Carissa Véliz

I'm an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI, and a Fellow at Hertford College at the University of Oxford. I'm the recipient of the 2021 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy. I wrote Privacy Is Power (an Economist book of the year, 2020) and edited the Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics. My new book, Prophecy, about the uses and abuses of prediction, is coming out in April 2026. Roger McNamee, the tech investor, has said of it: "The most important book you will read for years." Historian Timothy Snyder has written of it: "This is the sort of philosophy we must have." And Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa wrote: "Read this before the algorithms decide you can’t!” I'm a member of UNESCO’s Women 4 Ethical AI, and EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center). I advise companies and policymakers around the world on privacy and the ethics of AI. I'm a board member of the Proton Foundation, along with Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Proton’s CEO Andy Yen.