Linda Eggert

• Year

  2023

• Program

  AI2050

• Institution

  University of Oxford

• Location

  UK

Dr Linda Eggert is an Early Career Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Her work spans issues in moral, political, and legal philosophy. Linda is especially interested in non-consequentialist ethics, the ethics of rescue and defensive harming, theories of justice, and, inescapably, the relationship between human rights, democracy, and the moral and political implications of AI. Before taking up her current post, Linda was an Interdisciplinary Ethics Fellow at the McCoy Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University, a Fellow-in-Residence at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, and a Technology and Human Rights Fellow with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Linda has also taught at Apple University. Through this fellowship, Linda will advance her project “The Ethics of Delegating to AI”, which seeks to help us better understand what, if anything, of moral significance is lost in eliminating human decision-makers in central areas of human activity, and what we owe to one another, including as citizens of liberal democracies, as AI is made increasingly more powerful and prevalent.