Diana Acosta Navas, PhD

Assisstant Professor in Business Ethics, Loyola University Chicago

Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Center for Ethics in Society and Institute for Human-Centered AI, 2021-2023

Adjunct Lecturer in Ethics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, 2018-2020

PhD in Philosophy, Harvard University, 2021

Academic Publications

In Moderation: Automation in the Digital Public Sphere. Journal of Business Ethics, January 2025

AI and the Future of Digital Public Squares. Coauthors. Goldberg B. et. al. arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.09988, January 2025

On Foundations and Foundation Models.In: Ugazio and Maricic (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Philanthropy. Routledge. January 2025

Debates on AI Are Not Binary, They Are Plural. Coauthors: Luke Thorburn and Thorin Bristow. AAAI/ACM AIES Conference Proceedings, October 2024

Holistic Evaluation of Language Models. Coauthors. Liang et. al. Transactions on Machine Learning Research, August, 2023

Envisioning Communities: A Participatory Approach Towards AI for Social Good. Coauthors: Elizabeth Bondi, Lily Xu, Jackson A. Killian. Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. July 2021

Righting Wrongs and Wronging Rights: An Ethical Perspective on the Colombian Peace Accord. in Alejandro Linares (ed.), Constitutionalism: Old Dilemmas New Insights, Oxford University Press 2021

Free Speech and States of Emergency. in Fernandez, et al. (eds.), Ensayos sobre la pandemia. Special Edition Coleccion Varii Cives, Editorial ICESI, 2020

From Combatants Boots: Reintegration and Reconciliation in Colombia. Coauthor: Carlos-Felipe Reyes. In: Fabio Andres Diaz (ed.) Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Colombia. Routledge, 2018

The Search for Truth and the Dignity of Victims: Colombia, a Case Study. Harvard Human Rights Journal: Transitional justice in context, Online Symposium, 2017

Philosophy in the Spanish Speaking World. Coauthor: Patricia Marechal. Observatorio de la Lengua Espanola del Instituto Cervantes, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2014. ISSN 2373-874X

Metaphysical Aspects of Daniel C. Dennett's Intentional System Theory. CESO Notebook No. 157. Universidad de Los Andes. Bogota, 2009. ISSN 1657-4508

Popular Press

What is Democratic About Democratizing AI? (Coauthors: Rob Reich et. al.) The New Paradigm. April 18, 2024

Ethical and Societal Challenges: The Frontier of AI. El Espectador. December 23, 2023

Homage to Jineth Bedoya. Ambito Juridico. March 8, 2022

Dialogue (Coauthor: Nicolas Parra-Herrera), El Espectador (op-ed), July 14, 2021

Peace in Colombia: an unstoppable train. (Coauthor: Gabriel Cifuentes) El Espectador (op-ed) November 20, 2020

There are Alternatives to Religion: Interview with Daniel C. Dennett. Revista Semana, October 21, 2007

Work in Progress

Agentic Paternalism: The Ethics of Augmentation

The Variegated Marketplace of Ideas: The Complicated Plural Ethics of Free Speech (Coauthored with Abraham Singer)

How to Work With Real Humans in Human-AI Systems (Coauthored with Daniell Hu, et. al.)

Two Concepts of Machine Learning Legitimacy. Coauthor: Henrik Kugelberg. Under Review

Testimony, Standing, and Accountability: An Account of the Moral Significance of Truth Commissions. Under Review

The Imperative of Peace (Coauthored with Santiago Sosa). [Under Review, Journal of Business Ethics]

Bridging Over Troubled Waters: The Ethics of Bridging Algorithms in Divided Societies.

