Tania is the Founder of We and AI –  a UK non-profit focusing on critical AI literacy, which runs the Better Images of AI library. She is on the Founding Editorial Board of the AI and Ethics Journal, the Editorial Board of the RSA (Royal Society of Arts) Journal, a Lead for the RSA Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN), and for TLA Tech for Disability. Tania coordinated the definitions group for the IEEE P7015 Standard for Data and AI Literacy, Skills, and Readiness, and was on the Public Engagement and Ecosystem Strategy Advisory Board of The Alan Turing Institute. She was named one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ 2021 and one of Computer Weekly’s 20 Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2025. Prior to this Tania was a CMO at TPX Impact, head of marketing and communications at FutureLearn, and has an MBA and a Diploma in Digital Business Leadership.

Steph has a diverse background ranging from astrophysics to genomics in academia, film & TV, dance and the third sector. A leader in, and advocate for, ethical, inclusive and responsible AI, she works to ensure that technology benefits the many and not the few. She is currently leading on the delivery of Scotland’s national AI Strategy. She was recognised as one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2023, one of the Top 10 Women in Tech in Scotland in 2023 and recently named in the 2025 Digital Leaders AI 100 UK list. She was also awarded the 2024 DataIQ Award for Data & AI For Good Champion.

Marc had many years in tech leadership in the creative industries and at Accenture.
He shifted to focusing fully on inclusive technology and supporting neurodivergent, disabled and social causes as a result of advocating for his daughter’s services and his own late assessment of autism and ADHD, in addition to ethical tech.
He founded Tech For Disability within the Tech London and Global Tech Advocates, to raise the profile of a disability and neurodivergent ecosystem and inclusive innovation. He met Tania Duarte through that group just as she was starting up We and AI, and they have collaborated closely across organisations ever since.
As an RSA Fellow, he is a committee member and co-lead of Responsible AI, Inclusive Work, Systems Thinking, and the Health & Care networks. At the British Computing Society he manages their Neurodiverse IT & AI groups, and advises UK government departments via the Disability Unit on Assistive tech, AI regarding the impact on marginalised groups.
He is now launching the Digital Diversity Living Lab, as a social tech research and development business to conduct user and systems research of those without voices and co-design inclusive innovation solutions in joint ventures. He draws on a network of specialist expertise, academic disciplines, and lived experience.

Zoya is currently pursuing a DPhil in law at the University of Oxford. Previously, she completed an MPhil in the Ethics of AI, Data, and Algorithms at the University of Cambridge and an LLB at LSE. Her thesis focuses on legal overlaps in UK intellectual property and data protection laws and their implications for mitigating biases in medical machine learning models. Her other research interests include privacy-enhancing technologies in health research, whistleblowing in the technology industry, and human-in-the-loop systems. Alongside academic research, Zoya has worked at numerous start-ups and organisations in the healthcare and AI industry, including GSK, the General Medical Council, and BenevolentAI.

Ismael has been working in the AI ethics space since 2020, when he worked on establishing the Alan Turing Institute’s research ethics committee. He believes that responsible AI cultures can be promoted through practical organisational mechanisms, as informed by his studies in business and philosophy. Since 2022, Ismael has been offering AI ethics and research governance consulting at Kairoi, helping organisations identify crucial tech decisions, anticipate their consequences and implement safeguards to guide decision-making processes. Since 2023, Ismael also leads the Fellow-led AI Interest Group at the RSA (Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce). Through practical advice and rigorous research, Ismael promotes the responsible AI revolution, enabling thoughtfulness and inclusivity in the design, development, deployment, usage and governance of AI research and systems.

Cinzia holds an MA in Linguistics specialising in Digital Humanities from Italy, a postgraduate qualification in Digital Education from the University of Edinburgh and is a Senior Fellow by Advance Higher Education (SFHEA). She has held academic roles at leading universities in Italy, the UK and the US, exploring the impact of technology on human practices across writing, education and creativity. She has led digital humanities and digital education projects and presented her research internationally, with publications in academic journals including Literary and Linguistic Computing (Oxford University Press). She has collaborated with UK educational organisations to evaluate AI teaching tools and has led projects on the creation of AI guidelines for student use. Currently, she investigates human-AI interaction for reflection in creative and learning processes. This research has recently been presented at conferences in UK and resulted in a forthcoming publication with Palgrave.

