Daniel Schiff

Daniel S. Schiff
Assistant Professor of Technology Policy
Department of Political Science
Co-Director of GRAIL, the Governance and Responsible AI Lab
Purdue University
“What can we learn from research and discourse on deepfakes?”
As a policy scientist with a background in philosophy, Daniel Schiff studies the formal and informal governance of AI through policy and industry, as well as AI's social and ethical implications in domains like education, manufacturing, finance and criminal justice. Daniel was the founding responsible AI lead at JP Morgan Chase & Co., secretary of the IEEE 7010-2020 standard, the first AI ethics industry standard, and Director of Research, Evaluation and Planning at the Philadelphia Education Fund. He studied philosophy at Princeton University, focusing on robotics and intelligent systems, before completing a Master’s in Social Policy at the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Public Policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology. You can see his work in venues such as Policy Studies Journal, Science and Public Policy, Public Administration, Technology in Society, Review of Policy Research, AI & Society, the International Journal of AI in Education, IEEE Transactions on Technology & Society, the Journal of Engineering Education, the AMA Journal of Medical Ethics, and Nanotechnology.