Carina prunkl
AI ethics and governance researcher working on AI safety evaluation, agency, and institutional decision-making.
I am a researcher in AI ethics and governance, with a background in physics, philosophy of science, and AI ethics. My main research focus is on the ethics and governance of advanced AI systems, especially questions of evaluation, safety, agency, and institutional decision-making.
Current roles:
Research Scientist, Inria REGALIA
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
Lead Writer, 2026 International AI Safety Report
Co-Investigator, CHAILD Project
Research focus:
Current projects examine: (i) human agency and autonomy in the context of general-purpose AI, (ii) the science of evaluation, including problem specification; and (iii) AI as bureaucratic decision-making, analysing rule-boundedness, discretion, and consistency and their implications for legitimacy and accountability.
See here some of my previous work on:
autonomy and AI;
Background:
Previously, I worked as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI and was a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. I am a member of the advisory committee for the Global Association for Risk Professionals’ (GARP) Risks and AI program. Previously, I was a member of the Humanities Cultural Programme Steering Committee and have worked as an Ethics Advisor for Digital Catapult.
I hold a DPhil in Philosophy and an MSt in Philosophy of Physics from the University of Oxford as well as a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Freie Universität Berlin. I also hold a Certificate for Data Science and AI from LeWagon.