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Diana Acosta Navas

Assistant Professor of Management, Business Ethics


Diana Acosta-Navas is an Assistant Professor of Management, specializing in business ethics, at Loyola University Chicago. She was previously an Embedded EthiCS fellow at Stanford University, based in the Center for Ethics in Society (EiS) and the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). She holds a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University, where she worked as adjunct lecturer in Ethics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She was a recipient of the Edmond J. Safra Center Graduate Fellowship during the academic year 2017-2018, and worked as part of the Embedded EthiCS program in the years 2019 and 2020. Diana studied philosophy at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, after which she did a master's program at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
One of her research streams analyzes the role of digital platforms in creating conditions for a healthy public debate, and the ethical implications of emerging technologies’ impact on the digital public sphere. Her second line of research focuses on human rights in post-conflict scenarios and is currently analyzing the moral responsibilities of business to support peace-building processes. She was recently awarded a Summer Research grant for a project on the ethics of AI agents and AI-driven augmentation.
Personal website: https://acosta.phd

Education

  • Ph.D. in Philosophy, Harvard University
  • MA in Philosophy, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  • BA in Philosophy, Universidad de los Andes

Research Interests

  • Ethics of AI
  • Business Ethics
  • Human Rights
  • Transitional Justice
  • Business and Peace

Professional/Community Affiliations

  • AI Ethics Director, Lab for Applied AI, Quinlan School of Business
  • Member, Institute for Data, Econometrics, Algorithms, and Learning
  • Member, Society for Business Ethics
  • Member, Association of Computing Machinery

Courses Taught

  • Ethics In Business

Publications/Research Listings

'Acosta Navas, D. In Moderation: Automation in the Digital Public Sphere. J Bus Ethics (2025) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-024-05912-8?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nonoa_20250118&utm_content=10.1007%2Fs10551-024-05912-8#citeas
Goldberg, B. et al. "AI and the Future of Digital Public Squares." arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.09988 (2025). https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09988
Acosta Navas, D. On Foundations and Foundation Models. In Ugazio and Maricic (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Philanthropy. Routledge (2025). https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Artificial-Intelligence-and-Philanthropy/Ugazio-Maricic/p/book/9781032743011?_ga=1744246458.1718668800
Liang, P. et. al. Holistic Evaluation of Language Models, Transactions on Machine Learning Research (08/2023) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.09110
Bondi, E. et. al. Envisioning Communities: A Participatory Approach Towards AI for Social Good. Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (2021) https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.01774

Awards

  • Summer Research Grant, Loyola University Chicago, 2025
  • Gift in Support of Excellent Research in Academia, Google, 2023
  • Ethics, Technology, and Society Hub Grant, Stanford University, 2021
  • Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard GSAS, 2020-2021
  • Summer Research Award, Harvard Graduate Student Council, 2020
  • Philosophy Department Fellowship, Harvard Philosophy Department 2017-2018
  • Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Graduate Fellowship, Harvard University, 2017-2018