Dr. Jon Penney

Biography

Jon Penney is a legal scholar and social scientist based at the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, where he holds the York Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence, Data Governance, and Law. He is the author of "Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age," forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. He has been a long-time Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and a Research Fellow at the Citizen Lab, which is based at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Jon has also served as a Research Associate at the Citizens Technology (CAT) Lab, based at Cornell University. In recent years, he has spent time as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Institute for Rebooting, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, and as a Research Affiliate at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. Jon's expertise lies at the intersection of law, technology, and human rights, with a particular emphasis on emerging technologies like AI and machine learning, employing interdisciplinary empirical methods.

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