Scientific Committee

Luciano Floridi

Founding Director of the Yale Center for Digital Ethics, Professor of Cognitive Science, Yale University Founding Director of the Yale Center for Digital Ethics, Professor of Cognitive Science at Yale, and Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at Bologna University. He is world-renowned as one of the most authoritative voices of contemporary philosophy, the founder of the philosophy of information, and one of the major interpreters of the digital revolution. His more than 300 publications about the philosophy of information, digital ethics, the ethics of AI, and the philosophy of technology have been translated into many languages. In 2022 he was made Knight of the Grand Cross OMRI for his foundational work in philosophy.

Angie Abdilla

Is a palawa woman. She is the founder and director of Old Ways, New and works with Indigenous nowledges and systems in the creation of technology. Angie is a Professor at the Australian National University’s School of Cybernetics and co-founded the Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence working group (IP//AI). She is a member of the Scientific Council of the Association of AI Ethicists (AAIE), CSIRO Data61 Advisory Group, the National AI Centre Think Tank, and has been a member of the Global Futures Council on Artificial Intelligence for Humanity as part of the World Economic Forum in 2022.

Benjamin Rosman

is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, where he runs the Robotics, Autonomous Intelligence and Learning (RAIL) Laboratory and is the Director of the National E-Science Postgraduate Teaching and Training Platform (NEPTTP). He is also a founder of Lelapa AI, building AI for Africans, by Africans. He received his Ph.D. in Informatics in 2014, and previously obtained his M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence, both from the University of Edinburgh. He also has a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Applied Mathematics, both from the University of the Witwatersrand. His research interests focus primarily on reinforcement learning and decision making in autonomous systems. He is a founder and organiser of the Deep Learning Indaba machine learning summer school, with a focus on strengthening African machine learning, which now has satellite events in over 35 African countries. He was made a 2022 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, in Learning in Machines and Brains, and was a 2017 recipient of a Google Faculty Research Award in machine learning. In 2020, he was made a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Rupa Singh

Is founder and CEO of AI-Beehive, AI Ethicist, Author of the Book ‘AI Ethics with Buddhist Perspective’, Top 20 Global AI Ethics Leader, Key Note Speaker, Machine Learning and Generative AI specialist, A Thought Leader, Design Thinker, a Writer, and an Artist. Rupa is on the mission to empower 100,000+ people build AI for Human Dignity. She want to equip individuals with the knowledge and skills to navigate the complex world of AI, ensuring that technology serves as a force for good.

Luciano Floridi

Founding Director of the Yale Center for Digital Ethics, Professor of Cognitive Science, Yale University Founding Director of the Yale Center for Digital Ethics, Professor of Cognitive Science at Yale, and Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at Bologna University. He is world-renowned as one of the most authoritative voices of contemporary philosophy, the founder of the philosophy of information, and one of the major interpreters of the digital revolution. His more than 300 publications about the philosophy of information, digital ethics, the ethics of AI, and the philosophy of technology have been translated into many languages. In 2022 he was made Knight of the Grand Cross OMRI for his foundational work in philosophy.

Rupa Singh

Is founder and CEO of AI-Beehive, AI Ethicist, Author of the Book ‘AI Ethics with Buddhist Perspective’, Top 20 Global AI Ethics Leader, Key Note Speaker, Machine Learning and Generative AI specialist, A Thought Leader, Design Thinker, a Writer, and an Artist. Rupa is on the mission to empower 100,000+ people build AI for Human Dignity. She want to equip individuals with the knowledge and skills to navigate the complex world of AI, ensuring that technology serves as a force for good.

Benjamin Rosman

is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, where he runs the Robotics, Autonomous Intelligence and Learning (RAIL) Laboratory and is the Director of the National E-Science Postgraduate Teaching and Training Platform (NEPTTP). He is also a founder of Lelapa AI, building AI for Africans, by Africans.

He received his Ph.D. in Informatics in 2014, and previously obtained his M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence, both from the University of Edinburgh. He also has a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Applied Mathematics, both from the University of the Witwatersrand. His research interests focus primarily on reinforcement learning and decision making in autonomous systems.

He is a founder and organiser of the Deep Learning Indaba machine learning summer school, with a focus on strengthening African machine learning, which now has satellite events in over 35 African countries. He was made a 2022 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, in Learning in Machines and Brains, and was a 2017 recipient of a Google Faculty Research Award in machine learning. In 2020, he was made a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Mariarosaria Taddeo

is Professor of Digital Ethics and Defence Technologies at the University of Oxford, where she leads several projects on the ethics of digital technologies and artificial intelligence. Her work includes the ethical challenges of the use of AI for national defense, socially good uses of AI, and how AI can advance the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. She is an internationally renowned speaker, she has given talks on trust in digital technologies, AI ethics, the use of AI for national defence, the ethics of cybersecurity, and cyber deterrence.

Angie Abdilla

Is a palawa woman. She is the founder and director of Old Ways, New and works with Indigenous nowledges and systems in the creation of technology. Angie is a Professor at the Australian National University’s School of Cybernetics and co-founded the Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence working group (IP//AI). She is a member of the Scientific Council of the Association of AI Ethicists (AAIE), CSIRO Data61 Advisory Group, the National AI Centre Think Tank, and has been a member of the Global Futures Council on Artificial Intelligence for Humanity as part of the World Economic Forum in 2022.
Other members of the Scientific Committee will be announced throughout September 2023.