Cansu Canca
Cansu Canca (pronunciation: ]) is a moral and political philosopher, with a Ph.D. specializing in applied ethics, and founder and director of AI Ethics Lab. Formerly, she was a bioethicist at the University of Hong Kong, and an ethics researcher at Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, National University of Singapore, Osaka University, and the World Health Organization. Canca started AI Ethics Lab in late 2016 (based in Cambridge, MA) focusing on integrating ethics into the innovation process. Developing and implementing the Puzzle-solving in Ethics Model (PiE Model), AI Ethics Lab became a  pioneer in the field for its novel approach to ethics practice. In 2018, Canca was listed among the “30 Influential Women Advancing AI in Boston” and in 2019, among the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics”. She is also the first technology and AI ethicist in Turkey. Canca serves as an ethics expert in various ethics, advisory, and editorial boards. She is a founding editor for "AI & Ethics Journal". She has given over 100 keynotes, seminars, talks, and interviews on AI ethics including TEDxCambridge, Harvard Business School, U.S. Department of Justice, Institute of Physics, and MIT Technology Review. Cansu Canca