The Sarah Douglas Lectures on Philosophy and AI

The Sarah Douglas Lectures on Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence were endowed by Sarah Douglas in 2025, with the aim of engaging leading thinkers and the public in philosophical debates that go beyond the dominant narratives of technological capacity and ethics. The lectures tackle the epistemological and metaphysical questions at the very root of what differentiates us as humans in the age of AI.

Sarah Douglas is a professor emerita of computer and information science at the University of Oregon, where she was a trailblazer in the field of human-computer interaction. Her distinguished career spans the technical and the philosophical: she earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. in cognitive ergonomics from Stanford, with years of experience in between as a programmer, systems analyst, and manager.