Rogue Actors and Bulls**r Bots: The Challenges of Generative AI for Public Discourse (Coauthored with Abraham Singer)

Selected Grants and Fellowships

Summer Research Grant, Loyola University Chicago, 2025

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023 (Declined)

Ethics, Technology, and Society Hub Grant, Stanford University, 2021

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University, 2021-2023

Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard GSAS, 2020-2021

Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Georgetown Ethics Lab 2020 (Declined)

Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Toronto Centre for Ethics, 2020 (Declined)

Summer Research Award, Harvard Graduate Student Council, 2020

Philosophy Department Fellowship, Harvard Philosophy Department 2017-2018

Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Graduate Fellowship, Harvard University, 2017-2018

Public Engagements

Panel: An ethical and inclusive Artificial Intelligence empowered by Philanthropy. Artificial Intelligence and Philanthropy Conference, University of Geneva, 14-15 March, 2024

Panel Chair: AI Tools for Tackling Misinformation. Global AI: Reframing the Conversation. Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, April 13, 2023

Encoding Human Values. Stanford University CS221, 2023

Embedded Ethics Conference. Stanford University, March 7, 2023

Introduction to Tanner Lecture by Seth Lazar and Arvind Narayanan. Stanford University, January 26, 2023

El Tiempo en Vivo: Como construir memoria para dignificar? Homenaje a Jineth Bedoya, Boston University, December 17, 2021

Razonamiento Etico para la Innovacion Tencologica. Universidad de Los Andes, November 24, 2021

A los Cuatro Agnos de la Firma de los Acuerdos de Paz. Universidad del Norte, Colombia, November 10, 2020

Colombian Wonder Women. MIT Media Lab. Cambridge, Mach 19, 2019

XIII Encuentro de la Jurisdiccion Constitucional. Corte Constitucional de Colombia, Bogota, January 21, 2019

Opening Remarks: Harvard-MIT Colombian Conference. Harvard University, April 18, 2018

Selected Convenings

Workshop on Navigating the Ethics of Human-AI Collaboration. IDEAL, Quinlan School of Business, November 20, 2024

Beyond Moderation: How can We Use Technology to De-Escalate Political Conflict? Stanford University, November 10, 2023

Embedded EthiCS Conference on Strategies for Teaching Responsible Computing. McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society and Institute for Human-Centered AI, March 2023

A los Cuatro Agnos del Acuerdo de Paz. Carr Center for Human Rights-Universidad del Norte, November 10-11, 2020

Faculty Consultation on Transitional Justice. Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University. April 12, 2019

Belonging: The Challenges of Reentry. Conference on Philosophy and Mass Incarceration. Harvard University, September 29, 2018

Colombia 2040: V Harvard-MIT Colombian Conference. Harvard University, April 18, 2018

IV Harvard-MIT Colombian Conference. Harvard University, April 2016

Quotes

Colombia debate su futuro frente a la inteligencia artificial. El Pais, January 17, 2024

Beyond Moderation: Exploring Tech Strategies to De-Escalate Political Conflict. McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, Stanford University, December 13, 2023

Beyond Content Moderation. Medium, November 10, 2023

El Gobierno prepara hoja de ruta de inteligencia artificial. Incluira la etica? El Espectador, September 21, 2023

Embedded Ethics Conference Mozilla Foundation, April 12, 2023

Restoring Dignity to Victims of Sexual Violence in Colombia. McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, Stanford University, April 22, 2022

El Tiempo en Vivo: Como construir memoria para dignificar? Homenaje a Jineth Bedoya, Boston University, December 17, 2021

Oposicion del Gobierno: principal reto de la justicia transicional segun reporte de la Universidad de Harvard. Revista Semana, November 10, 2020

4 agnos del Acuerdo Final de Paz con Farc y Sistema de Justicia TransicionalEl Heraldo, November 10, 2020

Trailblazing initiative marries ethics and tech. The Harvard Gazette, 2019

Philosophy Department Holds Conference on Incarceration and Reentry. The Harvard Crimson, October 1, 2018

Asi fueron los primeros dias de Juan Manuel Santos en Harvard. Revista Semana, October 20, 2018

Estudiar en Harvard no es un Suegno Imposible. Revista Semana, September 22, 2018

Acosta Navas Publishes in Harvard Human Rights Journal. Harvard Philosophy Department, October 5, 2017

Others

Stanford Embedded Ethics

Embedded EthiCS@Harvard