Sylvester Johnson

Co-founder and CEO · Corporation for Public Interest Technology · company speakers →

Sylvester A. Johnson is co-founder and CEO of the Corporation for Public Interest Technology. Working at the intersection of technology and humanities, he is also a faculty member in the Department of Black Studies at Northwestern University. He previously served as Associate Vice Provost for Public Interest Technology and Director of the Center for Humanities at Virginia Tech, where he was a faculty member in the Department of Religion and Culture. Sylvester also served as Executive Director of the Tech for Humanity initiative at Virginia Tech. Sylvester's work advances human-centered research and development of new approaches to ethical governance of technology, focusing on artificial Intelligence, inequality, human-machine combining (cybernetics), and synthetic biology. Before moving to Virginia Tech, he worked at Northwestern University in African American Studies and Religious Studies, where he led a collaborative AI project. His research examines religion, race, and empire in Atlantic geographies; religion and sexuality; and the impact of AI technologies on human identity.

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