Devi Sridhar
Devi Lalita Sridhar FRSE is an American public health researcher, who is both professor and chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her research considers the effectiveness of public health interventions and how to improve developmental assistance for health. Sridhar directs the University of Edinburgh's Global Health Governance Programme which she established in 2014.
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Sep 25, 2026
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The Edinburgh public health professor warned about the corrosive effects of AI on students' brains and said we must not entrust tech companies with our long-term health.
The Green left echoes Sridhar's critique of tech capital, framing AI's spread in education as a public health and democratic concern that markets cannot be trusted to manage.