Meredith Whittaker is a Distinguished Research Scientist at New York University, Co-Founder and Co-Director of the AI Now Institute and the Founder of Google’s Open Research group. She has over a decade of experience working in industry, leading product and engineering teams. She co-founded M-Lab, a globally distributed network measurement system that provides the world’s largest source of open data on internet performance. M-Lab provides one of the primary resources for policy makers and researchers investigating issues of net neutrality and network performance. She has worked extensively on issues of privacy and security, advising on both policy direction and technical implementation. She co-founded Simply Secure, helped build and currently advises the Open Technology Fund and led work to strengthen the security of critical internet infrastructure. She has advised the White House, the F.C.C., the City of New York, the European Parliament, and many other governments and civil society organizations on artificial intelligence, internet policy, measurement, privacy and security. She is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the AI Now Institute at N.Y.U., which is a leading university institute dedicated to researching the social implications of artificial intelligence and related technologies in an interdisciplinary context.