Marianna Capasso
Marianna Capasso is a postdoctoral researcher in Philosophy & Ethics of Technology at the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, where she is the Lead of the Cross-Cultural AI Ethics Cluster at the Inclusive AI Lab.
Marianna's research expertise lies at the intersection of ethics of technology and political philosophy, with a special focus on philosophical issues of human freedom and responsibility with AI, Design for Values, Bias and Discrimination in AI, and AI and the Future of Work. In her cross-disciplinary research, Marianna investigates how to identify, define, and translate philosophical methods and conceptions into design requirements and actionable criteria for preserving human relevant values in the interaction with socio-technical systems that involve AI. On these topics, she has been invited to speak at a number of international conferences and workshops, and authored and co-authored peer-reviewed publications in edited volumes and international leading journals, such as Philosophy and Technology, Minds and Machines, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, International Journal of Social Robotics, AI & Society, Medicine Healthcare and Philosophy, Business and Human Rights Journal, and others. Over the last few years, Marianna has advised, guided, and consulted different stakeholders, such as researchers, industry partners; HR; public policy and administration actors; NGOs, and actively contributed to responsible research and innovation projects, such as Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.
Marianna is currently working on the EU-funded project FINDHR, where she explores the socio-ethical implications of intersectional discrimination in algorithmic hiring, and the responsible governance of synthetic data generation and use. Prior to joining Utrecht, Marianna was postdoctoral researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and postdoctoral researcher at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, where she obtained her PhD in Human Rights and Global Politics in 2022. During her PhD, she spent a period as a visiting researcher at the section Ethics/Philosophy of Technology of TU Delft. Marianna holds a MA in Philosophy from the University of Pisa, and an Honours Diploma in Philosophy from Scuola Normale Superiore. She is Italian and is based in The Netherlands.