Joshua Joseph

Joshua Joseph is the Chief AI Scientist at the Berkman Klein Center. He received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technologyand, as a member of the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, his research focused on how artificial systems can learn to act in the presence of the complexities of the real-world. Following his Ph.D., he worked in industry building AI systems in finance and life sciences before returning to academia to serve as the Chief Intelligence Architect of MIT’s Quest. MIT’s Quest for Intelligence is a cross disciplinary research effort aimed at understanding how brains produce intelligence and how that intelligence can be replicated in artificial systems. Josh then co-founded and serves as the Chief Science Officer at Covariance.ai, an MIT startup that was selected as a STEX25 company of the MIT Startup Exchange and won the 2024 Cubies Innovation Prize from the D^3 Institute at Harvard University. Josh has appeared as a guest lecturer at Harvard Law School in Case Studies in Public and Private Policy Challenges of Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles and the Law, and Medical Artificial Intelligence: Ethics, Law, & Policy,. He currently holds appointments as a Visiting Scientist at MIT and as a Responsible AI Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.