Pamela Ugwudike is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Southampton. Her research explores the ethical, legal and social implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, with a focus on the predictive and surveillant technologies deployed by justice systems around the world. Her research which explored the conduits of bias affecting predictive policing algorithms was funded by the Alan Turing Institute (the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence). She has also led another project that explored the role of social media AI in digital exclusion and knowledge production for criminal justice, and the study was funded by the Web Science Institute. Her current research is exploring, inter alia, the ethics of content moderation and recommendation AI systems deployed by social media platforms. It is funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council. Professor Ugwudike has published extensively on the topic of AI ethics, and she was a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute (the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence) from 2021 to 2024. She is still affiliated with the Institute through her work on research ethics. She is also a co-Editor-in-Chief of Criminology and criminal Justice, the flagship Journal of the British Society of Criminology.