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Daniel researches how people actually think about AI—and helps policymakers, foundations, and advocates do something useful with that knowledge.

Through large-scale polling and message testing across the US, UK, and Australia, he's found that public opinion on technology is considerably more nuanced than the usual "techlash versus techno-optimism" framing suggests. His research gives decision-makers the evidence to close the gap between what elites assume voters want and what they actually care about—and make better choices as a result.

Over fifteen years, Daniel has advised heads of government, federal and state cabinet ministers, ASX 100 executives, government departments, and more than a hundred civil society organisations on complex policy challenges. Most recently on AI governance, but previously across a range of issues where public opinion and political strategy intersect, such as climate change, migration, education and healthcare.

He's currently Executive Director of Diffusion.Au, a Research Affiliate at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at Cambridge, and a Senior Research Associate at the Intellectual Forum at Jesus College, Cambridge.

Daniel is Australian, frequently in the UK and US, and happy to talk to journalists—he's provided commentary for the BBC, LBC, Politico, The Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, Tech Policy Press, and others.