David G. Robinson
Also known as David Robinson
Technology policy researcher; co-founded Upturn and wrote Voices in the Code.
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- David G.
- Robinson is an American researcher on how algorithms are governed.
- He co-founded the Washington non-profit Upturn and was its managing director from 2011 to 2020, and wrote Voices in the Code (2022), about the redesign of the US kidney allocation algorithm.
- His CV, dated September 2026, lists him with the Safety Systems team at OpenAI.
- He is not the data scientist of the same name.
Key facts
- Education
- AB in philosophy, Princeton (2004); BA in philosophy and politics, Balliol College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar (2006); JD, Yale Law School (2012)1
- Upturn
- Co-founder and managing director, from 2011 to 20201
- Teaching
- Adjunct professor of law, Georgetown Law Center, from 2017; faculty director, Apple University, from April 2022 (per the CV)1
- Other roles
- Visiting scientist, Cornell University, from 2018 to 2021; consultant to the White House OSTP on the AI Bill of Rights (March 2022)1
- Book
- Voices in the Code: A Story About People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made (Russell Sage Foundation, 2022)1
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