Virginia Dignum

Associate Professor on Social Artificial Intelligence, Delft University of Technology at Delft University of Technology

Major works

V. Dignum: A Model for Organisational Interaction, Based on Agents, Founded on Logic. (2004), SIKS Dissertation series 2004-1, Utrecht University, 2004
V. Dignum (2017) “Responsible Autonomy”, Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2017. Pages 4698-4704. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/655
V. Dignum (to appear) Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Springer Research Briefs, Springer

About me

Virginia Dignum is Associate Professor on Social Artificial Intelligence at Delft University of Technology. Her research focuses on value-sensitive design of intelligent systems, in particular on the formalization of ethical and normative behaviors and social interactions. She received a Phd in 2004 from Utrecht University and was award a Veni award of excellence for starting researchers by the NWO in 2006. She is the Executive Director of the Delft Design for Values Institute, and Executive Committee member of IEEE Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous Systems, the European AI4People global forum and the Foundation for Responsible Robotics. Areas of expertise Societal and ethical impact of Artificial Intelligence Human-agent interaction Agent-based social simulation