Silvia Margot Lindtner (she/her) is Associate Professor in the School of Information and Director of the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC) at the University of Michigan. She is the author of the award-winning book Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation (Princeton University Press, 2020), and co-author of Technoprecarious (Goldsmiths/MIT Press 2020). Lindtner has spent over 15 years conducting ethnographic research, predominantly in China but also in the United States, Africa, Taiwan, and Singapore. Her research program advances the critical, social, and cultural study of information technology. Subjects she has written about include China's shifting place in the global political economy of innovation, how data-driven systems are changing industrial and agricultural production, and the affective labor that sustains innovation economies. Lindtner has been a Visiting Associate Professor at NYU Shanghai (2021-2024), a CUSP (China-US Scholars Program) Fellow (2021-22), and a fellow in the National Committee on United States-China Relations’ Public Intellectuals Program (2021-23). Her work has appeared in ST&HV (Science, Technology, and Human Values), ESTS (Engaging Science, Technology and Society), SocialText, Women’s Studies Quarterly, China Information, the proceedings of the ACM as well as in New York Magazine and The Atlantic, among other venues. At the Paul Tsai China Center, Lindtner will be working on the theme of AI governance and control in the US-China context, including a third book project, tentatively titled "Feeling Like a State: Control in the Age of AI."