Glen Berman

I study things called Artificial Intelligence and their relationship to the production of scientific knowledge.

I'm a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at MetaMelb, University of Melbourne, and a Senior Researcher at the HASS Digital Research Hub at Australian National University. I live in Melbourne (Naarm), Australia.

Things I'm writing about at the moment

From prediction markets to capability markets: epistemic extractivism in Generative AI. This is a paper James Smithies and I have developed, which is currently under review at journal and will also be presented at AIES 2026.
The arc of metascience. I'm working on a genealogy of metascience, as part of a larger ARC Discovery Project led by Fiona Fidler and Kate Williams.

Selected publications

Berman, G., Cooper, N., Deng, WH., Huang, A., Shelby, R., Hutchinson, B. (2026). Death by a thousand taxonomies: AI risk classification in practice. 2026 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES).
Berman, G., Williams, K., Cohen, E. (2025). The benefits of being between (many) fields: Mapping the high-dimensional space of AI research. Big Data & Society, 12(1). doi.org/10.1177/20539517241306355
Berman, G., Goyal, N., Madaio, M. (2024). A Scoping Study of Evaluation Practices for Responsible AI Tools: Steps Towards Effectiveness Evaluations. 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642398
Williams, K., Berman, G., Michalska, S. (2023). Investigating hybridity in artificial intelligence research. Big Data & Society, 10(2). doi.org/10.1177/20539517231180577

Other writing

A short commentary on the metaphor of GenAI as an epistemic carcinogen, published in AI & Society.
A personal reflection on Jewish safety, published in The Guardian after the 2025 Bondi attack.

Other projects

AI as Infrastructure is a small project James Smithies and I have been working on. We've developed ATLAS, an open-source harness for evaluating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over archival and cultural collections, and through workshops with practitioners have produced a number of Responsible AI resources.
I used to work in social change organisations. These days, I contribute through my role as Chair of the Board at GetUp, one of the largest campaign organisations in Australia with over a million members fighting for a fair, flourishing, and just Australia.