Eleonore Pauwels, Director of the AI Lab at the Wilson Center.
Eleonore Pauwels is the Director of the AI Lab at the Wilson Center, in DC. She is a writer and international science policy expert, who specializes in the governance and democratization of converging technologies. Pauwels analyzes how transformative technologies, such as AI and genome-editing, raise new opportunities and challenges for health, security, economics and governance. She elucidates the promises and perils that come with the development of AI civil-military technologies, the Internet of Living Things and future networks of intelligent and connected bio-labs. Pauwels regularly testifies before U.S. and European authorities, including the U.S. Department of State, the National Intelligence Council, the European Commission and the UN. But she is also well-versed in communicating complex technologies for lay audiences (TEDxCERN) and her writing has been featured in media such as Nature, The New York Times, The Guardian, Scientific American, Le Monde, Slate and The World Economic Forum