Izzy Gainsburg

Izzy Gainsburg is a social psychologist and Associate Director of Stanford's Politics and Social Change Lab (PaSCL) and AI for Public Benefit Lab. He helps lead the lab’s research program, cultivate partnerships with government and civil-society organizations, translate findings for practitioners and the public, and chart PaSCL’s strategic direction. His scholarship clusters around three threads: persuasion and intervention design (with a side of AI); compassion, moral concern, and altruism; and meta-science and field-building.