ForHumanity Fellow – Ethics & Law/Regulation

Mikhail Gordon is Managing Director of Institutional Ethics & Integrity, and Chief Privacy Officer at Affiliated Monitors, Inc. She serves as an independent integrity monitor on a wide-range of matters to public agencies and corporate entities under court-order and regulatory settlement agreements. She has served in both government and the private sector and advises a number of international IGO’s. She has spent her career examining and helping institutional clients around the globe address complex issues and matters at the intersection of law, technology, ethics, compliance and accountability. As Algorithmic, Autonomous and Artificial Intelligence systems (AAA) can affect fundamental rights, global security, and economic relations, all of which are traditionally within the purview of international legal instruments, she is passionate about efforts to harmonize international standards for such systems. Because the adoption of AAA systems raises critical questions about sovereignty, extraterritorial impact, and compliance with international legal norms, she believes international law and global civil society groups like For Humanity hold critical roles in how society addresses the downside risks of AAA’s. She has spoken at over a 100 law conferences and published widely. For fifteen years she has held leadership roles with the American Bar Association. She is on the faculty of the International Anti-Corruption Academy, an IGO; and on the faculty of the University of Surrey, School of Law, where she is researching artificial intelligence regulation. She also serves on the University of Surrey’s University Ethics Review Panel. In addition to her law degree, she holds an LLM in Information Technology Law from the University of Edinburgh Law School; and her MPhil from the University of Dublin, Trinity College. She is honoured to be a For Humanity Fellow and dedicated supporter of its mission.