Virginia Dignum
Professor
Director of AI Policy Lab, professor in Responsible Artificial Intelligence, member of the UN High Level Advisory Body on AI, senior advisor to the Wallenberg Foundations.
Virginia Dignum is Full Professor at Umeå University, Chair of the Social and Ethical Artificial Intelligence group. Her research focuses on value-sensitive design of intelligent systems and multi-agent organisations, in particular on the ethical and societal impact of AI. She is a Fellow of the European Artificial Intelligence Association (EURAI), a member of the European Commission High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, and of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous Systems. She is member of the scientific boards of the Delft Design for Values Institute, the AI4People - European Global Forum on AI, the Responsible Robotics Foundation, the SIDNfonds, and ALLAI-NL the Dutch AI Alliance. In 2006, she was awarded the prestigious Veni grant by the NWO (Dutch Organization for Scientific Research) for her work on agent-based organizational frameworks. She a well-known speaker on the social and ethical impacts of Artificial Intelligence, and is member of the reviewing boards for all major journals and conferences in AI.