Aviv Ovadya

Aviv Ovadya is a Technology and Public Purpose fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center, founder of the Thoughtful Technology Project, and a non-resident fellow at GMF's Alliance for Securing Democracy. His work focuses on the societal impacts of emerging technologies, particularly online platforms and artificial intelligence. Aviv received BS and MEng degrees in computer science from MIT, worked in a wide variety of industry product roles, and served as Chief Technologist at the Center for Social Media Responsibility at the University of Michigan. He has written for the Washington Post, HBR, MIT Technology Review, and Bloomberg; his work has been covered regularly, including by the BBC, NPR, the Economist, WIRED, and the New York Times.