Dr. Samantha Cole

Dr. Samantha Cole holds a doctorate in computer science with a specialisation in machine learning from Stanford University, where she also completed a fellowship in AI ethics. She spent three years as a researcher at a Bay Area AI laboratory before concluding that the most important contribution she could make was explaining what was actually happening in AI to the people whose lives it would affect most. At Discovia, Sam covers large language models, computer vision, AI safety research, autonomous systems, and the policy debates shaping how the world governs the technology. She writes with clarity about a field notorious for obfuscation, and her readers — from students to senior executives — trust her to tell them what is genuinely new versus what is repackaged noise. She is based in San Jose.