11 Facts About Joanna Bryson

Joanna Joy Bryson was born on 1965 and is professor at Hertie School in Berlin.

Joanna Bryson studied Behavioural Science at the University of Chicago, graduating with an AB in 1986.

Joanna Bryson moved to MIT to complete her PhD, earning a doctorate under Lynn Andrea Stein in 2001 for her thesis "Intelligence by Design: Principles of Modularity and Coordination for Engineering Complex Adaptive Agents".

Joanna Bryson completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Marc Hauser's Primate Cognitive Neuroscience at the Harvard University in 2002.

Joanna Bryson joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bath in 2002.

Joanna Bryson joined Oxford University as a visiting research fellow in 2010, working with Harvey Whitehouse on the impact of religion on societies.

In 2010 Joanna Bryson published Robots Should Be Slaves, which selected as a chapter in Yorick Wilks' "Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key Social, Psychological, Ethical and Design Issues".

Joanna Bryson helped the EPSRC to define the Principles of Robotics in 2010.

Joanna Bryson is focussed on "Standardizing Ethical Design for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems".

Joanna Bryson has consulted The Red Cross on autonomous weapons and contributed to an All Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence.

In 2017, Bryson won an Outstanding Achievement award from Cognition X She regularly appears in national media, talking about human-robot relationships and the ethics of AI.