Joanna Bryson

Joanna Bryson is a reader (associate professor) at the University of Bath and an affiliate of Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy. A transdisciplinary researcher on the structure and dynamics of human- and animal-like intelligence, her research covers topics ranging from artificial intelligence, through autonomy and robot ethics, and on to human cooperation. At Bath, she organized the Intelligent Systems research group in the Department of Computer Science. Bryson has additional professional research experience from Oxford, Harvard, and LEGO and has technical experience in Chicago’s financial industry, in which she was an early programmer and software engineer. She has also worked in international organization management consultancy.