Mary L Grey Interview

Mary L. Gray is a Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. She maintains a faculty position in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with affiliations in Anthropology, Gender Studies and the Media School, at Indiana University. Dr. Gray’s research looks at how automation, technology access, material conditions, and everyday uses of media and technologies transform people’s lives. She chairs the Microsoft Research Ethics Review Program - the only federally-registered review board of its kind in Tech - and is recognized as a leading expert in the emerging field of AI and ethics. Her research has been covered by popular press venues, including The Guardian, El Pais, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Nature, The Economist, Harvard Business Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Forbes Magazine. Dr. Gray’s recent book, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass, written with computer scientist Siddharth Suri, is an expose of the invisible human workforce that powers the web.