Olya Kudina

Olya Kudina is assistant professor in ethics of technology at TU Delft. Her research focuses on the dynamic interaction between values and technologies, and aims to accompany technological development with ethical reflection and cultural sensitivity as essential counterparts. To this end, her philosophic work is inspired by (post)phenomenology, Dewey’s pragmatism, and bioethics and integrates qualitative empirical methods from STS and psychology. Olya’s recent research explores the responsible use and design of Natural Language Processing and Automatic Speech Recognition algorithms, with applications in voice assistants such as Alexa and conversational agents such as ChatGPT. She is co-director of the AI DeMoS Lab that focuses on the relation between AI and democracy, and responsible AI development practices. She is also co-editor of the Journal of Human-Technology Relations.