Dasha Pruss

Faculty Associate

Ethics and Governance of AI Justice, Equity, & Inclusion Technology & the Law
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Dasha Pruss is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois Chicago and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center, where she was a Fellow in 2023-2024. 

She researches the societal implications of carceral technologies, including recidivism risk assessment instruments, predictive policing tools, electronic monitoring, and police use of facial recognition technology. In 2024, she organized "Prediction and Punishment: Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Carceral AI," which brought together scholars and activists from around the world to address technologies designed to police, incarcerate, and surveil human beings. Read the report here: https://carceral-ai.com

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Inquest

Carceral AI is here. It’s time to fight back.

Dasha Pruss warns that facial recognition systems are only the tip of the carceral AI iceberg.

Feb 10, 2026
Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics and Society (AIES)

Against AI Jurisprudence

Large Language Models and the False Promises of Empirical Judging

Faculty Associate Dasha Pruss and coauthor Jessie Allen argue that LLMs provide politically illegitimate modes of juridical decisionmaking because they truncate the possibility of…

Sep 11, 2025
Open Global Rights

Carceral technology and the normalization of psychological torture

Technological “alternatives” to incarceration extend psychological torture into non-carceral spaces.

Faculty Associate Dasha Pruss and Nedah Nemati argue that technological “alternatives” to incarceration extend psychological torture beyond prisons.

Feb 20, 2025
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Prediction and Punishment

Critical Report on Carceral AI

Dasha Pruss and Petra Molnar critique carceral uses of AI and offer suggestions for mitigating this technology's use.

Nov 1, 2024
Computer Says Maybe

What the FAccT? Evidence of bias. Now what?

Dasha Pruss and co-author Marta Ziosi discuss their paper, "“Evidence of What, for Whom? The Socially Contested Role of Algorithmic Bias in a Predictive Policing Tool."

Jul 12, 2024