Tessina Grant Moloney, MS in Information Technology Management
Ph.D. Researcher in AI Ethics
Tessina Grant Moloney
PhD Researcher in AI Ethics & Cyborg Anthropology
GCAS College Dublin - The Global Centre for Advanced Studies
Madrid, Spain | Atlanta, GA
Biography
Tessina Grant Moloney is an AI researcher with a background in communications, finance, analytics, and project management. She holds a Master of Science in Information Technology Management from Western Governors University and a BBA from the University of Technology, Jamaica.
Her interest in AI safety began in 2016 when Microsoft’s chatbot went rogue on Twitter, causing the company to shut it down in just 24 hours. The following year, Facebook also caught her attention when its experimental chatbots created an intelligible variation of English for more efficient negotiations.
However, it was February 2022 before Tessina began her AI journey in earnest. Her curiosity about the threat of generative AI to the marketing and communications industry led to her testing Jasper AI and reporting its bugs. This experience brought her to Google’s Project Magi as an AI moderator, where she helped train the data sets behind Google's Gemini, AI Overview, and NotebookLM.
After a year of working on Google's LLMs, she also consulted as a product manager at an AI startup. Now she primarily focuses on AI research and responsible AI initiatives.
Research Interests:
Human-centered artificial intelligence
LLM [mis]alignment
Cyborg anthropology
Responsible AI
Cybersocial risks of malicious deepfake use
Individual agency in AI resistance models
Critical AI
Selected Activities
Contributor, GCAS Paris Seminar (2025)
Co-founder, resist[AI]nce Book Club at GCAS (2025)
Research Supervisor Creston Davis, Ph.D.
Outside GCAS
When not buried in research, Tessina spends her time exploring the great doors with her adventure cat, Shadow. The pair lived in three countries together and spent four years traveling via caravan across the United States and Mexico. When the weather betrays her, Tessina spends her time indoors writing often, eating well, painting horribly, and taking orders from Shadow.