Eoghan Stafford is a technology policy strategist in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program. He focuses on how law enforcement and national security agencies use artificial intelligence technologies, and their effects on privacy, free speech, and other constitutional rights.
Stafford previously worked for Sen. Ron Wyden as a science and technology policy fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which selected him for its inaugural AI Rapid Response Cohort. Prior to that, Stafford explored the implications of AI for international security and human rights as a research scholar at the Centre for the Governance of AI. He also researched media repression in authoritarian regimes as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Stafford holds a BA in social studies from Harvard University, an MSc in political theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD in political science, with concentrations in comparative politics and quantitative methods, from the University of California, Los Angeles.