Dr. Mark Gaffley is an admitted attorney with over 13 years of start-up, in-house legal, and research experience gained through leading local and international organizations, including Uber, Takealot, Media24, the HSRC, simple. Capital(), and the Global Center on AI Governance (GCG). From 2019 - 2024, Mark ran his own legal and research consultancy, .athinktank, which undertook law-focused artificial intelligence research and advisory projects for a number of the forenamed organizations. He holds degrees in Arts, Law, and a PhD in Jurisprudence, all from the University of Cape Town (UCT). His research focuses on the moral implications of artificial intelligence, particularly its effect on human autonomy and independent decision-making. Mark currently holds positions as Director: Legal & Operations at GCG, Legal Consultant to Simple Capital, Honorary Senior Lecturer in the IF Gene RA Group, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UCT, and Visiting Research Fellow, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, WITS