Biography

Gerol Petruzella is an Academic Technology Consultant at Williams College, and holds a Ph.D. in philosophy, with concentrations in ethics and logic. In 2018 he served on the IEEE working group for Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-being with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, a standards document for prioritizing ethics in
the creation of AI. He has presented at numerous conferences, from the University of St. Andrews (Scotland) to SXSWedu. His recent presentations have included "Conversational Computing; or, how genAI reveals (and subverts) our HCI assumptions" at NERD Summit 2024 at UMass-Amherst. He's interested in privacy-preserving, locally-installed genAI applications.