Mariarosaria Taddeo is Professor of Digital Ethics and Defence Technologies at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. She is a world leading philosopher working on Digital Ethics and the Governance of Digital Technologies in High-risk domains. She is also a Research Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute.
Her research focuses on the ethical, legal, social, and governance implications of digital technologies for national defence and security.
Mariarosaria Taddeo’s books and edited volumes have played a central role in shaping contemporary debates on digital ethics, artificial intelligence, and defence technologies.
Her work brings philosophical rigor to applied policy questions, bridging ethical theory, security practice, and governance in high-stakes technological domains.
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Defence:
"This is a groundbreaking work that brilliantly analyses the critical ethical challenges surrounding AI in defense. Mariasoraia Taddeo's masterful analysis, anchored in AI ethics and Just War Theory, provides an essential framework for navigating this complex landscape. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand and shape the future of AI in defense."
- Luciano Floridi, Founding Director, Digital Ethics Center, Yale University
Editor-in-chief of Minds and Machines. Minds and Machines is an international peer-reviewed journal at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Philosophy, and Cognitive Science. It fosters critical discussion and debate on the theoretical, ethical, and philosophical implications of intelligent machines, computation, and the nature of mind.
Editor-in-Chief for Philosophical Studies Series (SpringerNature). Philosophical Studies Series is a prestigious book series dedicated to publishing high-quality, specialized monographs and contributed volumes across the entire domain of Philosophy. It features academic work from leading experts globally.
A NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence Initiative
This book presents 12 essays that focus on the analysis of the problems prompted by cyber operations (COs). It clarifies and discusses the ethical and regulatory problems raised by the deployment of cyber capabilities by a state’s army to inflict disruption or damage to an adversary’s targets in or through cyberspace.
This volume focuses on the responsibilities of online service providers (OSPs) in contemporary societies. It examines the complexity and global dimensions of the rapidly evolving and serious challenges posed by the exponential development of Internet services and resources. It looks at the major actors – such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Yahoo! – and their significant influence on the informational environment and users’ interactions within it, as well as the responsibilities and liabilities such influence entails.
As digital technologies shape every aspect of today's society, ethical considerations have never been more pressing. In A Companion to Digital Ethics, editors Luciano Floridi and Mariarosaria Taddeo bring together leading experts to analyse key ethical challenges posed by artificial intelligence, privacy, cybersecurity, cyberwarfare, sustainability, digital consent, and many other topics.
This book offers an overview of the ethical problems posed by Information Warfare, and of the different approaches and methods used to solve them, in order to provide the reader with a better grasp of the ethical conundrums posed by this new form of warfare.
