Paola Cantarini Guerra

Founder and president of Instituto EthikAI

Paola Cantarini Guerra helps boards, courts, and organizations know what they can prove about the artificial intelligence they use. A legal scholar and philosopher, with three doctorates, in Law and Philosophy from PUC-SP and in Philosophy of Law from Università del Salento, and ten postdoctoral programs in Brazil and abroad, she founds and presides over Instituto EthikAI, which neither develops nor commercializes AI systems and can therefore assess without commercial conflict. She coordinates the AI Governance Group of the Understanding AI project at the Institute of Advanced Studies of USP, and is the academic coordinator of the Center for Advanced Studies in Law and Innovation (CEADIN) at the Ribeirão Preto School of Law of USP. She is co-author of a policy brief submitted to T20 Brazil 2024 and author of more than 25 books and 300 articles. In 2026, she is a guest researcher at the University of Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI and the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) in Berlin, and a visiting researcher at Université Paris Cité.