Lorenzo Manuali

Lorenzo Manuali

Research Affiliate

Lorenzo Manuali is a PhD student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is affiliated with MINT and the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing at the University of Michigan. Lorenzo’s main interests are at the intersection of technology, cognitive science, and democratic theory. In particular, his current focus is on two projects. The first concerns AI democratization. The second concerns the role addiction and/or addictive structural features that have important cognitive scientific implications play in the digital public sphere — and what the upshots are for democratic theory. He was previously a pre-doctoral researcher at Center for Ethics and Society at Stanford University, focusing on the political philosophy/theory and ethics of technology. Specifically, he worked on the pedagogy of Stanford’s premier tech ethics course (CS182) and conducted research on the political theory of blockchain, the ethics and politics of the metaverse, and the political theory of the digital public sphere.