Yonatan Zunger
Deputy CISO and CVP of AI Safety and Security, Microsoft
Yonatan Zunger is Microsoft’s Deputy CISO and CVP of AI Safety and Security. He spent much of his career at Google, where after running teams like high-capacity search and planet-scale storage, he ended up as CTO of Social. This meant becoming Google's "Department of Weird Stuff," ultimately on the hook for (among other things) problems of security, privacy, abuse, harassment, policy, and responsible AI for Google+, News, Blogger, and much more, and helping to shape those still-nascent fields. Later on, he worked on things like the Google Assistant, and ultimately co-lead "privacy" (used there as a bracket term for all of the above) for the company. After a few years at startup Humu, where he owned an even more bewildering assortment of roles (including compliance and legal), he spent two years at Twitter as general "fixer of problems." Alas, some problems are beyond mortal intervention, which brought him to Microsoft, where his focus today is figuring out how to make generative AI safe, secure, and a net positive for society.
