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Overview: Sylvie Delacroix is the Inaugural Jeff Price Chair in Digital Law and the director of the Centre for data Futures (King’s College London). She is also a visiting professor at the University of Tohoku (Japan). Her research focuses on the role played by habit within ethical agency, the role of humility markers as conversation enablers and the potential inherent in LLMs’ participatory interfaces. She also considers bottom-up data empowerment structures and the social sustainability of the data ecosystem that makes generative AI possible. The latter work led to the first data trusts pilots worldwide being launched in 2022 in the context of the Data Trusts initiative www.datatrusts.uk. Her latest book Habitual Ethics? was published by Bloomsbury in 2022 (open-access).
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King’s College London News Centre, – February 7, 2025
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.
