About CaliberAI

Founded by Conor Brady, former Editor of The Irish Times, and Neil Brady, a former journalist with social media agency Storyful and The Guardian, CaliberAI is a unique team of editors, developers, lawyers, linguists and computer scientists, dedicated to building technologies that make digital publishing a safer, more accountable process for all.

We aim to reduce risks to publishers and others by helping to counter potentially defamatory and harmful content, through the use of Artificial Intelligence systems built to the highest ethical standards. Publish with diligence.

The CaliberAI Team

Neil Brady, CEO & Co-Founder

Neil Brady is a journalist and academic researcher. He previously worked as Digital Policy Analyst with the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA). Prior to this, he worked for The Guardian and social media agency Storyful. He holds an MA in Political Science from University College Dublin and an MBS in Management & Organisation from the Smurfit Business School.

Conor Brady, Chair & Co-Founder

Conor Brady is a journalist, novelist and academic. He was Editor, The Irish Times between 1986 and 2002, and Chair, World Editors Forum between 1996 and 2002. He was a Commissioner with policing oversight authority, GSOC, from 2005 - 2011. He has held appointments on a number of state boards and is currently Chair of Ireland’s Top Level Appointments Commission (TLAC). In 2020, he was appointed Honorary Professor of Journalism at NUI Galway.

Paul Watson, Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Paul Watson is a web developer and digital engineering leader. He co-founded and was CTO of Kinzen, a provider of personalisation services and tools for publishers to engage with readers. Prior to this Paul was CTO of Storyful and co-founded FeedHenry out of the Waterford Institute of Technology. Paul has been a professional programmer since 1997.

Hilary White, Data Annotation Strategist

Hilary White is a writer, journalist and editor based in Dublin, Ireland. He has been a weekly contributor to Irish national broadsheets including The Irish Independent, The Sunday Independent, The Irish Times and The Irish Examiner, for more than a decade, covering areas such as arts, culture, travel, and the environment. He has also worked as an editor for a range of publications, from freesheets and broadsheets to glossy magazines, international journals, and bestselling books. He is a regular guest contributor on RTE Radio, Newstalk, and Today FM.

Advisory Panel

Onora O'Neill

Baroness Onora O’Neill is a philosopher, ethicist and crossbench member of The House of Lords. She was Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, 1992 - 2006; President, the British Academy, 2005 - 2009; Chair, the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2012-16. She lectures and writes on justice and ethics, accountability and trust and the ethics of communication. She has been awarded the Kant Prize, the Holberg Prize and the Berggruen Prize.

Alan Rusbridger

Alan Rusbridger is a journalist and academic. He was Editor in Chief of the Guardian between 1995 and 2015. In 2014, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "building a global media organisation dedicated to responsible journalism in the public interest, undaunted by the challenges of exposing corporate and government malpractices." He is currently Principal at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, as well as Chair of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. In 2020, he was announced as one of the first members of the Facebook Oversight Board.

Margaret Ward

Margaret E. Ward is an award-winning journalist, entrepreneur and broadcaster. She worked for The Irish Times, The Sunday Times and Newstalk radio, and is a recipient of the Law Society of Ireland’s Justice Media Award. Margaret is Founder and CEO of leadership development consultancy Clear Ink. In 2010, she founded not-for-profit Women on Air to address gender imbalance on radio and television. She is a member of the board of tourism body Fáilte Ireland and served on the board of Ireland's public service media RTÉ from 2015-2020.

Barry O’Sullivan

Barry O’Sullivan, based at University College Cork, is an award-winning academic working in artificial intelligence. He is the founding director of the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at UCC and the SFI Centre for Research Training in AI. He served as Vice Chair of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI. He is a Fellow and a past President of the European AI Association. He is also a Fellow and a member of the Executive Council of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Murhaf Hossari

Murhaf Hossari is Machine Learning Research Scientist at Nokia Bell Labs. Prior to this he was AI Solutions Architect with the ADAPT Centre at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and Language Software Localisation Engineer at Apple Inc. His main interest and expertise is Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Deep Learning.

Eoin O’Dell

Eoin O’Dell is a Fellow and Associate Professor at the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin. Professor O’Dell is a specialist in freedom of expression and data protection, and is a member of the Irish Data Protection Forum. He regularly blogs on data protection matters at cearta.ie.