Julia Irwin
HAI Postdoctoral Fellow
Julia Irwin researches the history and philosophy of artificial intelligence as a lens for understanding contemporary issues of AI safety, values alignment, and human-computer interaction. Her scholarship uncovers the ways twentieth-century theories of human perception and reason have shaped the development of AI, and how machine capabilities have likewise informed our theories of human intelligence and social organization. She holds a PhD in Film & Media from UC Berkeley and a masters from NYU Tisch’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.