Dr. Annette Zimmermann

Annette Zimmermann is a political philosopher working on the ethics and politics of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data. 

Annette is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and an Affiliate Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before that, Annette was a Technology & Human Rights Fellow at Harvard University and a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of York as well as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University. Annette holds a DPhil (PhD from the University of Oxford.

Annette’s research explores questions like: what is algorithmic injustice, and how do its effects compound over time? What role do risk and uncertainty play in this context? What does it mean to trust AI? Whose voices should we prioritize in collective decisions about AI design and deployment—and whose voices are currently excluded? Whose rights are most at risk? How can we place AI under meaningful democratic control—and would that solve the problem of algorithmic injustice?