Cassidy Bereskin

Cassidy Bereskin is the Founder and Director of the Oxford Generative AI Summit, an annual multi-stakeholder expert convening on generative AI and society (oxgensummit.org).

She is also a PhD researcher and Clarendon Scholar at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, researching the efficacy of content disclosure interventions for combatting synthetic visual dis and misinformation.

Cassidy is also a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Governance on AI, as well as the author of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association's ‘Parliamentary Handbook on Disinformation, AI and Synthetic Media’ and has presented on interventions for tackling mis and disinformation in the era of deepfakes and generative AI to policymakers, diplomats, corporate leaders, and other experts around the world.

Previously, Cassidy founded and directed the Oxford Synthetic Media Forum, worked on The Alan Turing Institute’s Online Safety Team and analyzed data at Vox Pop Labs in Canada.

She holds an MSc with Distinction from the Oxford Internet Institute and a BA from McMaster University, where she graduated as valedictorian.