David Evan Harris

David Evan Harris is a Senior Research Fellow. He joined ICSI in 2023. He also holds appointments as Chancellor’s Public Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley; Continuing Lecturer at the Haas School of Business; and Senior Advisor, AI Ethics at the Psychology of Technology Institute. From 2018 to 2023, he worked at Facebook and then Meta on teams confronting some of the most challenging issues facing the company—civic integrity, misinformation and responsible AI. He teaches classes at UC Berkeley including AI Ethics for Leaders; Civic Technology; Social Movements & Social Media; and Scenario Planning & Futures Thinking. David is an Affiliated Faculty at the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS); Center for Latin American Studies; Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership (EGAL); and the Business and Public Policy Group at UC Berkeley. His research interests are AI ethics, misinformation, elections, social media, technology policy, user experience research, deceptive design, digital literacy, and global development.

In his prior role at the Institute for the Future (IFTF), David served as Research Director, leading research on the future of philanthropy, media, governance, international development and social movements from 2008-2018. In 2004, he founded the non-profit Global Lives Project, a video library of life experience around the world, produced by thousands of collaborating filmmakers, photographers and translators. As a student, David was an intern at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and a Confidential Assistant at the Office of Management and Budget, Natural Resources Division. David studied at the University of São Paulo (M.S., Sociology) and UC Berkeley (B.A., Political Economy of Environment & Development).

David has conducted research, studied and given talks in person in 37 countries and speaks fluent English, Portuguese and Spanish, as well as intermediate French. David’s first book, Você vai me servir: Emprego doméstico no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos [You will serve me: Domestic work in Brazil and the United States], was published in Brazil in 2022.