Abra Ganz

Abra Ganz

Research Affiliate

Abra Ganz is a Senior Researcher at CARMA, where she leads legal research on AI risk regulation. The current focus of her research is improving oversight of AI systems and reporting of risks and incidents. In this role, she advises lawmakers on best practice legislation and agencies on report reception and evaluation, as well as recommending improvements for internal oversight mechanisms.

Prior to CARMA, Abra worked as a researcher at Yale’s Digital Ethics Center where she focused on how physical infrastructure can be used to govern digital systems. She has also done technical AI safety research at ETH Zürich (on adversarial robustness) and MIT (on inverse reinforcement learning) and authored a chapter on Proxy Gaming in the ‘AI Safety, Ethics, and Society’ textbook. Abra holds an undergraduate degree in Classics from the University of Oxford and a Master’s in Logic from the Institute of Logic, Language, and Computation at the University of Amsterdam.