Professor Carissa Véliz
Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy
Associate Professor in Philosophy
Carissa is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics in AI, and a Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Hertford College.
Carissa completed her DPhil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. She was then a Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford. To find out more about Carissa’s work, visit her website: www.carissaveliz.com
Undergraduate teaching
Carissa teaches Moral Philosophy (for first year PPE and PML), Ethics and Philosophy of Mind (for upper-year Philosophy students), as well as AI Ethics.
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Research interests
Carissa’s research focuses on the ethics of technology (especially privacy and AI ethics), moral and political philosophy more generally, and public policy. She is the author of Privacy Is Power (Transworld 2020, an Economist book of the year), and The Ethics of Privacy and Surveillance (Oxford University Press, 2024), as well as the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics (2023).
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Publications
To access most of these publications and others, visit: https://philpeople.org/profiles/carissa-veliz
Books
- Privacy Is Power (Bantam Press, Penguin Random House 2020, Melville House 2021). An Economist book of the year, 2020. Translations: Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Hungarian.
- The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics (Edited book, Oxford University Press, 2023). The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics is a lively and authoritative guide to ethical issues related to digital technologies, with a special emphasis on AI. Philosophers with a wide range of expertise cover 37 topics, including: the right to have access to the internet, trolling and online shaming, speech on social media, fake news, sex robots and dating online, persuasive technology, value alignment, algorithmic bias, predictive policing, price discrimination online, medical AI, privacy and surveillance, automating democracy, the future of work, and AI and existential risk. Each chapter offers a rigorous map of the ethical terrain, engaging critically with the most notable work in the area, and identifying directions for future research.
- Privacy (co-edited book with Steven Cahn, Wylie 2023); it is a compendium of some of the more important philosophical papers on privacy.
- The Ethics of Privacy and Surveillance. (Oxford University Press 2024). A comprehensive philosophical theory of privacy.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
- Finch, M., Older, M., Véliz, C., Lux, A., “The Art of Strategic Conversation: Surveillance, AI, and the IMAJINE Scenarios,” 2023, Surveillance & Society, 21:3, 236-245.
- Véliz, C, “Chatbots Shouldn’t Use Emojis,” 2023, Nature 615, 375.
- Buckland, L., Lindauer, M., Rodríguez-Arias, D., and Carissa Véliz, “Testing the Motivational Strength of Positive and Negative Duty Arguments Regarding Global Poverty,” 2022, Review of Philosophy and Psychology 13, 699-717.
- Véliz, C., “On Self-Presentation, Privacy, and Evil Online,” 2022, Journal of Practical Ethics, 9(2), 30-43.
- Véliz, C. “Moral Zombies. Why Algorithms Are Not Moral Agents,” 2021, AI and Society 36(2), 487-497.
- Véliz, C. “Should We Test AI the Way the FDA Tests Medicines?”, 2021, Harvard Business Review, https://hbr.org/2021/06/we-should-test-ai-the-way-the-fda-tests-medicines
- Véliz, C., Carina Prunkl, Milo Phillips-Brown, and Ted Lechterman, “We Might Be Afraid of Black-Box Algorithms”, 2021, Journal of Medical Ethics 47(5), 339-340.
- Véliz, C., “Privacy and Digital Ethics after the Pandemic,” 2021, Nature Electronics, 4, 10-11.
- Véliz, C., “Not the Doctor’s Business: Privacy, Personal Responsibility, and Data Collection Minimisation in Medical Settings,” 2020, Bioethics 34 (7), 712-718.
- Véliz, C., H. Maslen, M. Essman, L.S. Taillie, and J. Savulescu, “Sugar, Taxes, and Choice,” 2019, Hastings Center Report 49(6), 22-31.
- Véliz, C., “Three Things Digital Ethics Can Learn From Medical Ethics,” 2019, Nature Electronics 2, 316-318.
- Véliz, C., “Online Masquerade: Redesigning the Internet for Free Speech,” 2019, Journal of Applied Philosophy 36 (4), 643-658.
- Diéguez, A., and Carissa Véliz, “Would Moral Enhancement Limit Freedom?” 2019, Topoi 38(1), 29-36.
- Véliz, C., “What if Banks Were the Main Protectors of Consumers” Private Data?” 2018. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2018/11/what-if-banks-were-the-main-protectors-of-customers-private-data#
- Véliz, C., and Philipp Grunewald, “Protecting Data Privacy is Key to a Smart Energy Future,” 2018, Nature Energy 3, 702-704.
- Rodríguez-Arias, D., and Carissa Véliz, “The Death Debates: A Call for Public Deliberation,” 2013, Hastings Center Report 43(6), 34-35.
- Véliz, C., “Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? Rethinking Causal Directions Between Neural Mechanisms, Agency, and Human Enhancement,” 2011, American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 2(3), 46-48.
Book Chapters
- Veliz, C., “Losing Skills” in Edmonds, D. (ed.), AI Morality, 2024, Oxford University Press.
- Véliz, C. “Governing Privacy” in Bullock, J., Chen, Y., Himmelreich, J., Hudson, V.M., Korinek, A., Young, M., and Zhang, B. (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the Governance of AI, 2024, Oxford University Press.
- Véliz, C. “The Future of Privacy” in Edmonds, D. (ed.), Future Morality, 2021, Oxford University Press.
- Véliz, C., “Medical Privacy and Big Data: A Further Reason in Favour of Public Universal Healthcare Coverage” in Phillips, A., Herring, J., and De Campos, T. (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Medical Law, 2019, Oxford University Press, 306-319.
- Véliz, C., “The Internet and Privacy” in Edmonds, D. (ed.), Ethics and the Contemporary World, 2019, Routledge, 149-158.
- Véliz, C., “In the Privacy of Our Streets” in Newell, B.C., T. Timan, and B. Koops (eds.) Surveillance, Privacy, and Public Space, 2018, Routledge, 16-32.
- Véliz, C., “Selves, Subjects, and Persons,” in Sullivan, I., and C. Scheopner (eds.) Cross Currents: Comparative Responses to Global Interdependence, 2013, Cambridge Scholars Press, 143-153.
Policy Reports
- Véliz, C. Data, Privacy, and the Individual. Madrid: Center for the Governance of Change, IE University, 2020.
- Brooke, S., and Carissa Véliz. Views on Privacy. A Survey. Madrid: Center for the Governance of Change, IE University, 2020.