Eleanor Drage

Dr Eleanor Drage is a Cambridge AI ethics expert, author and speaker, renowned for her engaging insights on building ethical, inclusive and human-centred technology.

Dr Eleanor Drage is a leading voice on AI ethics, technology and society. She is a Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge, where she leads a €1.9 million initiative on AI ethics. She created the world’s first free EU AI Act compliance tool through academia–industry collaboration, supports journalists globally in reporting responsibly on AI, and is working with broadcaster Sandi Toksvig to create a “Wikipedia for Women”. Her cross-cultural projects span the Middle East and Japan, advancing dialogue on ethics and technology worldwide.

Recognised among the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics, Eleanor is also co-host of The Good Robot podcast, which has reached more than 40,000 listeners and been adapted into a Bloomsbury book, The Good Robot: Feminist Voices on the Future of Technology. Her research and commentary on issues such as bias in recruitment AI, policing technologies, and how AI scientists are portrayed in cinema have been featured by the BBC, Forbes, The Telegraph, The Guardian, Glamour Magazine and international media outlets.

Eleanor is renowned for her engaging and thought-provoking keynote talks, often described as the highlight of events. She cuts through “cookie-cutter takes on AI” with refreshing clarity, speaking directly to audiences’ fears and hopes about technology. A regular guest on BBC News and debate programmes such as BBC Radio 4 Moral Maze, she has also worked with organisations including Google DeepMind, The Financial Times, the United Nations Data Science & Ethics Group, CNN and BNP Paribas.

Her forthcoming book What If We Got AI Right? explores how to move beyond dystopian narratives to build an ethical future, while her previous works include An Experience of the Impossible, Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines, and the forthcoming Reprogram: Why Big Tech is Broken and How Feminism Can Transform It. Eleanor is also a Bye-Fellow at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.