At UW–Madison, Professor Zimmermann is a member of the University’s interdisciplinary cluster in the ethics of computing, data, and information, is an Affiliate Professor at the Department of Statistics, and co-leads the Uncertainty & AI group at the Institute for Research in the Humanities. Before joining the UW-Madison’s Department of Philosophy, Professor Zimmermann was a Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. In addition, Professor Zimmermann was a permanent Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at the University of York, and a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University, with a joint appointment at the Center for Human Values and the Center for Information Technology Policy. Zimmermann holds a PhD from the University of Oxford.
Professor Zimmermann’s first book is titled Democratizing AI (2026). Zimmermann’s research has been published in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy and in Philosophy and Public Affairs, and their recent public writing has appeared in the New Statesman and in the Boston Review. Professor Zimmermann frequently advises policy-makers and technologists working on contemporary ethical and political issues surrounding AI and other forms of technology.
At NEMO’s European Museum Conference 2026, Annette Zimmermann will be opening the conference with her keynote on Monday, 12 October.
