Art is a Resident Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project and the Schmidt Visiting Scholar on AI and Lecturer in Global Affairs at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs.
He has researched AI and platform governance, as well as privacy and data protection. The Berkeley Technology Law Journal, the Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Computer Science & the Law and the Journal of Free Speech Law feature his articles. He has presented his research at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference, the ACM Symposium on CS & the Law, the Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference, the Platform Governance Network Conference, and Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute’s symposium on free speech and misinformation.
At Yale, he has taught Global Law and Policy of AI (Yale Law School & Jackson School of Global Affairs) and Technology, Security, and Power (Yale College, Computer Science). He advises graduate and undergraduate students working on AI governance, and served as a Faculty Delegation Leader for the Yale–Renmin Student Dialogue on AI, Emerging Technology, and U.S.-China Relations. Art edits YLS’s ISP Digital Future Whitepaper Series, and convened the Governing Algorithms Workshop and the AI Workshop.
Before Yale, Art was Head of Research at InternetLab. He continues collaborating with civil society. An independent legal opinion he authored for nonprofit Ekō informs the largest-ever case on data protection in Brazil. He has served as an expert for Freedom House’s Freedom on the Net report. He has been invited to address the United Nation’s Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and the Organization of American States’ Office of the Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression. Previously, he was a law clerk and practiced in Brazil, advising technology companies on data protection and intellectual property.