Luciano Floridi
· Professor in the Practice in Cognitive ScienceYale University · Psychology
Active 1992–2026
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About
Luciano Floridi is a philosopher and the founding director of Yale’s Digital Ethics Center (DEC), where he leads a team of researchers studying the governance, ethical, legal, and social implications of digital innovation and technologies. He joined Yale from Oxford University and is a professor in the practice in the Cognitive Science Program in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Floridi's work predates the rise of major tech companies, as he contemplated the ethical and conceptual implications of the information age, producing work that addressed the benefits and risks of digital technology. Notably, he published a seminal paper in 1996 that foresaw issues related to internet disinformation. At Yale, Floridi's center aims to identify the benefits of digital innovations, enhance their positive impact, and mitigate associated risks by studying areas that are previously uncovered, unknown, and uncertain. His pioneering approach involves anticipating problems before they arise, informing policy, laws, and business strategies, and providing advice to governments, companies, and NGOs on digital ethics. Floridi has been influential in shaping AI governance, notably contributing to the European Union’s AI Act and developing auditing models to evaluate AI systems' safety and compliance. His research also covers emerging issues such as biometric privacy, brain implants, and the control of internet infrastructure, emphasizing the importance of philosophical inquiry in addressing the…
Research topics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Sociology
- Computer Science
- Political Science
- Cognitive science
- Medicine
- Philosophy
- Nursing
- Programming language
- Epistemology
Selected publications
Global Health in the Age of AI: Charting a Course for Ethical Implementation and Societal Benefit
Minds and Machines · 2025-07-02 · 4 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorA replica for our democracies? On using digital twins to enhance deliberative democracy
AI & Society · 2025-07-25 · 1 citations
articleSenior author2025-08-04 · 1 citations
otherSenior authorIn this chapter, we describe digital ethics as the branch of ethics that studies and evaluates moral problems related to data (including generation, recording, curation, processing, dissemination, sharing, and use), algorithms (including AI, artificial agents, machine learning, and robots), hardware and infrastructures, and corresponding practices (including responsible innovation, programming, hacking, and professional codes), in order to formulate and support morally good solutions (e.g. right…
Recommender systems as commercial speech: A framing for US legislation
Ethics and Information Technology · 2025-10-06 · 1 citations
articleSenior authorAI as legal persons: past, patterns, and prospects
Journal of Law and Society · 2025-10-11 · 1 citations
articleAbstract This article advances an explanatory model of the academic and policy debate on artificial intelligence (AI) systems as legal persons over time. It argues that the scientific and regulatory debate on such systems as legal persons undergoes periods of relative stability, interrupted by rapid paradigm shifts. Three interrelated factors primarily influence these oscillations: (1) competing theories of legal personhood (clustered versus singularist); (2) the capability, embodiment, and comm…
Frequent coauthors
- 539 shared
Mariarosaria Taddeo
- 219 shared
Josh Cowls
University of Oxford
- 159 shared
Jessica Morley
University of Oxford
- 125 shared
David Bawden
- 125 shared
Lyn Robinson
- 124 shared
Jonathan Furner
University of California, Los Angeles
- 124 shared
Dominic Dixon
University College Dublin
- 124 shared
Ken Herold
Adelphi University
Labs
Digital Ethics CenterPI
Education
- 1991
Ph.D., Philosophy
University of Bologna
- 1989
M.A., Philosophy
University of Bologna
- 1986
B.A., Philosophy
University of Bologna
Awards & honors
- Fischoff Grand Prize (2026)
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