Cristina Patrick is an Equal Employment Opportunity Specialist (EEO) and AI safety advocate with a background in humanities. Her professional expertise, spanning EEO enforcement, communication, outreach program management, and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, (DEIA) work, informs her approach to AI governance, where she focuses on risks and the cultural and societal dimensions of emerging technology.

She believes that responsibility for AI must be located upstream, with the companies building and deploying these systems, and that accountability must be embedded in design decisions and institutional structures rather than delegated to individual users. She is also attentive to the language of AI, how terms like "agents" or "hallucinations" shape public understanding, and to the invisible biases that technology, much like language, can carry across cultural contexts.

Originally from Rome, Italy, and based in the United States, Cristina brings a cross-cultural perspective to questions of technology and power. She is the creator of The Responsible AI Brief, a Substack newsletter where she explores the real-world impact of AI systems on communities. https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristinaolivapatrick; https://cristinapatrick.substack.com/.