Eryk Salvaggio, University of Cambridge

Eryk Salvaggio is a researcher and artist interested in the social and cultural impacts of artificial intelligence. He is a researcher on AI, art and education at the metaLab (at) Harvard University, a former artist-in-residence at the Max Planck Institute’s Machine Visual Culture Research Group at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, a former research fellow at the Flickr Foundation, and a 2025 writing fellow for Tech Policy Press. For four years, he served as the Emerging Technology Research Advisor to the Siegel Family Endowment. He holds an MSc in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and an MSc in Applied Cybernetics from the Australian National University.

Eryk is a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge for a PhD in the Digital Humanities, examining the relationship between archival practices and generative AI.