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Nita A. Farahany is the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law & Philosophy and Founding Director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society. She is a widely published scholar on the ethics of emerging technologies, and author of the book “The Battle for Your Brain: Defending Your Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.”

Farahany is a frequent commentator for national media and radio and keynote speaker at events including TED, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the World Economic Forum, and judicial conferences worldwide. From 2010-2017, she served as a commissioner on the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. She is an appointed member of the National Advisory Council for the National Institute for Neurological Disease and Stroke, an elected member of the American Law Institute and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Farahany has led or served on nine state and national initiatives on neuroscience, ethics, national security and economics.

Farahany is a co-editor-in-chief and co-founder of the Journal of Law and the Biosciences and serves on the board of advisors for Scientific American. She also serves on scientific and ethics advisory boards for corporations. Farahany received her bachelor’s degree in genetics, cell, and developmental biology from Dartmouth College, a master’s of liberal arts in biology from Harvard University, law and master’s degrees Duke University, and a doctorate in philosophy.

Kashmir Hill is a tech reporter at The New York Times. She writes about the unexpected and sometimes ominous ways technology is changing our lives, particularly when it comes to our privacy. She joined The Times in 2019, after having worked at Gizmodo Media Group, Fusion, Forbes Magazine, and Above the Law. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The Washington Post. She has degrees from Duke University and New York University, where she studied journalism.

Jennifer King is the Privacy and Data Policy Fellow at the Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. An information scientist by training, she is a recognized expert and scholar in information privacy. Sitting at the intersection of human-computer interaction, law, and the social sciences, her research examines the public’s understanding and expectations of online privacy as well as the policy implications of emerging technologies. Most recently, her research explored alternatives to notice and consent (with the World Economic Forum), the impact of California’s new privacy laws, and dark patterns. Her past work includes projects focusing on social media, genetic privacy, mobile application platforms, the Internet of Things (IoT), and digital surveillance. Her scholarship has been recognized for its impact on policymaking by the Future of Privacy Forum, and she has been an invited speaker before the Federal Trade Commission at several Commission workshops. She has been featured in numerous publications and outlets, including The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Wired, Recode, National Public Radio, CNBC, Bloomberg, CNET, Vox, Consumer Reports, NBC News, MIT Technology Review, among others.

King completed her doctorate in information management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information. Prior to joining HAI, she was the director of consumer privacy at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School from 2018 to 2020. Before coming to Stanford, she was a co-director of the Center for Technology, Society, and Policy, a graduate student led research center at the University of California, Berkeley and was a privacy researcher at the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at Berkeley Law. She was a member of the California State Advisory Board on Mobile Privacy Policies and the California State RFID Advisory Board. She received a master’s degree in information management and systems also from the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information, and an undergraduate degree in political science and sociology from the University of California, Irvine. Prior to entering academia, she worked in security and in product management for several Internet companies, most notably Yahoo!.

Orly Lobel is a lawyer, academic and author who wrote the 2022 book “The Equality Machine: Harnessing Tomorrow’s Technologies for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future.” In it, she advocates for applying digital technology to important societal tasks such as detecting discrimination, correcting historical exclusions, and addressing challenges including climate change, poverty and literacy.

Lobel is the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, director of the Center for Employment and Labor Law, and founding member of the Center for Intellectual Property Law and Markets at the University of San Diego. In addition to “The Equality Machine,” she wrote the 2013 book “Talent Wants to Be Free,” an examination of nurturing innovation that the won the 2014 International Book Award for best business book. Lobel’s credits also include the TEDx talk “Secrets & Sparks” about the expansion of secrecy and intellectual property in contemporary markets. Her scholarship and research has received grants and awards from the American Bar Association, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Searle-Kauffman Foundation. She is also a Fulbright scholarship winner. Lobel’s work has appeared in media including The New York Times, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, La Presse, The Australian, ABA Modern Law, National Law Journal, NPR, the Toronto Globe and Mail, and CNBC.

Lobel earned law and master’s degrees from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Tel Aviv University. She is a member of the American Law Institute and served as a fellow at the Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.