Mariarosaria Taddeo
Mariarosaria Taddeo is a senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford, and deputy director of the Digital Ethics Lab. Taddeo is also an associate scholar at Said Business School, University of Oxford. Education. Taddeo holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Padua. Prior to joining the Oxford Internet Institute, she was research fellow in cybersecurity and ethics at the University of Warwick (2014). She has also held a Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Hertfordshire, exploring information warfare and its ethical implications. Career. Taddeo is the principal investigator  on projects relating to ethics, digital technologies and artificial intelligence (AI), in particular the ethical challenges of the use of AI for national defence, socially good uses of AI, and how AI can advance the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. She is also a Defence, Security and Technology Dtsl Ethics Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. In her work at the Turing Institute, she is the Principal Investigator for a two-year project focusing on the ethical implications of the use of data science and AI for national security and defence. Taddeo is also a member of the Exploratory  Team on Operational Ethics, part of the Human Factors and Medicine (HFM) panel of the NATO Science and Technology Organisation. Recognition. In 2018, ORBIT listed Taddeo among the top 100 experts working on AI in the world. In 2013 she was awarded the World Technology Award for Ethics, acknowledging her research on the ethics of cyber conflicts. In 2010 she received The Simon Awards for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy. Published works. Taddeo has published two books. Taddeo's research work co-authored with Professor Luciano Floridi on ethics and cyberwarfare, exploring the need for the regulation of artificial  intelligence and cybersecurity has been published in "Nature" Her work on data philanthropy and individual rights was published in "Minds and Machines", and work on the ethics of online service providers has been published in Science and Engineering Ethics. Taddeo has also published research into cyber conflicts and political paper, published by "Minds and Machines". Other notable work on AI and security includes her paper published in "Nature Machine Intelligence", co-authored with Tom McCutcheon and Luciano Floridi, describing the risks of trusting AI for national security and defence. The paper makes recommendations for how AI can be part of  the solution for a less risky approach. Taddeo's and her co-authors body of work has been presented at the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Security and Defence. Media. Taddeo has been quoted in the media providing expert comment on ethics, AI and cybersecurity, with recent articles by the Financial Times talking about bias in AI and the Guardian interviewed on the need for public services to exercise care when using chatbots. She has also been interviewed by news channels, giving her opinions on AI and cyberwarfare, such as appearing as a guest on Al Jazeera programme, Inside Story