Mark MacCarthy

Mark MacCarthy is a nonresident senior fellow in the Governance Studies program’s Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution and at the Institute for Technology Law and Policy at Georgetown Law. He serves as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, teaching courses in the Communication, Culture, & Technology Program and the Philosophy Department, with expertise spanning technology policy, AI ethics, privacy, competition, and content moderation.

Education:

• B.A. from Fordham University
• M.A. in economics from the University of Notre Dame
• Ph.D. in philosophy from Indiana University

His research centers on critical technology governance issues, particularly AI ethics and policy, platform responsibilities, free expression/content moderation frameworks, antitrust-privacy intersections, competition policy, and algorithmic fairness. He authored Regulating Digital Industries: How Public Oversight Can Encourage Competition, Protect Privacy, and Ensure Free Speech (Brookings, 2023) and regularly publishes commentaries in Forbes, Brookings TechTank, Lawfare, Project Syndicate, the Washington Post, CIGI, and the Hill.

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