Swati Srivastava is Associate Professor of Government & Politics and Core Faculty in the AI Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM) at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Non-Resident Scholar on Digital Futures at New America.
She also directs the International Politics and Responsible Tech (iPART) lab. Previously, she was a Visiting Scholar with the Institute for Rebooting Social Media at BKC (2023-24). Srivastava’s current research examines the global power of Big Tech, the geopolitics of AI development, and responsibility attribution problems in AI governance. She is the author of Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Responsible AI and Structural Justice: Addressing Harm When Blame is Hard to Find (Cambridge Elements in AI Ethics and Society, forthcoming), along with numerous articles in top disciplinary journals. Her research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Srivastava received her doctorate in political science from Northwestern University, where she held affiliations with the Buffett Institute for Global Studies and the Center for Legal Studies.
