William Isaac

Computational Social Scientist

About Me

I am a Staff Research Scientist on DeepMind’s Ethics and Society Team and Research Affiliate at Oxford University Centre's for the Governance of AI. My research focuses on fairness and governance of AI systems.

Prior to DeepMind, I served as an Open Society Foundations Fellow and Research Advisor for the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. My research has been featured in publications such as Science, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

Research

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Recent Publications

A Causal Bayesian Networks Viewpoint on Fairness
Participatory Problem Formulation for Fairer Machine Learning Through Community Based System Dynamics
Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence

Media Appearances

The true dangers of AI are closer than we think | MIT Tech Review
A.I. Experts Question Amazon’s Facial-Recognition Technology | New York Times
Can ‘predictive policing’ prevent crime before it happens? | Science

Lectures & Panels

(CogX) Black data matters: how missing data undermines equitable societies
(Just AI) Prototyping AI ethics futures: Ethics in practice
(DeepMind Podcast) Episode 6: AI for everyone