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Please note: A catered lunch will be provided at this Friday Lunch event. Seats are limited and available on a first-come basis. To register, please send an email to rsvp@humanities.wisc.edu with your name, title, or affiliation.
Annette Zimmermann’s research interests cover a range of topics within the philosophy of AI and machine learning, political philosophy, moral philosophy, social and moral epistemology, philosophy of law and philosophy of science. At UW–Madison, Professor Zimmermann serves as a RISE-AI Thought Leader, is a member of the University’s interdisciplinary cluster in the ethics of computing, data, and information, and an Affiliate Professor at the Department of Statistics. Zimmermann also co-leads the Uncertainty & AI group at the Institute for Research in the Humanities.
Professor Zimmermann’s first book is titled Democratizing AI (forthcoming 2025). Zimmermann’s research has been published in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy and in Philosophy and Public Affairs, and their recent public writing has appeared in the New Statesman and in the Boston Review. Professor Zimmermann frequently advises policy-makers and technologists working on contemporary ethical and political issues surrounding AI and other forms of technology, including UNESCO, the OECD, the Australian Human Rights Commissioner, the German Aerospace Center, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, the UK Parliament, and the UK government’s Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation.