Joshua Joseph is an artificial intelligence researcher and practitioner.
He 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. MIT’s Quest for Intelligence is a cross disciplinary research effort aimed at understanding how brains produce intelligence and how that intelligence can be replicated in artificial systems.
Josh 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. He currently holds appointments as a Visiting Scientist at MIT, a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School where he will be co-teaching Agentic Artificial Intelligence and the Law this academic year.