Garance Burke

Garance Burke is a global investigative journalist with The Associated Press, where she leads investigations on the societal impacts of AI technologies. Her work has prompted federal investigations, cabinet-level resignations and congressional hearings, has been honored as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for National Reporting and received awards including the Robert F. Kennedy John Seigenthaler Prize for Courage in Journalism. In 2019, her collaborative projects on the treatment of migrant children on the U.S.-Mexico border were the subject of the first documentary film partnership between FRONTLINE PBS and AP, which won a National News & Documentary Emmy Award. Burke spent 2020 at Stanford University, where she was a joint fellow with the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships-Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Based in San Francisco, last year she wrote the new AI chapter of AP Stylebook. Burke’s work as a journalist began in Mexico City, where she was a reporter at the Mexican financial daily El Financiero and on staff at The Washington Post.