Ignacio Cofone

Ignacio Cofone is the Professor of Law and Regulation of AI at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law and Institute for Ethics in AI. He is also an Affiliate Member of the Quebec AI Institute (Mila) and an Affiliated Fellow of the Yale Law School Information Society Project. His current research examines how law and regulation should respond to social and economic changes driven by AI with a focus onharms produced by machine inferences. 

Formerly the Canada Research Chair in AI Law and Data Governance at McGill University until 2024, he remains one of the leading voices in shaping Canadian privacy law and technology regulation. He is also author of The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy (Cambridge University Press 2023), which examines how to reform privacy law for the data economy, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s Policy Proposals for PIPEDA Reform to Address AI (2020), prepared on the basis of extensive public consultations. He has advised law firms, courts, companies, and government organizations—including the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec—on modernizing privacy law and on adapting and applyinglegal frameworks to AI.