Rob Reich is senior advisor for the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute. In this role, he will advise the AI Safety Institute and lead engagement with civil society organizations to help ensure that AISI efforts reflect the feedback and input of a diversity of stakeholders.
Reich will be on public service leave from Stanford University, where he is a professor of political science, associate director of the Institute for Human-Centered AI, co-director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, and past director of the Center for Ethics in Society. He has authored a number of books that address technology, ethics and policy.
He holds a Ph.D. in the philosophy of education from Stanford University and a B.A. in philosophy from Yale University.