Ruth Chang
Ruth Chang is Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford and a Professional Fellow at University College, Oxford. Before that, she was a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. She has held visiting appointments in philosophy the University of California Los Angeles and in law at the University of Chicago Law School. She has a Ph.D. from Balliol College, Oxford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Chang’s research focuses on how we can appropriately integrate multiple criteria of relevance in normative, epistemic, and scientific inquiry and the ways in which the reasons for and against options that are based on such criteria might relate. Her current work proposes an alternative paradigm of rationality and a values-based model for the design of artificial intelligence that may help align machine outputs with human values. Her research has upshots for both individual and collective or institutional decision-making and has been the subject of articles and interviews by various media outlets around the world including the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, Italy, Germany, Israel, Brazil, Switzerland, Taiwan, New Zealand, and Austria. She has been a consultant or lecturer for institutions and industries ranging from video gaming to pharmaceuticals to the Navy, CIA and World Bank and has written popular articles for The New York Times and The New Statesman. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.