Jocelyn Maclure is Full Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. He holds the Stephan A. Jarislowky Chair in Human Nature and Technology. He currently works on both speculative questions related to artificial general intelligence, artificial consciousness and moral status, and on practical issues in the ethics of AI. 

His publications on AI include “The New AI Spring: A Deflationary View” (AI & Society); “AI, Explainability and Public Reason: The Argument from the Limitations of the Human Mind” (Minds & Machines); “AI For Humanity: The Global Challenges” (with Stuart Russell, in Towards Responsible AI); “Intelligence artificielle, automatisation et inégalités” (with D. Rocheleau-Houle in L’intelligence artificielle and les mondes du travail) and “AI’s Fairness Problem: Understanding Wrongful Discrimination in the Context of Automated Decision-Making” (with H. Cossette-Lefebvre, under review).

As the President of the Quebec Ethics in Science and Technology Commission, he supervised the publication of several reports on the ethical and legal regulation of AI technologies. He was a member of the scientific committee of the Montreal Declaration for Responsible AI (2017) and of the Global Forum on AI for Humanity (Paris, 2019). He was part of the Canadian delegation at the UNESCO Intergovernmental Meeting of Experts related to a Draft Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, 2021.

Before turning to artificial intelligence, he published extensively on value pluralism, public reason, secularism, multiculturalism and human rights. Secularism and Freedom of Conscience (Harvard University Press, 2011), co-authored with Charles Taylor, appeared in several languages.