Louise Amoore

Professor Louise Amoore is Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life and professor of human geography at Durham University, UK. Louise is known for her pioneering research on the politics and ethics of AI, biometrics, and machine learning technologies. She is the author of Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others (Duke, 2020) in which she examines how algorithms interact with the data attributes of people, objects, and scenes, and how AI systems could be held accountable through engagement with the conditions of their operation. In her book The Politics of Possibility (Duke, 2013) she traces how contemporary state security, border controls, and biometrics have shifted from the calculation of statistical probability to a novel form of algorithmic possibility. Louise’s work has been funded by foundations and research councils across disciplines – ESRC, EPSRC, AHRC, Leverhulme Trust, British Academy, Netherlands NWO, and Independent Research Fund Denmark – most recently the European Research Council Advanced grant Algorithmic Societies: Ethical Life in the Machine Learning Age (2020-26). She was a social science and humanities Falling Walls Winner in 2023 for “breaking walls to ethical societies in the age of algorithms”. Louise is elected Fellow of the British Academy. Louise is honoured to lead the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life and looks forward to the vibrant new research across our themes of Generativity, Image & Language, Synthetic Worlds, and Being Human.