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Dr. Eleanor Drage (University of Cambridge)This talk will cover a range of topics from the general human-technology relationship, how we perceive AI, the potential issues with the way the technology is used and some discussion on ways to mitigating such issues. Eleanor Drage started her career in financial technology before co-founding an e-commerce company. Now a Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, she maintains her strong interest in commercial concerns and opportunities in AI by working to bridge the gap between industry in academia in AI Ethics. She currently works for the Desirable Digitalisation project, for which she is creating playbooks, games and tools to help AI ethics designers and project managers be responsive to AI Ethics. She is also helping companies across Europe respond to the EU AI act, and previously explored what AI ethics currently means to AI engineers at a major tech multinational the size of Meta. Her advisory work in the AI Ethics space also includes the UN Data Science & Ethics Group's 'Applied Ethics Toolkit'. On this site you can learn more about her past and present projects, media appearances, and publications. Her other research investigates how AI relates to structural inequality, including systems of race and gender. Her work on AI-powered hiring tools has been published by Philosophy & Technology, and her research into how AI scientists are shown on-screen has been published by Public Understanding of Science and covered by media outlets like the BBC, Forbes, the Telegraph, and international news outlets. She has an international dual degree PhD from the University of Bologna and the University of Granada, where she was an Early Stage Researcher for the EU Horizon 2020 ETN-ITN-Marie Curie Project “GRACE” (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe). Her research focused on the complementarity of science fiction written by European women writers and contemporary queer, feminist and critical race theory. During that project, she made two short films about science fiction utopias and dystopias, and co-created a feminist quotation-generating App called 'Quotidian'.
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