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Daniel Stone

Daniel Stone is a researcher and senior advisor specialising in technology policy, digital governance, and strategic communications. He is Executive Director of Diffusion.Au, where he leads international initiatives to promote ethical AI governance, advising Presidents, Prime Ministers, policymakers, NGOs, and technology companies on building public support for AI regulation, strengthening electoral integrity, and tackling harmful algorithmic profiling.

Daniel is also an Affiliate of Minderoo Centre for Democracy and Technology at the University of Cambridge, and is a Senior Research Associate with the Intellectual Forum at Jesus College, Cambridge. Here, his academic work focuses on how metaphors, narrative framing, and public opinion shape political behaviour, policy preferences, and perceptions of legitimacy in AI regulation. He holds an MPhil in AI ethics from the University of Cambridge and a University Medal from UTS for his honours research on how political opinions spread through social networks.

He has served as a Policy Fellow at the Centre for Responsible Technology and the Chifley Research Centre, and previously co-founded Principle Co., directing award-winning digital campaigns on social justice and democratic engagement.