Sebastian Rodriguez
MSc Student
Sebastian Rodriguez
MSc Student
Sebastian is a MSc student in Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute. He works as a researcher for metaLAB (at) Harvard within the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, where he helps educators critically and creatively engage with AI as lead developer of the AI Pedagogy Project. He is interested in how AI is reshaping surveillance and policing, with a particular focus on challenging the normalization of such tactics and interrogating structures of power and control. He holds a Bachelor of Information from the University of Toronto.
Previously, Sebastian was a research assistant for various projects at the University of Toronto, including Failure: Learning in Progress (FLIP), The Ouroboros Project: How Private Militaries are Transforming America, and Dark Patterns: Where Marketing Meets UX Design. He is also an affiliate of the Manchester-Melbourne-Toronto Beyond Disinformation Project, where he investigates the tactics, technology, and public-private partnerships used to operate U.S. digital disinformation programs.
Surveillance and Privacy, AI Ethics, Transparency and Governance, Algorithmic Bias, Critical Security Studies, Human-Computer Interaction.