Luciano Floridi
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Luciano Floridi is a philosopher whose work on digital ethics includes AI governance and the relationship between ethical principles and legal regulation. He is the founding director of Yale University's Digital Ethics Center and has co-authored research on the legal implications of generative AI in the European Union.[1][2]
Roles and affiliations
Yale identifies Floridi as Professor in the Practice in its Cognitive Science Program. Before joining Yale, he was Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the Oxford Internet Institute. His publications include The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities (2023). The legal focus of this profile is his work on governance and implementation rather than his philosophical bibliography as a whole.[1]
Contributions and positions
Generative AI and European law
With Claudio Novelli, Federico Casolari, Philipp Hacker and Giorgio Spedicato, Floridi co-authored Generative AI in EU Law. The paper considers liability, privacy, intellectual property and cybersecurity questions raised by large language models. It examines difficulties arising from the complexity and unpredictability of generative systems and assesses how legal frameworks could respond.[2]
The open manuscript was revised in March 2024 and discusses the AI Act draft alongside other existing or proposed rules. It is therefore a dated scholarly analysis, not a current statement of all enacted provisions or implementation deadlines. Its usefulness lies in identifying legal questions across several fields rather than treating generative AI as a problem confined to a single statute.[2]
Implementation and governance design
The Digital Ethics Center's publication list includes work co-authored by Floridi on conformity assessment under the EU AI Act and on the design and governance of regulatory sandboxes. These publications connect broad governance questions to procedures for evaluating systems and structuring supervised experimentation. The list identifies them as research papers; their titles do not mean their proposed procedures have been adopted by regulators.[3]
The distinction between scholarship and official requirements matters when reading this work. A paper about conformity assessment can offer a procedure or interpretation without itself being an approved standard, binding guidance or a finding that a particular AI system complies with the law.[3]
Engagement with state lawmakers
Yale News reported in May 2025 that the center had convened state legislators, scholars, industry representatives and nonprofit participants to discuss AI legislation. The summit was organized with Connecticut Senator James Maroney. Topics included deepfakes, elections, open-source development and coordination among states.[4]
In that account, Floridi argued for legislation compatible across jurisdictions and for input from different affected groups. The event documents engagement with lawmaking; it does not establish that he authored every proposal discussed or that participants endorsed one common model law. The coverage is a university account of its own initiative and should be identified as such.[4]
Selected works
- The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Principles, Challenges, and Opportunities (2023) — Book listed in Yale’s public biography, providing the philosophical context for his governance work.[1]
- Generative AI in EU Law (2024 manuscript) — Co-authored open manuscript covering liability, privacy, intellectual property and cybersecurity; discusses the AI Act at its then-draft stage.[2]
- A Procedure for Conducting Conformity Assessment of AI Systems in Line with the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (June 26, 2025) — Co-authored research paper, linked from Yale’s public bibliography.[3]
- Getting Regulatory Sandboxes Right: Design and Governance Under the AI Act (June 30, 2025) — Co-authored research paper, linked from Yale’s public bibliography.[3]
News and coverage
- May 7, 2025 — Yale’s Digital Ethics Center helps U.S. states navigate the promise and perils of AI. Institutional reporting on the center's engagement with legislators.[4]
Related articles
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Yale Digital Ethics Center, About the Director: Luciano Floridi. Accessed September 7, 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Claudio Novelli, Federico Casolari, Philipp Hacker, Giorgio Spedicato and Luciano Floridi, Generative AI in EU Law: Liability, Privacy, Intellectual Property, and Cybersecurity, manuscript revised March 15, 2024. Accessed September 7, 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Yale Digital Ethics Center, Publications, entries dated June 26 and June 30, 2025. Accessed September 7, 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Mike Cummings, Yale’s Digital Ethics Center helps U.S. states navigate the promise and perils of AI, Yale News, May 7, 2025. Accessed September 7, 2026.