Professor Simona Tiribelli

Professor Simona Tiribelli is the Director for AI Ethics at the Institute for Technology & Global Health (Boston, USA), AI policy research and innovation center founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, committed to the trustworthy development, deployment, and use of AI in public health domains, from education to medicine. In Italy, she is tenure track Professor in Ethics and teaches Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Global Justice & Technology at the University of Macerata, where she is key person in the Jean Monnet Chair Ethics for Inclusive Digital Europe, funded by the European Commission, and co-founder of the university spinoff and innovative startup GAIA for the ethical-legal assessment of AI solutions. She is former visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab (2020) and at the NYU Center for Bioethics at New York University (2023).

With a European PhD cum laude in AI Ethics (2021), her research in this field has been awarded several grants and awards, such as the prestigious FULBRIGHT scholarship and the IEEE Ethics best paper award and honorable mention from the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT). Since 2017, she has been an invited speaker and keynote at over 100 conferences in Europe, the US, and Canada (Harvard University, MIT, Tufts University, Oxford University, Toronto University, TUM, etc.), authored +40 articles in leading international scientific journals, such as, among others, Nature Digital Medicine, Ethics & Information Technology, AI & Society, Science & Engineering Ethics, and published two books Moral Freedom in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Mimesis International 2022) and Personal Identity and Algorithms: An Issue of Moral Philosophy (Carocci 2023).

She is associate editor for the Journal of Responsible Technology and currently appointed as AI ethics expert advisor for a high number of EU projects to ensure the development of trustworthy AI. She is responsible for Quantum AI Ethics in the project of great national interest ThAI-MIA “Trustworthy hybrid quantum-classical Artificial Intelligence for Medical Image Analysis”, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research; a senior member for AI ethics of the Quantum AI Lab at Luiss Guido Carli University; and she directed the ethical chapter of the AI for Outbreak group within the “AI for Health” program of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). She is also scientific advisor on responsible AI for companies, orgs, and venture labs in the field of AI in healthcare, education, and fintech in the EU and USA.