About - Agents of Purpose

Kathy Pham

Founder

Kathy is the founder of Agents of Purpose, a leader at the intersection of technology and the public interest, and Harvard's Fellow at the Shorenstein Center and Faculty Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center. She helped stand up the White House U.S. Digital Service (and subsequently co-founded the U.S. Digital Service Origins), helped built the FTC's first Technology Office, advised the White House as a member of the National AI Advisory Committee, led AI and open technology at Workday, and built technology at Google and IBM. She pioneered responsible computing at Mozilla and Harvard, some of the earliest institutional efforts to explore the human consequences of technology. She founded and teaches Product Management and Society at Harvard. Her work, spanning government, non-profits, industry, and academia, and care-taking, drove her to one core question to help us build the foundation of our use of technology: "Should AI read bedtime stories to our kids?"

Human Agency and Purpose In This Era of AI

The Framework

On the horizon

Agents of Purpose

Agents of Purpose: Limited Podcast Series

Dialogues and Keynotes

Kathy Pham

For Partnerships, Speaking, Press

Capability	Agency	Purpose
What AI can do.	What we keep for ourselves.	Why any of it matters.