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. She is the author of the highly-acclaimed Privacy Is Power (an Economist book of the year, 2020) and the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics. She is a member of UNESCO’s Women 4 Ethical AI. She advises companies and policymakers around the world on privacy and the ethics of AI. She is a board member of the Proton Foundation, along with Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Proton’s CEO Andy Yen.
In an age dominated by the digital — we must learn to cherish the analogue aspects of our lives. She will challenges us to reflect on the role of technology, data, and privacy in shaping what it means to be human.
The Power of Analog becomes an invitation to rethink our relationship with technology — to protect the spaces where we are unobserved, unpredictable, and chaotically human.