Team

Stewarded by interdisciplinary industry leaders

The Institutional Coherence Initiative is shaped by researchers, governance experts, technologists, and systems thinkers who share a concern: humanity’s institutions were not designed for the responsibilities created by advanced AI.

Each Founding Humanity Partner brings a distinct perspective on how institutions drift away from their values—and how new governance infrastructure might help restore coherence between intention, decision-making, and societal impact.

The team includes:

Jennifer Kinne (Harvard University, Faculty of Arts & Sciences) is ICI's Head of Epistemic Integrity. She brings more than two decades of research operations, risk, and compliance experience at one of the world’s leading research institutions, with deep domain expertise across life sciences, healthcare, financial services, and research administration. Her work on AI governance architecture in regulated environments has produced a distinct body of scholarship and a patent-pending method — VeracIQ — that addresses how institutions detect and correct epistemic drift before it produces regulatory, legal, or reputational failure. Her academic background spans epistemology, neuroscience, and formal logic, giving her governance work an unusually rigorous theoretical foundation. Jennifer leads ICI’s epistemic integrity workstream, where she sets standards for evidence-chain integrity, traceability, and drift risk assessment across pilot implementations — ensuring that the framework holds up not just as policy guidance but as operational infrastructure in domains where institutional decisions carry real consequences.
- Read about Jennifer here.

"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned."

-Richard Feynman

Dr. A.C. Ping, PhD (Visiting Research Fellow, Philosophy Department, University of Adelaide) is ICI's Head of Spiritual & Philosophical Integration. He brings deep expertise in ethics, governance, and the human factors that cause institutions to drift from their stated values under pressure. His creation of a Moral Intention Analyst LLM gives him complementary insight into identifying neutralizations of high-quality reasoning, such as fear, self-justification, optimization anxiety, short-termism, and moral drift. Dr. Ping also is collaborating on creating an AI that integrates Buddhist principles.

“Good people rarely intend harm; the environments and incentives around them reshape how their decisions feel justified.”

-Dr. A.C. Ping, PhD

Lefteris (Jason) Anastasopoulos (Associate Professor, Public Administration and Statistics, University of Georgia) is ICI's Head of Social Research. He brings a rare combination of political-economy analysis, public-administration expertise, and methodological rigor to ICI’s democratic participation work. His work is focused on the political economy of technology, public administration, international political economy, causal inference, and machine learning, and he also serves as a Faculty Fellow with the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and the Center for International Trade and Security. His participation in publications and seminars with the Journal for Democracy and National Endowment for Democracy underscores the value he will add to innovating methods for ensuring democratic participation in questions of societal importance.
- Read about Jason here (LinkedIn) or here (Google Scholar).
- A statistician and social scientist, Lefteris studies large-scale decision systems and the incentives that shape institutional behavior.

“The mechanism that determines who gets heard has little to do with who knows what they’re talking about.”

-Prof. Anastasopoulos, How Many Followers Would Plato Have?, Journal of Democracy

Andrea “Andi” Mazingo, Esq. (Founding Attorney, Lumen Law Center) is ICI's Head of Institutional Governance & Systems Reform. She created this collaboration of senior professionals based upon her intuition that we are at a threshold moment requiring us to remember human interdependence and love. Her frequent engagement with employees and shareholders of major technology corporations allows her unique, big-picture insight into overarching concerns of relevant stakeholders, particularly employees impacted by AI-automated mass layoffs. Her background at major law firms in corporate governance, internal investigations, and securities litigation defense gives her insight into the thinking of large corporations’ officers and directors--and the legal advice they are likely receiving. Her experience launching a nonprofit’s family reunification interdisciplinary team and advocating to help formerly incarcerated mothers overcome systemic barriers to reuniting with their children demonstrates her depth of understanding regarding systems reform. Her experience as former Chief Ethics Officer at an AI company, and her auDHD neurodivergent perspective, illustrate the depth of her ethical coherence.
- Read about Andi here.

“To will oneself free is also to will others free.”

- Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

Eaon Pritchard (Founder, The Signal Works) is ICI's Head of Messaging & Transparency. He brings three decades of strategic communications experience across the UK, US, and Australia to ICI's work translating institutional coherence into public understanding. A recognised authority on consumer psychology and applied behavioural science, Eaon has spent his career studying how communications and interventions work with human nature rather than against it — a discipline directly relevant to ICI's mandate of making AI-integrated institutional decision-making legible to the people it affects. Eaon's agency pedigree includes multi-award-winning tenures at Weapon7 in London and Clemenger BBDO in Melbourne, where he served as the agency's first Director of Digital Innovation. He has led strategy for Australian Federal Government communications at Dentsu and IPG, including work on a general election and the Australian Marriage Equality referendum, and has held senior strategy roles at UM Australia, Bray & Co (New York), and cummins&partners. He is co-founder of TheSignalWorks and founder of ArtScienceTechnology, a behavioural consulting practice. He is the author of four books examining marketing, communications, and human behaviour — Where Did It All Go Wrong? (2018), Shot By Both Sides (2020), If There's A Hell Below We're All Gonna Go (2023), and Chairman of the Bored (2025) — a contributor to the APG textbook Eat Your Greens: Fact-Based Thinking To Improve Your Brand's Health, and co-author of several academic papers. He writes regular columns for AdNews Australia and MediaCat UK, speaks frequently on the industry circuit, and serves on the board of Aberdeen Arts Centre.

The Institutional Coherence Initiative is an evolving collaboration across governance, AI research, institutional design, and ethics. Additional contributors and advisors will be announced as the work develops.