Sydney Levine is a cognitive scientist, who studies how insights about the human moral mind can help us build AI systems that are safer and more aligned to human values. She received her PhD from Rutgers University and then held a joint appointment as a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard and MIT. Currently, she is a research scientist at Google Deepmind. In Spring 2026, she will start as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at NYU. She is writing a book of divrei Torah, which is scheduled to be finished in 2047.