Daniel Araya is professor of artificial intelligence and learning at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China. He’s a senior partner with the World Legal Summit and a senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation. His current work focuses on human-machine symbiosis and its impact on the global economy and a changing world order. Araya is a regular contributor to various media outlets and policy organizations, including Forbes, the Brookings Institution, the National Post, Futurism and Singularity Hub. He has been invited to speak on news and media programs such as Deutsche Welle and TRT World. He’s given presentations at Harvard University, Stanford University, the American Enterprise Institute, the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, the Canadian Department of National Defence, the Center for Global Policy Solutions and Microsoft Research. His most recent books include Augmented Education in the Global Age (2023), Augmented Intelligence: Smart Systems and the Future of Work and Learning (2018) and Smart Cities as Democratic Ecologies (2015). He has a doctorate in public policy from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.