PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Alice Xiang

Alice Xiang is a lawyer and statistician who works on fairness and ethical data in AI. After studying economics and statistics at Harvard, economics at Oxford and law at Yale, she led fairness, transparency, and accountability research at the Partnership on AI. At Sony AI she created the AI ethics research lab in 2020, and her paper "Position: Measure Dataset Diversity, Don't Just Claim It" won a Best Paper Award at ICML 2024. In 2025 she led the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark (FHIBE), published in Nature, and Nature named her one of its Ones to Watch for 2026. She is Global Head of AI Governance and a Vice President at Sony, and Lead Research Scientist directing a lab for responsible AI.

Now at
Sony
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Timeline

  1. By 2014

    Harvard, Oxford and data science

    She earns a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in statistics at Harvard, and a master's degree in development economics at Oxford. In 2014, as a data scientist at a technology company, she builds her first commercial machine learning model and finds no guidelines for assessing biases in its data.

  2. By 2020

    Yale Law and Partnership on AI

    She earns a J.D. at Yale Law School and works at the Partnership on AI as head of fairness, transparency, and accountability research. In 2019, she coauthors the arXiv study "Explainable Machine Learning in Deployment," which explores how organizations view and use explainability. In 2020, she serves on the Partnership on AI's leadership team.

  3. 2020

    An AI ethics lab at Sony AI

    She creates the AI ethics research lab at Sony AI in 2020, and her role soon grows to include AI ethics governance for Sony.

  4. 2022

    General Chair of FAccT 2022

    She serves as General Chair of the 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.

  5. 2024

    ICML Best Paper on dataset diversity

    Her paper "Position: Measure Dataset Diversity, Don't Just Claim It," written with Dora Zhao, Jerone Andrews and Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, wins a Best Paper Award at ICML 2024. The paper reviews 135 image and text datasets and applies measurement theory to how dataset diversity is defined and evaluated.

  6. 2025

    The FHIBE fairness benchmark

    She leads the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark (FHIBE), a publicly available fairness dataset of 10,318 consensually collected images of 1,981 people, published in Nature in 2025. In December 2025, Nature names her one of its Ones to Watch for 2026, citing her work on and leadership of FHIBE.

  7. 2026

    Top 100 Women in AI

    AI Magazine includes her in its Top 100 Women in AI for 2026.

  8. As of October 2026

    Global head of AI governance

    She is Global Head of AI Governance and a Vice President at Sony, where she leads the team shaping AI governance policies and frameworks across Sony Group's business units. She is also Lead Research Scientist, directing a lab of researchers and engineers on responsible AI.

Career

  1. Since 2020SonyGlobal Head of AI Governance and Vice President
  2. Partnership on AIHead of fairness, transparency, and accountability research

Education

  1. Harvard UniversityBachelor's degree in economics
  2. University of OxfordMaster's degree in development economics
  3. Yale UniversityJ.D.

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Videos

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  1. Privacy vs Fairness in Computer Vision with Alice Xiang - 637The TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington · 10 July 2023 · 42 min

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  1. Direct Form 990 pay in the latest returns of 39 nonprofits with AI people on this site is highest at $2.1M at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) (2024)Includes Alice Xiang. IRS Form 990 compensation across 39 nonprofits with AI people on this site from 2012 to 2025: in the latest returns, Mozilla reports $6.1M including related-company pay (2024) and the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) leads direct nonprofit pay at $2.1M (2024).
  2. Language models reach 33% of 2020s entrants, and company shares run from 8% in pattern recognition to 91% in AI infrastructureIncludes Alice Xiang. We estimate how research topics in AI changed across seven entry decades (6,853 people from the 1960s to the 2020s) and how 60 major topics split between companies (8% to 91%) and universities (10% to 93%).
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Sony. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Sony. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Sights on AI: Alice Xiang Discusses the Ever-Changing Nature of AI Ethics and Sony AI's Impact on Responsible AI ai.sony. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Alice Xiang – Sony AI ai.sony. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Alice Xiang - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. AI could see "people living as second-class citizens" warns Alice Xiang dezeen.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. [1909.06342] Explainable Machine Learning in Deployment arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. ICML 2024 Awards icml.cc. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Ushering in Needed Change in the Pursuit of More Diverse Datasets - Sony AI ai.sony. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Fair human-centric image dataset for ethical AI benchmarking | Nature nature.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  9. Sony AI's Alice Xiang Named Among Nature's "Ones to Watch" for 2026 for Pioneering Work in Advancing Ethical AI - Sony AI ai.sony. Checked 21 October 2026.