Biography
Apolline Taillandier is Academic Adviser on the MSt AI Ethics and Society within PACE. She is also a postdoctoral research associate at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, and at the Center for Science and Thought at the University of Bonn. Apolline studied political theory at Sciences Po in Paris before joining the Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies where she wrote her dissertation on the history of contemporary transhumanism. She was a Fulbright student researcher at the University of California, Berkeley Sociology Department in 2018 and a Cambridge Sciences Po visiting student in POLIS in 2019. Her current project investigates historical intersections between feminist thought and AI from the 1980s onwards, focusing on critical and socially responsible computing projects. She is also interested in transnational circulations and reinterpretations of ethics and gender justice norms in current debates about AI justice.