Michal Kosinski Keynote Speaker

Michal Kosinski, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where he engages in groundbreaking research on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Models, and Psychology.

Professor Kosinski is an acclaimed academic, public speaker, author, and a leading public intellectual. He has shared the stage with Elon Musk, Ray Kurzweil, Ed Snowden, and Max Tegmark. He published popular op-eds in The New York Times, Financial Times, and The Guardian, and regularly appears in documentaries and on major media outlets, such as CNN, CBS, NewsNation, and Fox News.

Kosinski is among the Top 1% of the highly cited scholars with over 100 scholarly contributions. He co-authored Handbook of Social Psychology and Modern Psychometrics, two popular textbooks, and has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in prominent journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Computational Science, and Machine Learning which have been cited over 22,000 times.

His research has inspired a cover of The Economist, a 2014 theatre production titled “Privacy,” several TED talks, and a video game. It has been featured in thousands of press articles, books, podcasts, and documentaries.

Kosinski was behind the first press article warning against Cambridge Analytica. His research exposed the privacy risks they exploited and assessed the effectiveness of their methods. His role has been detailed in Steven Levy’s insightful book Facebook: The Inside Story and Sander van der Linden’s article, Weapons of Mass Persuasion.

He earned his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Cambridge and holds master’s degrees in both psychometrics and social psychology. Before joining Stanford, Kosinski was a post-doctoral scholar in Stanford’s Computer Science Department, the Deputy Director of the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre, and a researcher in Microsoft Research’s Machine Learning Group.