Anna Bacciarelli


Role

Researcher and advocate

Organization

REAL ML, Human Rights Watch

Location

London

About

Anna Bacciarelli is a technology and human rights researcher and advocate. She is currently Executive Director of REAL ML and Senior AI Researcher at Human Rights Watch. Previously, Anna led AI and human rights programs at Open Society Foundations and Amnesty International.

Anna’s work focuses on documenting the impact of technologies on societies and individuals, and advocating for robust policies, laws and standards, to ensure that AI doesn’t undermine human rights. She scoped and established Amnesty’s AI program in 2016, and since then has worked to advance a global algorithmic accountability movement, in a time of vast technological change.

Anna co-founded REAL ML in 2019, and co-chaired the flagship workshop in 2019 and 2022.

Links

Connected Projects

[ Online ]

Receptions of Generative AI

A REAL ML community event to discuss generative AI hype, and how to rebalance the industry-created narrative on the prominent new technology

Kites on a beach

[ London, UK ]

AI Safety and Society

Ahead of the UK AI Safety Summit 2023, REAL ML and The Ada Lovelace Institute held a closed-door convening for civil society participants to discuss the ‘AI safety’ narratives dominating regulation and industry spaces.

Kite flying in sky

[ Berlin, Germany ]

REAL ML 2019 workshop

A residential workshop for public interest researchers investigating the social impacts of algorithmic systems