Bruna works across technology and communications, with a focus on AI governance. Through her consultancy Tecer Digital, she designs and delivers programmes equipping civil society organisations with the knowledge and tools to engage meaningfully in AI policy discussions. Her work began in civic journalism, followed by a decade in technology, with senior leadership roles at global startups. She holds an MBA, executive training in AI ethics and product strategy, and serves in strategic advisory and board roles across several NGOs.

Marion graduated from a Bachelor’s in Data Science from Maastricht University and a Master’s in Science, Technology and Policy from ETH Zürich. She conducted research at the intersection of degrowth and artificial intelligence – specifically analysing the appropriateness of machine learning to a degrowth context, notably using the concept of convivial technologies. Overall she is dedicated to use her technical background to promote social and environmental justice within the field of digital technologies.

Aphie is a social researcher specialising in sensitive and lived experience research across non-profits, policy, and social impact. He has a particular interest in the day-to-day implications of sociotechnical systems and how different communities respond to the design, deployment, and regulation of AI.

Beckett LeClair is the Head of Technology at 5Rights Foundation, the international NGO that seeks to ensure children’s rights are upheld in the digital world. He has prior experience as a Senior Engineer across cybersecurity, safety, and AI R&D. Beckett now takes part in technology standards and policy development around the world.

PhD in Information and Communication Sciences. She is currently a teaching and research assistant at the Department of Communication and Society of the University of Franche-Comté (ELLIADD). Her research focuses on visual and multimodal methods for analysing devices, mediations, representations, imaginaries and discourses in/about the (digital) urban espace.

Lizzie is a Health Data Science PhD student at Queen Mary University of London exploring how we can build more equitable AI systems in collaboration with patients and clinicians. Lizzie has a background in Global Health and Psychology, and her research focues on health inequalities.

Ella is a final-year PhD student in the Centre for Doctoral Training in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the University of Edinburgh, where her research focuses on building computational models of how people learn the meaning of words. She also holds a BA in Psychology and Linguistics from the University of Oxford.

Max graduated from the University of Cambridge, studying Human, Social and Political Sciences. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Journal of Political Affairs’ tenth edition, and his final year research critically analysed the application of AI systems to political governance, specifically in liberal democracies. He has volunteered as an editor at Agora, an open forum for foreign policy think tank, and works as a Tutor and an AI content editor specialist. At We and AI, he is currently working on a project looking into the impacts of using metaphors when discussing AI.

Laura is an advocate of privacy and other fundamental rights amidst the increased implementation of AI and other disruptive technologies. With her interdisciplinary background in physics, philosophy, and logic, she has explored both the technical characteristics and the social implications of AI. She has worked in industry, academia, and supranational institutions, such as IBM and the European Data Protection Supervisor, and will begin a Marie Skłodowska‑Curie funded PhD this fall building a decolonised ethical framework for AI in healthcare focused on social justice.

Harriet Humfress is a London-based undergraduate finalist studying Fine Art at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Her research explores popular beliefs and myths around AI, and how these ideas of anthropomorphism heighten anxieties around embodiment and labour. Her work covers sound and video installations along with small tactile sculptures that aim to both satirise and inform viewers about how these digital systems cannot be unlinked from human emotion and power structures. Her projects often begin with data collection through surveys and workshops to build an understanding of how people engage with AI in their everyday lives, and these data sets then become the material for her works. She is developing this practice as a pathway into further study in AI ethics, with the ambition of developing the public understanding of AI. By using artistic methods to expose hidden assumptions about AI, she aims to contribute to broader conversations to empower people to engage critically with these tools.

