She is interested in global strategic technology planning, particularly in East Asia and its impact on developing regions, and the digital humanities. Prior to joining Keio, Danit was a Yenching Scholar at Peking University and international strategic advisor to the iCenter at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Danit chairs the P7009 IEEE standard on the Fail-Safe Design of Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Systems. She also chairs the Outreach Committee of The IEEE Global Initiative on the Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. Among her current projects is a study of the unanticipated consequences of AI under the Association of Pacific Rim Universities – Google research project “AI for Everyone: Building Trust in and Benefiting from the Technology.”