Cansu Canca

Cansu Canca (pronunciation: [dʒanˈsu dʒanˈdʒa]) is a moral and political philosopher, with a Ph.D. specializing in applied ethics, and founder and director of AI Ethics Lab.^[1][2][3][4] Formerly, she was a bioethicist at the University of Hong Kong,^[5] and an ethics researcher at Harvard Law School,^[6] Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, National University of Singapore,^[7] Osaka University, and the World Health Organization.^[8]

Canca started AI Ethics Lab in late 2016 (based in Cambridge, MA) focusing on integrating ethics into the innovation process.^[9] Developing and implementing the Puzzle-solving in Ethics Model (PiE Model),^[10][11] AI Ethics Lab became a pioneer in the field for its novel approach to ethics practice.^[12] In 2018, Canca was listed among the “30 Influential Women Advancing AI in Boston”^[13] and in 2019, among the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics”.^[14] She is also the first technology and AI ethicist in Turkey.^[1]

Canca serves as an ethics expert in various ethics, advisory, and editorial boards.^[1][15] She is a founding editor for AI & Ethics Journal.^[16] She has given over 100 keynotes, seminars, talks, and interviews^[17][18][19] on AI ethics including TEDxCambridge,^[20] Harvard Business School,^[21] U.S. Department of Justice,^[22] Institute of Physics,^[23] and MIT Technology Review.^[24]