Coming Event: The Architecture of Moral Attention: LLMs, Habit Plasticity, and Moral Transformations
4/30/2025 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM 
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Sylvie Delacroix examines how the ways that large-language models (LLMs) relay morally-loaded unknowns qualitatively affect the nature of future conversations we have about AI, moving her to call on us all to not sit idly by as AI reshapes our worlds.
 
Sylvie Delacroix is the Inaugural Jeff Price Chair in Digital Law and the director of the Centre for Data Futures (King's College London). She is also a visiting professor at the University of Tohoku (Japan). Her research focuses on the role played by habit within ethical agency, the role of conversations as a moral experimentation window and (in that context), LLMs' communication of non-quantifiable uncertainty. She also considers bottom-up data empowerment structures and the social sustainability of the data ecosystem that makes generative AI possible. The latter work led to the first data trusts pilots worldwide being launched in 2022 in the context of the Data Trusts initiative. Her latest book Habitual Ethics? was published by Bloomsbury in 2022 (open-access).
 
Her work on agency-enhancing, participatory infrastructure and the communication of uncertainty in the context of LLMs deployed in morally-loaded contexts is funded by the McGovern Foundation. Previously, Professor Delacroix's work has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, the NHS, Mozilla Foundation, Omidyar Network and the Leverhulme Trust, from whom she received the Leverhulme Prize.
 
The public policy dimensions of her work have led her to being invited to contribute to multiple policy initiatives. She has also acted as an expert for public bodies and served on the Public Policy Commission on the use of algorithms in the justice system (Law Society of England and Wales).