MADELAINE LEY

RESEARCHER AND PHILOSOPHER

Madelaine Ley is a doctoral candidate at Delft University of Technology, researching the ethics of robots in retail settings. What started out as rather tame work on designing robots for worker wellbeing is now a thesis that blends philosophy, politics, and poetry to explore (nothing less than) care, robots, ecology, food systems, motherhood, epistemology, and philosophical methods. Madelaine was named one of the "100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics" by Lighthouse3 and ran a speaker series on intersectional feminist approaches to AI. Her work has been featured on the BBC and Radio2050, in Yes! Magazine, One Zero, and Life Itself. She is also a poet, writer, and podcaster for "Beauty in the Mire". Starting in summer 2024, she will host "Exploring the Sacred Sessions" in Delft's Oude Kerk, a series of non-religious, spiritual gatherings that blend somatic practice and collective reflection.