Tommy is currently an AI Policy Advisor at the Centre for Long Term Resilience. Previously he led the development of a £10m AI platform for the UK government, which deployed novel ML techniques to analyse online disinformation. Prior to this, he was Head of Policy at the non-profit First Draft, where he led and consulted on projects with WHO, Stanford University, Unicef, UN, Google and Partnership on AI. He is currently completing a PhD on AI safety incidents, and how they have transformed the development of AI systems from 2012 to the present day.

Selected publications

Shaffer Shane, T. (2023) AI incidents and ‘networked trouble’: The case for a research agenda, Big Data & Society, 2023 10:2

Shaffer Shane, T. (2023) Why AI needs Phase 4 trials, tommyshaffershane.com

Shane, T, Willaert, T and Tuters, M. (2022) The rise of “gaslighting”: debates about disinformation on Twitter and 4chan, and the possibility of a “good echo chamber”, Popular Communication, 20:3, 178-192

Shane, T., Saltz, E., and Leibowicz, C. (2021) From deepfakes to TikTok filters: How do you label AI content?, First Draft

Saltz, E., Shane, T., Leibowicz, C., Kwan, V. and Wardle, C. (2020) It matters how platforms label manipulated media. Here are 12 principles designers should follow., Partnership on AI