“In order to think through how we should live in this new world, we need to change the political vulnerabilities in the up code rather than the technical vulnerabilities in the down code – that is going to take generations”.  Scott Shapiro

Scott Shapiro is the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School. His areas of interest include the philosophy of law, international law, criminal law, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence.

He is the founding director of the Yale CyberSecurity Lab, which provides cutting-edge cybersecurity and information technology teaching facilities.

He has just been appointed as Special Government Expert to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, working on AI security. He is also the CEO of Leibniz AI, a tech startup that builds reliable and transparent legal chatbots in an effort to democratize legal reasoning.

Scott is the author of Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks 2023