Maxwell Taylor, The University of Chicago
Maxwell Taylor is a rising fourth-year student at The University of Chicago, double majoring in political science and race, diaspora, and indigeneity. He is currently working on his honors thesis on the emergence of artificial intelligence in the criminal justice system and how this new technology encounters social dilemmas like racial bias. As a research assistant for renowned political scientist, Cathy Cohen, Max worked with the GenForward survey team and the UChicago Institute of Politics (IOP) as one of six students selected to develop an original survey for young adults, aged 18-40, ahead of the 2024 Presidential election to examine their political, social, and cultural experiences. He returned to Chicago to present the results at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in front of media members from the New York Times, Chicago Sun Times, and WBEZ Chicago. On campus, Max has held several leadership roles as Political Chair of Pan Africanism of the African and Caribbean Student Association, Leadership and Development Coordinator of the IOP Leaders of Color program, and Editor of the Politics and Economic section of a black student-led newspaper titled, The Independence. After graduation, Max aims to attend a postdoctoral political science program to research further the emergence of artificial intelligence in the criminal justice system and how social science principles can be applied to mitigate its potentially harmful effects.