Professor David Leslie

Profile

Professor David Leslie is Professor of Ethics, Technology, and Society at DERI. The current focuses of his research are on digital ethics, algorithmic accountability, explainability, and the social and ethical impacts of machine learning and data-driven innovations. In particular, he is keen to question how the biospherically and geohistorically ramifying scope of contemporary scientific innovation (in areas ranging from AI and synthetic biology to nanotechnology and geoengineering) is putting pressure on the conventional action-orienting categories and norms by which humans, at present, regulate their behaviour.

Research

Publications

• Domínguez Hernández A, Perini AM, Hadjiloizou S et al. (2026). Towards a sociotechnical ecology of artificial intelligence: power, accountability, and governance in a global context. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/s43681-025-00902-6

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/handle/123456789/115772
• Leslie D (2025). Does the sun rise for ChatGPT? Scientific discovery in the age of generative AI. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/s43681-023-00315-3

  
  

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