Phil Bernstein is deputy dean and adjunct professor at the Yale School of Architecture, where he teaches courses in professional practice, project delivery, and technology. He was formerly a vice president at Autodesk, where he was responsible for setting the company’s AEC vision and strategy for technology. Prior to joining Autodesk, Bernstein practiced architecture as an associate principal at Cesar Pelli & Associates where he managed many of the firm’s most complex commissions, including projects for Reagan National Airport, the Mayo Clinic, UCLA, and Goldman Sachs. He writes extensively on issues of architectural practice and technology, and his books include Architecture | Design | Data – Practice Competency in the Era of Computation (Birkhauser, 2018) and Machine Learning: Architectural Futures in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (RIBA, 2022). Bernstein has been honored twice by DesignIntelligence as one of the “30 Most Admired Educators in Architecture” and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He received a BA and MA from Yale, and is licensed to practice in California. 

Jay Cephas is an assistant professor in the history and theory of architecture and the J. Maclean Junior University Preceptor at Princeton University. He is also a research director at the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities. His research concerns the intersection of labor, technology, and social identity in the built environment. His forthcoming book, Fordism and the City, examines the extended urbanizations formed in the wake of industrial mass production in the early 20th century. Cephas is also the founding director of the Black Architects Archive, an interactive repository that documents the work of Black architects, builders, landscape architects, and contractors working across the 19th and 20th centuries.

Molly Wright Steenson is the CEO & President of the American Swedish Institute, a 95 year-old museum and cultural institution, and an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the School of Design (on leave). She is an internationally recognized author, historian, and designer whose research interests include AI, architecture, design, and craft practices. Steenson is the author of Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape (2017) and the co-edited book Bauhaus Futures (2019), both on MIT Press. From 2015–23 at Carnegie Mellon, she was vice provost for faculty and held the inaugural K&L Gates Associate Professorship in Ethics and Computational Technologies. and associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She holds a PhD in architecture from Princeton University.  

Mona Sloane is an assistant professor of data science and media studies and a faculty co-lead of the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia. As a sociologist, she studies the intersection of technology and society, specifically in the context of AI design, use, and policy. She also convenes the Co-Opting AI series and serves as the editor of the Co-Opting AI book series at the University of California Press as well as the Technology Editor for Public Books. At UVA, she runs Sloane Lab, which conducts empirical research on the implications of technology for the organization of social life. Its focus lies on AI as a social phenomenon that intersects with wider cultural, economic, material, and political conditions. The lab spearheads social science leadership in applied work on responsible AI, public scholarship, and technology policy.