
Post-Doctoral Fellow
McMaster Unviersity—Digital Society Lab
ORI FREIMAN, Ph.D., is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at McMaster University’s Digital Society Lab, where he explores the intersection of technologies, democracy, and social change. His dissertation at Bar-Ilan University in Israel studied the topic of trust in technologies and focused on blockchain networks and AIs. He recently completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Ethics of AI Lab at the University of Toronto, where he researched the concept of ‘Trustworthy AI’ and its relation to policy-making and ethics-washing. He has authored several reports about technology, human rights, privacy, and democracy, some of which have been published in leading outlets.