Dr Linda Eggert is an Early Career Fellow in Philosophy. Linda’s work spans topics in moral, political, and legal philosophy, and mainly addresses issues in normative and practical ethics and theories of justice. Linda is especially interested in duties to rescue and the ethics of other-defence, issues in non-consequentialist ethics, and global and rectificatory justice. Linda’s work also explores how these areas bear on the ethics of artificial intelligence and digital technology. Linda is particularly interested in the ethics of delegating to AI; in whether we have a moral right not to be subject to fully automated decision-making in certain contexts; in how human rights and democratic values should shape what technologies we create and deploy; and in the ethics of military applications of AI.
Before joining the Institute for Ethics in AI, Linda was an Interdisciplinary Ethics Fellow at the McCoy Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University, a Fellow-in-Residence with the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, and a Technology & Human Rights Fellow with Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. In 2023, Linda was appointed to an Associate Professorship of Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy, which she will take up in 2024. Linda completed her DPhil at Oxford in 2021.