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Dasha Pruss is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her research focuses on the societal implications of carceral technologies, including recidivism risk assessment instruments, predictive policing tools, and electronic monitoring. She is particularly interested in the use of facial recognition technology by police and its impacts on society. In 2024, she organized the workshop 'Prediction Punishment: Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Carceral AI', which brought together scholars and activists to discuss technologies designed for policing, incarceration, and surveillance. Dasha and her colleague Nedah Nemati argue that technological 'alternatives' to incarceration can extend forms of psychological torture similar to those found in prisons. She has co-authored reports analyzing the critical uses of AI within the justice system, addressing issues like algorithmic bias in predictive policing tools.
Berkman Klein Center • Harvard University
Researching societal implications of technologies used in policing and incarceration.
University of Illinois Chicago • Chicago, IL
Teaching philosophy with a focus on the intersection of technology and social justice.
Administered by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).