Yonatan Zunger
About Yonatan Zunger
I'm CVP of AI Safety & Security at Microsoft, charged with ensuring that our stakeholders have justified confidence in the safety of our generative AI products. "Justified" is the load-bearing word in that: we do everything from building platforms and infrastructure, to evaluating and reviewing every GAI system before launch, to building the training, documentation, and tooling that empowers teams to build well, to incident detection and response. In prior careers, I've been Distinguished Engineer at Twitter, acting as "general fixer" for the company, and Distinguished Engineer and Chief Ethics Officer at Humu, where I was responsible for ranking, storage, security, privacy, data processing infrastructure, compliance, IT, and legal -- fortunately managing to hire some fantastic people to own these things down the road, as I am *not* a lawyer. Prior to that, I spent 14 years at Google, where (among other jobs) I led the company's technical data governance efforts in the run-up to GDPR (2017), led infrastructure for the Google Assistant (2015-16), was Chief Architect for all its social efforts (2011-15), was architect and lead engineer for one of its major planet-scale distributed storage systems (BS2, also marketed as Google Cloud Storage, 2008-11), and designed, built, and led the company's high-capacity search group (2004-8). My real job from 2011 on was "the guy who deals with weird but complicated situations that have an engineering aspect," which is why I've been especially deeply involved in privacy, policy, and abuse issues around the company, including working on GDPR efforts from the law's early drafting stages. That interest and passion for creating safe and respectful experiences for users continues to be one of my main guiding beacons in my profession.