Giada Pistilli
Principal Ethicist at Hugging Face | Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy at Sorbonne Université

I am a researcher in philosophy, specializing in ethics applied to Conversational Artificial Intelligence. My research mainly focuses on comparative ethical frameworks, value theory, and ethics applied to Machine Learning (Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models).
After obtaining a master’s degree in ethics and political philosophy at Sorbonne Université in 2019, I pursued my doctoral research in the same faculty, joining the Sorbonne Université - CNRS mixed unit laboratory “Sciences, Normes, Democratie”.
I am currently Principal Ethicist at Hugging Face, doing philosophical and interdisciplinary research on AI Ethics. Read more about my typical workday in my Business Insider profile.
Additionally, my academic and professional experiences include policy and international relations, notably highlighted by a role at the European Parliament in Brussels, where I focused on human rights.
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Research Affiliate at Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory lab.
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Co-chair of the Ethical and Legal Scholarship working group of the BigScience open science project, that developed and deployed the Multilingual Large Language Model BLOOM.
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Co-editor with Michel Puech of the special issue “Technology and Constructive Critical Thought” for the peer-reviewed journal Giornale di Filosofia.
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Co-editor with Julien De Sanctis of the special issue “For an Ethics of the Human-Machine Interaction” for the peer-reviewed journal Implications Philosophiques.