I am deeply honoured to join Dartmouth College as a Montgomery Fellow. This Fellowship comes at a crucial moment, as we grapple with the need for ways of deploying AI that enhance (rather than compromise) human intelligence in all its multiple facets. In my public lecture 'Lost in conversation: uncertainty, value-alignment and LLMs,' I will address how our engagement with AI systems shapes moral discourse and our collective future. This is not just an academic concern – it affects us all. I look forward to engaging with Dartmouth's vibrant intellectual community while bringing insights from my work on the ethics of habit-forming technologies and moral AI.
Professor Sylvie Delacroix, Director of the Centre for Data Futures and Inaugural Jeff Price Chair in Digital Law
07 February 2025
Professor Sylvie Delacroix awarded prestigious Montgomery Fellowship at Dartmouth College
Professor Delacroix will join three other experts on the Montgomery Fellows Program whose work covers language, freedom of expression, and agency in relation to technological systems and AI.
This year’s Montgomery Fellows Program focuses on agency, speech, and ethics in the AI era, bringing together experts who have addressed technical, legal, cultural, and philosophical aspects of decision-making and computer-mediated communication.
Professor Sylvie Delacroix, Director of the Centre for Data Futures and Inaugural Jeff Price Chair in Digital Law, is a philosopher and legal theorist. Her work addresses the ethical, legal, and political dimensions of technology. She has published work on habit, an area of human life that she describes as "both nature and 'more than mere' nature." In addition to theorising digital ethics, she has also contributed to policy work on trust and transparency in relation to governmental use of data and the use of algorithms in criminal justice. Her work has had important implications for thinking about human ethical agency in the face of rapidly growing data archives and automated system.
The Centre for Data Futures is the first-ever dedicated academic centre of expertise to focus on designing and studying the effect of participatory infrastructure over the life of data-reliant tools. This is from the point of data generation, through data empowerment structures, all the way to interface design that incentivises long-term, collective participation.
Professor Delacroix will be spending two weeks in residence at Montgomery House in May. Find out more information about the Montgomery Fellows Program on their website.
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