person
Shoshana Zuboff
Harvard Business School emerita; surveillance capitalism theorist
Harvard business school emerita whose 2019 book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism reframed AI governance as a political-economy problem about unilateral data extraction by digital firms.
Profile
expertise
External-domain expert
Recognised expert outside AI (philosophy, economics, biology, journalism) who weighs in on AI consequences from that vantage.
Harvard Business School emerita. 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism' (2019) framed how data harvesting and AI shape modern economy.
recognition
Household name
Name recognition outside the AI/CS community. Featured by mainstream press, a Wikipedia page in many languages, a published bestseller, or holds a position the lay public knows.
NYT bestseller author; mainstream press regular.
vintage
Deep-learning rise
Came up post-AlexNet. ImageNet, AlphaGo, transformer paper. DeepMind, Google Brain, FAIR establish the modern lab template.
Surveillance Capitalism 2019, a deep-learning era critique built on a longer Harvard-Business career.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesArgues AI governance requires dismantling the surveillance-capitalism extraction model that underlies modern ML.
“Surveillance capitalism unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-24.