Virginia Dignum

Virginia Dignum is Professor at the Department of Computing Science at Umeå University, Sweden where she leads the research group Social and Ethical Artificial Intelligence. She is also associated with the Faculty Technology Policy and Management at the Delft University of Technology.

Professor Dignum's research focuses on the complex interconnections between people, organizations and technology. Her work spans from practical applications and simulations to formal theories integrating agency and organization. Her current research directions include Responsible artificial intelligence, analyzing moral and ethical issues arising from autonomous intelligent agents in teams, formalization of social interaction, and design and evaluation of human-agent teamwork.

• Member of the European Commission High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence
• Member of the IEEE Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous Systems
• Member of the Delft Design for Values Institute
• Member of the European Global Forum on AI (AI4People)
• Member of the Responsible Robotics Foundation
• Member of the Dutch AI Alliance (ALLAI-NL)
• Member of the ADA-AI foundation
• Member of GPAI (Global Partnership on AI)
• Member of the World Economic Forum Council on AI
• Member of the High-Level Expert Group on the Implementation of the UNESCO AI Ethics Recommendation

She is the Program Chair of AAMAS'24 (the 23nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems) and the Ethics Chair of AAAI'24 (the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence). Professor Dignum actively speaks on the social and ethical impact of AI at conferences and events worldwide.