Lynne Parker

Lynne E. Parker is Principal Deputy Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Executive Director of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. She is also Associate Vice Chancellor Emerita (retired) and Founding Director of the AI Tennessee Initiative at the University of Tennessee. Previously, she was Deputy United States Chief Technology Officer and Founding Director of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office at the United States' White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She is an American AI policymaker, and a roboticist specializing in multi-robot systems, swarm robotics, and distributed artificial intelligence.

Parker has warned that AI will replace jobs where human tasks can be performed more efficiently by computers, create deep fakes, and be used by authoritarian governments for surveillance and to repress dissent; but that there are positive aspects to AI such as improving healthcare, personalized learning, and making consumer products more safe.