Carissa Véliz is a Mexican, Spanish, and British

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. She is an associate professor of

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and ethics at the University of Oxford (Institute for Ethics in AI, Faculty of Philosophy).

Life and career

Carissa Véliz studied a Bachelor's degree in

Philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

at the University of Salamanca. Later she studied a master of arts (MA) in Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. She got a doctorate (PhD) in

from the University of Oxford, with the doctoral thesis "On Privacy", which concerns the ethics and political philosophy of privacy. She is an Associate Professor of

and ethics at the University of Oxford (Institute for Ethics in AI, Faculty of Philosophy), and a Fellow at Hertford College. Her work and area of specialisation is ethics of artificial intelligence (AI Ethics), applied philosophy, ethics,

moral philosophy Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that "involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior".''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' The field of ethics, along with aesthetics, concerns ma ...

, political philosophy and practical ethics. In 2020 she published her first book, "''Privacy Is Power''", about the ethics and political philosophy surrounding privacy. It became an ''Economist'' Book of the Year

Work

* ''Privacy is Power'', 2020.

References

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