Camille François
Camille François | |
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| Alma mater | Sciences Po (MA) Columbia University (MA) |
| Years active | 2013-present |
| Known for | cyberwarfare, digital disinformation, public AI |
| Website | Camille François on Twitter |
Camille François is a French researcher working on cyber security and digital safety. She is a professor of practice at Columbia University, leading a program on public interest AI, and President at ROOST.tools, a nonprofit dedicated to open source software for online safety. Camille was previously director of trust & safety at Niantic, an augmented reality company.[1]
Education and career
[edit]François holds a master's degree from the Paris Institute of Political Studies and a master's degree in international security from Columbia University in 2013. She was a Fulbright fellow, a fellow of the Berkman-Klein Center at Harvard University,[2] and served as special advisor to the CTO of France.[3]
She joined Google to work at Jigsaw, a unit within Google dedicated to exploring threats to open societies. She later joined Graphika as their chief innovation officer.[4] She was featured as a Time 100 Next fellow in 2019[5] and as an innovator under 35 by theMIT Technology Review.[6] Some of her research focused on cyberpeace, how states are using social media for disinformation and misinformation,[7] and on people working for troll farms such as the Internet Research Agency.[8] She provided testimonies on Russian electoral influence operations for the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.[9]
In 2021 she joined Niantic as their global director of trust & safety.[10] In 2023, she was appointed by Emmanuel Macron to a French committee on the right to information,[11] and with Maria Ressa founded an innovation lab on AI and democracy at Columbia.[12] In 2024, she joined the faculty at Columbia full-time,[13] and co-organized with Mozilla a series of public convenings on openness and AI.[14][15]
References
[edit]- ^ "Camille François | Columbia SIPA". www.sipa.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
- ^ Camille François – Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
- ^ Camille François on Cybersecurity and Democracy – Berkeley School of Information
- ^ Camille François, Chair of Advisory Board – Graphika
- ^ Camille François Times 100 Next: Camille François – Time
- ^ Innovators Under 35: Camille François – MIT Technology Review
- ^ Camille François MIA '13: An Optimist Mind – Columbia University
- ^ troll The IRA, Social Media and Political Polarization in the United States, 2012-2018 Computational Propaganda Research Project – University of Oxford
- ^ This former Google exec talked to the social media trolls the Russians paid to influence elections — here's what she learned – CNBC
- ^ Welcoming Camille Francois to Niantic – Niantic
- ^ "Emmanuel Macron annonce le lancement en septembre des Etats généraux de l'information" (in French). 2023-07-13. Retrieved 2025-02-09.
- ^ Quintanar, Saul. "SIPA launches new lab to tackle overlap of AI and democracy". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 2025-02-09.
- ^ "New Faculty and Research Scholars 2024–25 | Columbia SIPA". www.sipa.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
- ^ "Introducing the Columbia Convening on Openness and AI | The Mozilla Blog". blog.mozilla.org. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
- ^ "Towards a Framework for Openness in Foundation Models". www.entropy.law. Retrieved 2025-02-07.
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