Petter Ericson

Petter Ericson is a Researcher at the Department of Computer Science, Umeå University, specializing in Responsible AI. His work bridges graph theory, formal grammars, and ethics, with interdisciplinary interests in music and sociotechnical systems. Affiliated with the Responsible AI Research Group, he explores the alignment of AI with human values.

Ericson’s research spans formal computational models, including hyperedge replacement grammars and order-preserving DAGs, alongside AI ethics and fairness frameworks. His publications address sociotechnical limits in AI safety, artistic shifts through AI, and graph language learnability.

He has contributed to interdisciplinary projects like Concordia, a musical XR instrument for planetary data sonification, and Musereduce, a hierarchical music analysis framework. Ericson applies computational methods to Bayesian music theory and jazz harmony datasets.