Anna Neumann is a doctoral researcher at the Research Centre Trust (RC TRUST), UA Ruhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, working on the governance of AI systems. She is a member of the Compliant and Accountable Systems group led by Jat Singh, which spans RC TRUST and the University of Cambridge (Source: rc-trust.ai).
Research
Neumann's stated research areas are responsible AI, governance, transparency, and critical studies, applied to large language models (Source: annaneumann.carrd.co; scholar.google.com). The pairing of a critical-studies orientation with systems work reflects the group's interdisciplinary structure, which places computer science alongside law and social science rather than treating governance as a downstream compliance question.
Work
Neumann is lead author, with Holli Sargeant and Jatinder Singh, of "Prompt Governance? On Governing Technologies Governed by Natural Language" (FAccT'26), a systematic study of whether system-level instructions can function as reliable governance levers. Its subject — the system prompt treated as a governance object rather than a configuration detail — sits between the transparency and responsible-AI strands of her stated interests, since a prompt is both the mechanism by which a deployer constrains a model and a text that is usually undisclosed. See Prompt Governance.
Relationships
- related: Jatinder Singh — group lead and co-author
- related: Holli Sargeant — co-author
- related: Prompt Governance — the concept the paper develops
- authored: Prompt Governance? On Governing Technologies Governed by Natural Language