Carissa Véliz is a Mexican, Spanish, and British philosopher. She is an associate professor of philosophy 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 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 Philosophy 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 philosophy 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, 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.