Josh Joseph is Berkman Klein’s Chief AI Scientist, the first role of its kind at BKC. Josh will lead teams to explore measuring and controlling the agency of AI systems, benchmarking these systems beyond measures of“intelligence,” and to help build the infrastructure for in-house AI research.
Josh received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his research focused on how artificial systems can learn to act in the presence of the complexity of the real-world. Following his Ph.D., he worked in industry building AI systems in finance and life sciences before returning to academia to serve as the Chief Intelligence Architect of MIT’s Quest for Intelligence. He then co-founded and serves as the Chief Science Officer at Covariance.ai, an MIT startup that was selected as a STEX25 company of the MIT Startup Exchange and won the 2024 Cubies Innovation Prize from the D^3 Institute at Harvard University.
In addition to being BKC’s Chief AI Scientist, Josh currently holds appointments as a Visiting Scientist at MIT and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.
