Michael Serota is Associate Professor at Loyola Law School, the Director of the Criminal Justice Reform Lab, and a Senior Research Scholar with the Academy for Justice at Arizona State University. His research focuses on the role of the mind in criminal punishment and responsibility, as well as on the political and social forces that influence criminal policymaking. For the past five years, Professor Serota has served as the PI for the first-ever nationally representative study of public attitudes on mental states and punishment. He is also currently collaborating with two other members of the Agency, Intentions, and Artificial Intelligence Project on a study comparing how the public and large language models punish intention. Professor Serota advises state and federal legislatures, reform organizations, and media outlets on criminal justice reform, building on his experience working as the chief policy counsel for the only ground-up criminal code reform project to take place in the United States since the 1980s.