Draft:Amba Kak

Amba Kak is an Indian-American technology executive and AI expert. She is notable for her technical and policy work, including being one of the three civil society representatives at the 2023 Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit with Sam Altman and Kamala Harris.

She is currently the Executive Director of AI Now, and previously helped shape the Federal Trade Commission's positions on AI as Senior Advisor on AI under Chair Lina Khan.

The focus of her scholarship and policy work is how data-driven technologies and economies impact society.

Early life and education
Ms. Kak grew up in India, and lived in Kolkata. She has earned a BA LLB with honors from the National University of Juridical Sciences in India and a Masters in Law and an MSc in the Social Science of the Internet at the University of Oxford. She attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

She has also lived in Bangalore, India, Mansfield, England, and currently resides in New York City.

Tech policy
Ms. Kak is part of a school of thought in technology policy that focuses on power structures and rejects "solutionism."

Her work in government includes roles focusing on the regulation of AI at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission as well as legal advisor on Net Neutrality at the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

Before leading AI now, she served as Global Policy Advisor at Mozilla. She currently serves on the board of Directors at the Signal Foundation, the AI Committee for the Board of the Mozilla Foundation, and a Visiting Senior Research Scientist at the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University.

Her work has included and focuses on Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Net Neutrality in India

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