Camille François is a French researcher working on

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and digital safety. She is a professor of practice at

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, leading a program on public interest AI, and President at ROOST.tools, a nonprofit dedicated to open source software for online safety. Camille was previously director of trust & safety at

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, an augmented reality company.

Education and career

François holds a master's degree from the

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and a master's degree in international security from

in 2013. She was a

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fellow, a fellow of the Berkman-Klein Center at

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, and served as special advisor to the CTO of France. She joined Google to work at Jigsaw, a unit within

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dedicated to exploring threats to open societies. She later joined

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as their chief innovation officer. She was featured as a ''Time'' 100 Next fellow in 2019 and as an innovator under 35 by the''

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''. Some of her research focused on cyberpeace, how states are using social media for disinformation and

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, and on people working for

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s such as the

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. She provided testimonies on Russian electoral influence operations for the

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. In 2021 she joined

as their global director of trust & safety. In 2023, she was appointed by

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to a French committee on the right to information, and with

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founded an innovation lab on AI and democracy at Columbia. In 2024, she joined the faculty at Columbia full-time, and co-organized with

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a series of public convenings on openness and AI.

References

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