About Erica Stanford

Erica Stanford advises on AI ethics, risk, digital assets and digital crime at CMS in London in a non-legal advisory capacity. She speaks, writes and advises organisations internationally on AI risk controls, vulnerabilities and ethics; agentic AI and liability; digital-asset risk; and the intersection of AI with fraud, scams, digital harms, misinformation and disinformation, surveillance, deepfakes, digital crime and crypto-related crime, including how AI creates opportunities as well as operational, ethical and security risks. Her work also covers responsible AI adoption, strategy, governance frameworks, automated decision-making, autonomous systems, human oversight, assurance and implementation. She has written for Chambers, Oxford University Press and Edward Elgar, is a TEDx speaker and is the bestselling, award-winning author of Crypto Wars. She is completing an MSc in data and AI ethics at the University of Edinburgh.