David Gray Widder, a Data & Society affiliate, studies how people creating “artificial intelligence” systems think about the downstream harms their systems make possible, and the wider cultural, political, and economic logics which shape these thoughts. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech, and earned his PhD from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. David’s recent research has been accepted to FAccT, Nature, CSCW, and Big Data & Society; his scholarly and activist work has appeared in Motherboard, MIT Technology Review, Wired, the Associated Press, and The New York Times. He previously conducted research at Intel Labs, Microsoft Research, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.