Andreas Haupt is an economist and computer scientist at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, a Stanford Impact Labs Emerging Scholar, and the co-chair of the Global AI Governance Affinity Group.
Andy's primary research interest lies in the representation of human preferences in algorithmic systems, and their impacts on privacy and inequality. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he examined the interplay of machine learning and markets in the presence of algorithmic personalization.
His work has appeared in the proceedings of ACM FAccT, NeurIPS, and ICML, and is forthcoming in the American Economic Review. He has been a Fellow at the European Union's Directorate-General for Competition and the Federal Trade Commission, and worked as a high school teacher as a Teach First Deutschland Fellow.
He holds master's degrees in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Bonn. He is also an installation artist whose recent work on individuality and control has been shown at the Chaos Communication Congress and the Heidelberg Laureate Forum.
Fellowship Project: For the first time in history, neurotechnologies are expanding beyond clinical settings into consumer and military applications, enabling access to the most intimate data humans generate: neural signals reflecting mental states, emotions, and cognition. Simultaneously, digital surveillance in immigration enforcement is escalating and remains unchecked. These are generally treated as separate policy domains. This project brings them together, identifying neural data extraction as an emerging frontier of surveillance capitalism and border violence. It analyzes the legal mechanisms enabling government access to commercial neural data, tracing how technologies tested on bordered people scale to broader populations whose thoughts and political beliefs are treated as threats and examining how the commodification of neural data places new strain on democratic commitments to freedom of thought and political agency.