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Virginia Dignum is Professor of Responsible Artificial Intelligence at Umeå University, Sweden, where she leads the AI Policy Lab. She is a leading voice in global AI policy, advising the Wallenberg Foundations, co-chairing the IEEE Global Initiative on the Ethics of Autonomous Systems, and chairing the ACM Technology Policy Council. She is a member of expert groups at UNESCO, OECD, and was part of the EU’s High-Level Expert Group on AI, and UN’s High Level Advisory Body on AI. She also founded ALLAI, the Dutch AI Alliance. Her forthcoming book, The AI Paradox, will be published by Princeton University Press in 2025.