Mona Sloane is an Assistant Professor of Data Science and Media Studies. As a sociologist, she studies the intersection of technology and society, specifically in the context of AI design, use, and policy. She also convenes the Co-Opting AI series focused on all aspects of AI and serves as the Technology Editor for Public Books.Her work includes developing AI auditing and AI transparency methods, innovating AI procurement, AI in HR, AI participation and public education, new AI tools for investigative journalism, global AI policy and local governance innovation on AI, and other responsible AI topics. At UVA, Mona runs Sloane Lab which conducts empirical research on the implications of technology for the organization of social life. Its focus lies on AI as a social phenomenon that intersects with wider cultural, economic, material, and political conditions. The lab spearheads social science leadership in applied work on responsible AI, public scholarship, and technology policy.Previous projects Mona has led include A BETTER TECH, a public interest technology convention and career fair about public interest technology that reached over 12,000 people, the Terra Incognita NYC project on New York City’s digital public spaces in the pandemic, as well as the AI Procurement Roundtables project in collaboration with the IEEE Standards Association. From 2020-2021 Mona was a fellow of the Future Imagination Collaboratory (FIC) at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. In 2020, she was added to the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics Hall of Fame”. In 2021, she was named a NYU Faculty Honoree. Since 2021, she has served on the board of the Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative of the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs. Mona currently is a Fellow with the NYU Institute for Public Knowledge, The GovLab, and the Tübingen AI Center in Germany.Mona holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science and was a fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, at the University of Cape Town, and at the Weizenbaum Institute Berlin. Before joining UVA, Mona was a Research Assistant Professor at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, a Senior Research Scientist at the NYU Center for Responsible AI, and the Founding Director of the *This Is Not A Drill* program on art, equity, technology, and the climate emergency.Mona is a frequent public speaker and commentator, and has written for The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, The Hill, Nature, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, OneZero Medium, and other outlets. She tweets at @mona_sloane.