Denise Garcia is a full Professor at Northeastern University in Boston since 2006, appointed at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, and a founding faculty member of its Experiential Robotics Institute. Before joining Northeastern, she worked for three years at the World Peace Foundation at the Belfer Center for Science at Harvard University.
She is formerly a member of the International Panel for the Regulation of Autonomous Weapons (2017-2022), of the Research Board of the Toda Peace Institute (Tokyo, 2020-2023), and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (Autonomous Weapons Group). She is currently a member of the Institute for Economics and Peace (Sydney) and an advisor to the Global Challenges Foundation (Stockholm). She was the funded Nobel Peace Institute Fellow in Oslo in 2017. Garcia collaborates closely with projects in her home country, Brazil.
A multiple teaching award-winner, her recent publications appeared in the American Academy for Arts and Sciences (Science and Diplomacy Journal), Nature, Foreign Affairs, International Relations, and other top journals. Her latest book is The AI Military Race: Common Good Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Oxford University Press, 2023), in which she examines the complexities entailed in creating a global framework to govern the military use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by proposing inclusive and humane ways to forge cooperation.
Garcia has curated an annual month-long immersive program in Geneva since 2007. She brings her students to learn about diplomacy, world politics, and citizen science and technology in the capital of peace. She has a Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International Studies of the University of Geneva. She teaches International Law every semester at Northeastern’s Boston campus and is creating a course on AI and World Politics to start in 2025.