Juliana Castro Varón
Short, third-person bio: Juliana Castro Varón is a designer, doodler and technologist. She’s the senior design editor of AI Initiatives at the New York Times, the founder of the open access publisher Cita Press, and an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Juliana’s the author of Papel sensible. Her cartoons appear in The New Yorker and in tiny dirty napkins around the world.
I’m the senior design editor of artificial intelligence initiatives at the New York Times. My team creates tools to semantically search multimedia content, organize unstructured information or analyze large data sets for trends that are hard to parse through. I make software for storytellers and readers. Because of that, my work often involves talking to creative people about their process, and learning how technology can (and cannot) help them. I also produce visual stories, mostly about AI and creativity.
I get (and in many cases share) people's skepticism about AI, and it’s part of my job to understand and account for its limitations and biases. I’m curious about how humans relate to technology.