Luciano Floridi
Luciano Floridi is a philosopher who researches information ethics, technology, and AI governance. He studied in Rome and Warwick, then built a long Oxford career and led the Digital Ethics Lab. He published a book about computing, contributed to a European Commission AI group, wrote about ChatGPT, and spoke at a Yale summit on state AI regulation. As of October 2026, he is founding director of Yale’s Digital Ethics Center and Professor in the Practice in Cognitive Science.
- Now at
- Yale University and University of Bologna
- Works
- 903
- Citations
- 57,881
- h-index
- 111
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.
Timeline
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1964–1991
Early study and teaching
Born in Rome in 1964, he earns a philosophy degree at La Sapienza in 1988, an MPhil in 1989, and a PhD at Warwick in 1990. He lectures in philosophy at Warwick from 1990 to 1991.
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1999
Philosophy and Computing
He publishes Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction in 1999, a book that examines the digital revolution, the Internet, artificial intelligence, and the future of computing.
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2009
Gauss and Barwise honours
He becomes the first philosopher elected Gauss Professor by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and receives the American Philosophical Association’s Barwise Prize for his research on philosophy of information.
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May 2013–July 2023
Oxford’s Digital Ethics Lab
He becomes OII Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information in May 2013 and serves through July 2023. He directs the Digital Ethics Lab from May 2017 to June 2021.
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July 2018
European Commission’s AI group
He contributes an ethical perspective on AI at a CEPS Task Force meeting in July 2018 as a member of the European Commission’s High Level Group on AI.
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2021–2022
Bologna professorship and an honour
The University of Bologna welcomes him as a professor in January 2021; he focuses on ethics, law, big data, AI, and social media. In 2022, Italian president Sergio Mattarella awards him the Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit.
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2023–2025
An AI editorial and policy summit
He publishes the 2023 editorial “AI as Agency Without Intelligence: On ChatGPT, Large Language Models, and Other Generative Models” in Philosophy & Technology. In May 2025, he speaks as Yale’s Digital Ethics Center director at a summit on state AI legislation.
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As of October 2026
Leading Yale’s Digital Ethics Center
He is founding director of the Digital Ethics Center and Professor in the Practice in the Cognitive Science Program at Yale.
Sources and credits
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- OII | Professor Luciano Floridi
- Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction - 1st Edition - Luciano Flor
- Second meeting of the CEPS Task Force on AI: key take-aways | Futurium
- Luciano Floridi professor at the University of Bologna — University of Bologna
- About the Director | Digital Ethics Center
- Yale’s Digital Ethics Center helps U.S. states navigate the promise and perils of AI | Yale News