ABOUT ELEANOR
Exploring how AI shapes people, power and society
Dr Eleanor Drage is a researcher, author, broadcaster and speaker working at the intersection of AI, ethics, technology and society.
How can we get AI right?
Eleanor started her career in financial technology before co-founding an e-commerce company. Now a Senior Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, she maintains her strong interest in commercial concerns and opportunities in AI by working to bridge the gap between industry in academia in AI Ethics.
She leads a team running a nationwide digital wellbeing project, investigating how people use generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude for life advice. She also led the team that built the world's first free EU AI Act auditing tool that allows companies to meet the Act's obligations - which have been enriched with feminist and antiracist principles. She previously explored what AI ethics currently means to AI engineers at a major tech multinational the size of Meta. Her extensive advisory work in the AI Ethics space also includes the UN Data Science & Ethics Group's 'Applied Ethics Toolkit'.
Taking ideas beyond academia
Eleanor is committed to broadcasting ideas to a wide variety of audiences, from young people at school to older populations affected by AI use.
She has been an invited guest on BBC 4 Moral Maze, BBC Radio 3 Arts & Ideas, and BBC World Service, and is a regular panelist and keynote speaker in corporate, public and academic settings, including The Southbank Centre, Lost Village festival, Google DeepMind, the United Nations, BNP Paribas, NatWest, The Open Data Institute (ODI), and the Institute of Science & Technology.
Eleanor is also a broadcaster, presenter, and host of The Good Robot Podcast, which is among the world’s top 5% of most listened podcasts, where she interviews top scholars and technologists about AI ethics.
She was also a TikToker for Carole Cadwalladr’s All The Citizens data rights channel, has featured in multiple documentary films about AI, and does educational broadcasting on a variety of online and TV channels.
She is the author of What If We Got AI Right? How to stop catastrophising and build an ethical future (2026); The Good Robot: Why Technologies of the Future Need Feminism (2024); The Planetary Humanism of European Women’s SF: An Experience of the Impossible (2023), and co-editor of Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data, and Intelligent Machines (2023).
An international academic journey
Eleanor has an international dual degree PhD from the University of Bologna and the University of Granada, where she was an Early Stage Researcher for the EU Horizon 2020 ETN-ITN-Marie Curie Project “GRACE” (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe).
She has made two short films about science fiction utopias and dystopias, and co-created a feminist quotation-generating app called ‘Quotidian’.
IN ACTION
Speaking & broadcasting across events and audiences
From global stages to expert panels and media interviews, Eleanor makes complex ideas engaging, relevant and actionable.
