Carissa Véliz: navigating LLM constraints in the pursuit of AI ethics
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Carissa Véliz is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI, and a Fellow at Hertford College at the University of Oxford. She is the recipient of the 2021 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy.
Our guest is the author of Prophecy, now longlisted for the Financial Times business book of the year (2026), as well as the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics. Her previous book, Privacy is Power, was chosen by The Economist as one of the best books of the year in 2020.
Carissa advises companies and policymakers around the world on privacy and the ethics of AI, and is a member of UNESCO’s Women 4 Ethical AI.
References:
* Breakfast Workshop - Santa Monica, CA - September 2, 2026 (free for MoP subscribers)
* Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI (Amazon)
* Carissa Véliz on Substack (The Antidote)
* Gary Marcus: Even more good news for the future of neurosymbolic AI (Substack, April 2026)
* Refresher (January 28th special, Masters of Privacy): Data Protection vs. Privacy and Data Privacy (with Carissa Véliz, Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna, Brendan Quinn, Tim Turner, and Markus Wünschelbaum)
* Carissa Véliz: privacy is power (Masters of Privacy ES, Oct 2021 - Spanish)
* Install the TODO.LAW suite on your own device (Dealroom, DPO Central, AI Sentinel).
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