Mahsa Alimardani

Mahsa Alimardani is Associate Director of Technology Threats and Opportunities at WITNESS, leading work on AI detection, content provenance, authenticity standards, and policy. Her recent writing in The Atlantic documents how AI detection tools and the liar's dividend are being weaponised during protests and conflict. Before WITNESS, she led research and advocacy on digital rights at ARTICLE 19 in the Middle East and North Africa. She advises De|Center and is a member of the Carnegie Endowment's Digital Democracy Network, and researches information controls at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford and served as a Senior Information Controls Fellow supported by the Open Technology Fund. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Politico, BBC, CNN, and British Vogue.