Dr. Daniel Araya (he/him)

Dr. Daniel Araya is a consultant and advisor with a special interest in artificial intelligence, technology policy, and governance. He is Senior Partner with the World Legal Summit and Senior Fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) where his work contributes to research on autonomous systems and global governance. Daniel is a regular contributor to Forbes, The Brookings Institution, Futurism, and Singularity Hub. He has been invited to speak at a number of universities and research centers including the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Harvard University, the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for Global Policy Solutions, Stanford University, the University of Toronto, UC Santa Cruz, and Microsoft Research. His newest books include: Augmented Intelligence (2018), and Smart Cities as Democratic Ecologies (2015). He has a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.