Ben Moskowitz

Benjamin’s current research focuses on how AI systems are reshaping markets, institutions, and everyday decision-making, with a particular emphasis on agentic commerce and consumer protection. His work centers on the design of loyal agents—AI systems explicitly aligned with the interests, rights, and intent of the people they serve. He studies how these agents mediate choice, power, and competition, and how technical and governance frameworks can preserve consumer agency, transparency, and accountability as AI-mediated markets scale. Drawing on practice from deployed products, his research explores trust signals, data rights, and open standards as public-interest infrastructure. Ben’s research also explores the emergence of AI as external cognitive support or choicemaking tools, how these tools are subtly shaping economic and civic life, and the implications for market design, regulation, and oversight.

Benjamin Moskowitz is a technology leader and public-interest innovator focused on building and shipping technology that delivers concrete improvements in people’s lives. He is Vice President of Innovation at Consumer Reports, where he leads multidisciplinary teams of engineers, product leaders, and researchers building AI- and data-rights technologies for consumer protection, including AskCR, an AI answer engine delivering independent consumer advice to millions of members, and Permission Slip, a data-rights enforcement service used by hundreds of thousands of people. Under his leadership, Consumer Reports was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies two years in a row.

Previously, Ben was a founding member of the International Rescue Committee’s Airbel Center, where he designed and scaled evidence-based solutions for refugees and displaced communities globally, and served in executive roles at Mozilla advancing an open and inclusive internet. Across his career, he has raised and operationalized over $175m in public and philanthropic funding and led teams that deliver complex software in production. A longtime New Yorker, Ben has taught technology and civic innovation at NYU and NYU Shanghai, and takes a pragmatic, delivery-first approach to building applied AI in the public interest.