
PETRAS: Internet of Things (IoT) Research Hub
The PETRAS IoT Research Hub is a consortium of 9 UK universities working together to explore critical issues in privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security.
Mariarosaria Taddeo is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow. She is also the Programme Director of the DPhil in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences at the Oxford Internet Institute. She is also a Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute.
Dr Taddeo is a philosopher working on the ethics of digital technologies. Her most recent work focuses on Digital ethics, spanning from Ethics of AI to Ethical analysis of Cybersecurity practices, Cyber Conflicts, and Ethics of Data Science. Her area of expertise is Philosophy and Ethics of Information, although she has published in areas like Epistemology, Logic, and Philosophy of AI.
Dr Taddeo’s work has been published in major research journals, like Nature, Nature Machine Intelligence, Science, and Science Robotics, Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society A. She has published extensively on online trust, ethics of cyber conflicts, cyber deterrence, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for national defence, and AI for social good. A complete list of her publications can be found on her Google Scholar profile.
Dr Taddeo is Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on a number of research project ranging from the ethical challenges of the use of AI for national defence, socially good uses of AI, AI to advance Sustainable Development Goals.
In 2018, ORBIT listed her among the 100 experts working on AI in world. In the same year, she has been listed among the top 50 most inspiring Italian women working in digital technologies. Dr Taddeo has been awarded The Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy; and the World Technology Award for Ethics acknowledging the originality and her research on the ethics of cyber conflicts, and the social impact of the work that she developed in this area.
Since 2016, Taddeo serves as editor-in-chief of Minds & Machines (SpringerNature), in the executive editorial board of Philosophy & Technology (SpringerNature).
Before joining the OII, Taddeo was Research Fellow in Cyber Security and Ethics at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick. From 2010 to 2012 she held a Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Hertfordshire, where she was working on information warfare and its ethical implications.
She holds a PhD (Doctor Europeus) in Philosophy from the University of Padua. Her PhD thesis focused on the epistemic and ethical implications of trust in artificial systems.
Mariarosaria Taddeo’s main research areas are Digital Ethics, Philosophy of Technology, Ethics of Cyber Conflicts and Cybersecurity.
The PETRAS IoT Research Hub is a consortium of 9 UK universities working together to explore critical issues in privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security.
This is an inter-divisional and multidisciplinary eight-month pilot study devoted to landscape the problem space and the future research on strategic cyber deterrence (SCD).
This project aims to analyse the new civic responsibilities of Online Service Providers, and the policies regulating them.
I serve as non-executive president of the board of directors of Noovle Spa, and I serve as an advisor to Clearbox AI.
I conduct my research in line with the University's academic integrity code of practice.
With Professor Mariarosaria Taddeo, and Andreas Tsamados
Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo is Senior Researcher Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and Deputy Director of the Digital Ethics Lab. She will discuss the use of AI and it's associated trust issues in national defence.
17 February 2023
In their new blog, Riccardo Ghioni, Mariarosaria Taddeo, Luciano Floridi, share their insights on the growth of OSINT and AI, and reflect on the opportunities and challenges for governments, defence and civilian organisations.
16 June 2022
Why we need philosophy and ethics of cyber warfare by digital ethics and defence expert Professor Mariarosaria Taddeo
23 March 2022
Experts from the University of Oxford and the University of Bologna launch 'capAI', a new approach to help businesses comply with future AI regulations in Europe.
3 December 2020
Four members of faculty at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) have been awarded the title of Associate Professor by the University of Oxford, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to research in the field of social sciences.
La Repubblica, 01 January 1970
ChatGpt, Dall-e and the others will impose themselves in our world, improving it. We just have to learn to control it. Here's how explains Mariarosaria Taddeo.
RAI, 16 January 2023
In her latest interview, Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo, Oxford Internet Institute speaks to Italian national broadcaster RAI about socia lmedia and digital ethics.
Rai1, 08 July 2022
The evolution of robotics has taken unexpected directions until a few years ago. In this programme, Dr MariaRosaria Taddeo shares her insights on AI, ethics and art.