Senior Research Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge

Dr Kerry McInerney is a Senior Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) at the University of Cambridge, where she co-leads the Global Politics of AI stream. She was also previously a Research Fellow at the AI Now Institute (a leading AI policy thinktank in New York). Kerry’s research explores the intersections between AI ethics, social justice, data ethics, and the ethics of frontier technologies, with three main focal areas: 1) ethical AI implementation and adoption; 2) how AI impacts and exacerbates inequality, especially gender and racial discrimination; and 3) how AI shapes international politics. In 2022, she was selected as one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics, and in 2023, she was recognised as an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker and as one of Computing Magazine’s 30 Under 30.

Kerry is the author/co-editor of five published and forthcoming books, along with numerous research articles, reports, and book chapters. She is an experienced public speaker, as the co-host of the award-winning The Good Robot Podcast on gender, feminism and technology, and a regular radio guest through the AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker scheme, where she gives informative talks about AI ethics to wide audiences. She regularly provides expert comment on AI to international news outlets, and her research has been profiled by news media organisations like The Guardian, The Telegraph, Forbes, and the BBC. Kerry teaches postgraduate students from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, including computer science, engineering, business, philosophy, law and the social sciences about key topics and issues in AI ethics through the LCFI’s two Masters programs in AI Ethics. You can learn more about her at https://www.kerrymcinerney.com/.