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Cameron Buckner is a Professor of Philosophy and the Donald F. Cronin Chair in the Humanities at the University of Florida. His research primarily concerns philosophical issues which arise in the study of non-human minds, especially animal cognition and artificial intelligence. He began his academic career in logic-based artificial intelligence, has detoured through psychology and biology before ending in philosophy. This journey was driven by an interest into the relationship between classical models of reasoning and the (usually very different) ways that humans and animals actually solve problems, which led him to the discipline of philosophy. He received a PhD in Philosophy at Indiana University in 2011 and an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship at Ruhr-University Bochum from 2011 to 2013, and is a life member of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge.

Robert Frodeman (PhD philosophy, MS paleoclimatology) writes on environmental philosophy and public policy, the theory and practice of interdisciplinarity, and the future of the university. Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity at the University of North Texas, he has also held academic positions at the University of Colorado and the Colorado School of Mines. He is the author and/or editor of 16 books, including The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity (2010 and 2017) and Sustainable Knowledge (2013). Frodeman has lectured at and consulted for universities and science agencies worldwide and was a Fulbright Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Turku, Finland in 2023.

Christine Gerrard is Director of TORCH, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. TORCH is a world-leading interdisciplinary research centre. It connects Oxford researchers with partners across and outside the University to form local, national, and global collaborations. Christine Gerrard is a Professor of 18th Century Literature and Culture in Oxford's English Faculty. Her research interests include poetry practice and performance, public engagement with heritage sites, and eighteenth-century women’s writing and philosophy.

Margaret Hu is the Taylor Reveley Research Professor and Professor of Law, and Director of the Digital Democracy Lab, at William & Mary (W&M) Law School. She is a Faculty Affiliate with the Global Research Institute and Data Science at W&M, and a Research Affiliate with Pennsylvania State University’s Institute for Computational and Data Sciences. Her research focuses on the intersection of civil rights, national security, cybersurveillance, and AI. She is author of several notable works, including Biometric Cyberintelligence and the Posse Comitatus Act, Algorithmic Jim Crow, and Biometrics and an AI Bill of Rights. She is editor of Pandemic Surveillance: Privacy, Security, and Ethics (Elgar Publishing 2022) and author of AI Law & Policy (Aspen Publishing, forthcoming). She previously served as Special Policy Counsel in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. She holds degrees from University of Kansas and Duke Law School.

Sarah Humphreville is Executive Editor for Global Public Health and Oxford Intersections at Oxford University Press, where she has worked since 2010. In her time at Oxford, she has edited award-winning monographs and trade titles in art history, American literature, and science and technology studies before assuming management of the global public health and epidemiology lists in 2020. In 2023, she was named Executive Editor of Oxford Intersections, Oxford’s forthcoming short-form, global, interdisciplinary publishing program, where she has overseen the development and commissioning of new topics that encapsulate current societal and cultural challenges of note, from AI in Society to Borders.