Marissa is a strategy, product and change consultant and the founder of Diversily. Her 20 years in tech has covered areas such as digital innovation, data analytics & business intelligence. Diversily is on a mission to help others to drive positive change through their self service frameworks and workshops that cover change, inclusion and leadership. Their flagship tool The Change Canvas is supporting positive change all around the world.

Ingrid is an experienced, versatile Digital Consultant and Strategist with a 20-year career of working on diverse public, private and third sector digital projects. She is passionate about creating digital products and services that empower, enrich and transform. She has worked on AI projects in this context and is equally excited by, and wary of, the possibilities that AI and emerging technologies present.

Dr Vassilis Galanos, SFHEA is Lecturer in Digital Work at the University of Stirling’s Business School and Associate Editor of Technology Analysis and Strategic Management (Taylor & Francis). Vassilis is working on historical sociologies of artificial intelligence and internet technologies, with a particular interest in the role of hype and metaphors in technological configurations. Vassilis is the co-founder of the AI Ethics & Society and Hype Studies research groups, and is the author, with Dr James K. Stewart, of the forthcoming book Internet, AI and Society: A Guide for the Perplexed (Wiley Blackwell, Inc) while serving as Director of the BA (Hons) Business Studies programme at Stirling. Vassilis has once jammed with the Sun Ra Arkestra.

Berk Alkoç (he/him) is a designer–researcher based in Germany exploring the intersections of technology, cities, and everyday life through a critical (and unapologetically queer) lens. At ZeMKI, University of Bremen, he designs for Molo, a civic media platform. At the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), he researches nature conservation through a relational values lens and how digital tools shape environmental governance. Outside of work, he’s likely outdoors or immersed in something visual, whether behind a camera, sketching, or experimenting with graphic design.

Theo Moreman is an early career researcher, currently working towards an MSc in Data and Artificial Intelligence Ethics at the University of Edinburgh. They are particularly interested in how participatory approaches can be used to build artificial intelligence systems that work for everyone, rather than for a select few. They are also an incoming PhD candidate in AI Safety at the University of York.

Sarah is currently pursuing her MSc in Data and AI Ethics at the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute, and is collaborating with We and AI as part of her dissertation. Her research dispels narratives of AI inevitability by challenging the political, economic, and asymmetrical power structures that enable tech hype. She also holds a BA in History from McGill University. Sarah is a marketing and communications professional, who has worked in the philanthropic sector to promote better health outcomes and accessibility across Canada. Looking ahead, Sarah aims to merge her interests in data-invasive technologies, community-building, and storytelling, to reimagine and demand more equitable and ethical digital futures.

Emerging researcher exploring the human and political impact of modern technology. With a background in Information Architecture from the University of Warsaw, she studies how AI systems keep global inequalities alive. She is interested in how the tech industry offloads its risks and psychological costs onto workers in the Global South whose labor remains hidden.

Eric M. Dillon is an MA student in English at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. He previously obtained an MPhil in Digital Humanities from the University of Cambridge in 2024, as well as dual bachelor’s degrees in English and Computer Science from Marshall University in 2023.

As a Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dillon has taught courses in first-year composition and digital humanities. His research focuses on how digital media—particularly video game narratives and internet aesthetics—intersect with memory, Appalachian identity, and preservation.

Elja was the AI policy lead for the Netherlands for 3 years. Before that, she was a leading speaker and trainer on social media and online content. While working for the government, she was in charge of, among others, the public administration’s algorithm register (first in the world).

I run Sticks & Stones, an ethical tech consultancy specialising in digital strategy, user research and ethnography. In 2025, I graduated with distinction from a digital anthropology MSc at UCL (the result of a mid-life covid lockdown crisis)! My dissertation was on digital activism and I’m deeply interested in how new technologies like AI can be harnessed to help human progress in terms of the climate crisis and other environmental and political challenges we face.

Carolina is a researcher, facilitator, and futurist working at the intersection of AI, data, and collective action. They explore how to design more plural, community-led, and sovereign technological futures for the global majority. Their work centers participatory, non-extractive approaches that enable communities to shape how data and AI systems are defined and governed in culturally and contextually grounded ways.