Biographie
Marc-Antoine Dilhac (PhD, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) is a professor of ethics and political philosophy at Université de Montréal and an associate member of Mila – Quebec AI Institute. He currently holds a CIFAR Chair in AI Ethics (2019–2024) and previously held the Canada Research Chair in Public Ethics and Political Theory (2014–2019). He specializes in theories of democracy and social justice, as well as applied ethics. His current research focuses on the ethical and social impacts of AI and on issues of governance and institutional design, with a particular interest in how new technologies are transforming public relations and political structures.
In 2017, he launched the Montreal Declaration for a Responsible Development of AI and chaired its scientific committee. In 2020, as director of Algora Lab, he led an international deliberation process as part of UNESCO’s consultation on its recommendation on AI ethics.
In 2019, he founded Algora Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory advancing research on AI ethics and developing a deliberative approach to the governance of AI and digital technologies. He is co-director of deliberations at the International Observatory on the Social Impacts of AI and Digital Technologies (OBVIA) and contributes to the OECD’s AI Policy Observatory (OECD.AI) as a member of its ONE.AI expert network.
He sits on the Government of Canada’s Advisory Council on AI and co-chairs its Public Awareness Working Group.
