Dasha Pruss is an assistant professor of philosophy and computer science at George Mason University. Previously, she was a 2023-2024 fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and a postdoctoral fellow in the Embedded Ethics program at Harvard University. She received her PhD in history & philosophy of science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2023 and holds a BS in computer science from the University of Utah. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy.
Dr. Pruss’ research critically interrogates the social impacts of algorithmic decision-making systems in the US criminal legal system. Her work draws on methods from feminist philosophy of science, critical data studies, and the qualitative social sciences. In 2024, she organized Prediction and Punishment: Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Carceral AI, which brought together scholars and activists from around the world to address technologies designed to police, incarcerate, surveil, and control human beings. More broadly, Dr. Pruss is interested in how technologies shape (and are shaped by) their social contexts. She is also an activist and has co-organized efforts to ban facial recognition and predictive policing in the city of Pittsburgh.
More information about her work can be found on her website, dashapruss.com.
September 11, 2024