Ujan Banerjee

We are building AI systems that scale faster than our ability to understand their social impact. With a background in Mathematics and Social Anthropology, I exist at that friction point where I help translate the complexities of tech into human-centric policy and strategy, especially at a time when the self-evidence of what counted as human is at stake. 

 

I came to the University of Chicago to deepen and operationalize these perspectives. I am learning to not just critique technical systems, but to audit them, measure their externalities, and design the policy frameworks that might help govern them.

 

At the same time, given that every discipline is a combination of blindness and insight, my ventures into the department of Anthropology hopes to secure the externalities of economic thought as the beginning of an interdisciplinary conversation in the wake of a world that has stopped lending itself to pre-made ideas and concepts.