist for Google. Widely known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” Cerf is the codesigner of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the internet. He is a member of the British Royal Society, the Swedish Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, and the National Academy of Engineering.

Juan Enriquez is the managing director of Excel Venture Management. He serves on the boards of multiple nonprofits including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Boston Science Museum, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center. He also was the founding director of the Harvard Business School’s Life Sciences Project.

Joseph S. Francisco is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Science, and the former president of both the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers and the American Chemical Society.

Urs Gasser is a professor of public policy, governance, and innovative technology and the dean of the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology at the Technical University of Munich. He serves on the board of directors of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University as an advisor to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and UNICEF.

Mary L. Gray is senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research and faculty associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She maintains a faculty position in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with affiliations in Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University. She also chairs the Microsoft Research Ethics Review Program and sits on the California Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors and Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research.

Mark Greaves is the executive director of AI2050. Prior to joining Schmidt Futures, Greaves was a senior leader in AI and data analytics within the National Security Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, director of knowledge systems at Vulcan Inc., director of DARPA’s Joint Logistics Technology Office, and program manager in DARPA’s Information Exploitation Office. Greaves was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service for his contributions to US national security while serving at DARPA.

Barbara J. Grosz is Higgins Research Professor of Natural Sciences in the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Philosophical Society, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, the Association for Computational Linguistics, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania, the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, and program director of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands. Jamieson is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, a distinguished scholar of the National Communication Association, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the International Communication Association, and a past president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Gerald H. Haug is the president of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and professor for climate geology at the ETH Zürich. He is a member of the Mainz Academy of Science and Literature and the Academia Europaea. He has been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize and the Albert Maucher Prize by the German Research Foundation and the Rössler-Prize by ETH Zürich.

John L. Hennessy is the former president of Stanford University and the director of its Knight-Hennessy Scholars program. He was the inaugural Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the American Philosophical Society.

Eric Horvitz is Microsoft’s chief scientific officer. He serves on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and has been an advisor to national agencies including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Office of Naval Research, and DARPA. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Science, an elected fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, Association for the Advancement of AI, and the American College of Medical Informatics. He also has served as president of the Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI) and as a commissioner on the National Security Commission on AI (NSCAI).

David I. Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His historical scholarship has been honored with the Pfizer Prize and the Davis Prize from the History of Science Society, while his physics research has received the LeRoy Apker Award from the American Physical Society, as well as election as Fellow of the APS.

Alex John London is the K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies, co-lead of the K&L Gates Initiative in Ethics and Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, director of the center for ethics and policy at Carnegie Mellon University, and chief ethicist at the Block Center for Technology and Society at Carnegie Mellon University. London currently serves on the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Group on Ethics and Governance of AI, holds an appointment to the US Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Blood and Tissue Safety and Availability, and is a member of the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB).

Robin Lovell-Badge is a principal group leader and head of the Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics at the Francis Crick Institute. Lovell-Badge is an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Arts, and the Royal Society of Biology. He has been awarded the Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine, the Armory Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Feldberg Foundation Prize, and the Waddington Medal of the British Society for Developmental Biology.

Marcia K. McNutt is a geophysicist and the 22nd president of the National Academy of Sciences. She has previously served as president and CEO of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, director of the US Geological Survey and editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Science. She is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the International Association of Geodesy, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Internationally, she is a foreign member of the Royal Society, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Indian National Science Academy.

Martha Minow is the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University and former dean of Harvard Law School, where she has taught since 1981. She is among two dozen individuals who bear university professorship, Harvard’s highest academic post, authorizing her to pursue research and teaching at any of Harvard’s schools. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Bar Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society.

Tom M. Mitchell is the Founders University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he founded the world’s first Machine Learning Department. He co-chairs a US National Academies study on AI and the future of work, as well as a task force studying Generative AI for the Special Competitive Studies Project. Mitchell also is an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow and past-president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

Susan Ness is a former member of the US Federal Communications Commission, where she played a leading role on spectrum policy, international ICT advocacy, competition policy, and emerging technologies. She founded Susan Ness Strategies, a digital tech and media policy consulting firm, and is a frequent convener and speaker on tech governance issues. She is also a distinguished fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition for Digital Safety.

Shobita Parthasarathy is professor of public policy and women’s and gender studies, and cofounder and director of the science, technology, and public policy program at University of Michigan. Her book Building Genetic Medicine: Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care (MIT Press, 2007) influenced the 2013 US Supreme Court case that determined human genes were not patentable. She has held fellowships from the American Council for Learned Societies, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, American Bar Foundation, and Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Germany).

Saul Perlmutter is a professor of physics at UC Berkeley, where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is the leader of the international Supernova Cosmology Project, director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and executive director of the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He currently serves on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. In 2011, he was awarded the Nobel prize in physics, sharing the prize for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe.

William H. Press is the Leslie Surginer Professor of Computer Science and Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin. At UT, his affiliations include membership in the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences and in the Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology. Press is also a senior fellow (emeritus) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a former member of President Barack Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), and the past (2012–2013) president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is currently the elected treasurer of the National Academy of Sciences and is a member of the Governing Board of the National Research Council.

Jeannette M. Wing is the executive vice president for research and professor of computer science at Columbia University. She is a member of the American Academy for Arts and Sciences Board of Directors and Council; the New York State Commission on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Automation; and the Advisory Board for the Association for Women in Mathematics. She is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and National Academy of Innovators. She holds an honorary Doctor of Technology from Linkoping University, Sweden.

Michael Witherell is director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). He previously served as vice chancellor for research for the University of California, Santa Barbara (2005–2014) and director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (1999–2005). He is the recipient of the American Physical Society’s W. K. H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics. He is a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has served on numerous boards, including as a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Public Policy (2016–2019).

Paper Authors

For those who were also framework authors, see biographies above.

Marc Aidinoff is a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study. He recently served as chief of staff and senior advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he helped lead a team of 150 policymakers on key initiatives including the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights and guidance to ensure federally funded research is publicly accessible.

David Baltimore is President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Biology at Caltech. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a foreign member of the Royal Society of London and the French Academy of Sciences. He has also been president and chair of the American Association of the Advancement of Science. In 1975, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research in virology.

Jared Katzman is a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan’s School of Information with a specialization in Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP). Recently, Katzman has worked with the Center for Democracy and Technology as a research policy fellow, where they investigated gaps in the current ecosystem of AI regulation.

Editors

Kathleen Hall Jamieson (See biography above)

Anne-Marie Mazza is senior director of the National Academies’ Committee on Science, Technology, and Law. From 2021 to 2022, she was detailed to the White House as executive director, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Mazza joined the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in 1995 and has been the study director on numerous National Academies’ activities involving emerging technologies (e.g., human genome editing, synthetic biology, neural organoids and chimeras); science in the courtroom (e.g., eyewitness identification and forensic science); and governance of academic research (e.g., dual-use research of concern, intellectual property, and human subjects). She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

William Kearney is executive director of the Office of News and Public Information at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, where he also is editor of Issues in Science and Technology, which is copublished with Arizona State University. Kearney has led media outreach for hundreds of science, technology, and health policy reports, and managed communications for large scientific conferences including the famous international summits on human genome editing in Washington in 2015 and in Hong Kong in 2018, as well as Nobel Prize Summits in 2021 and 2023. He directed other international science communication efforts, including for the African Science Academy Development Initiative, and he has presented at the World Conference of Science Journalists. In 2010, he was assigned to the InterAcademy Council to manage communications for a review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.