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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). Diana holds a PhD in philosophy from Harvard University, where she also worked as an 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 2017-2018 academic year and participated in the Embedded EthiCS program in 2019 and 2020. Diana studied philosophy at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, before completing a master's program at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Her research examines the role of digital platforms in fostering healthy public debate and the ethical implications of emerging technologies on the digital public sphere. She also explores human rights in post-conflict scenarios, focusing on the moral responsibilities of businesses to support peace-building processes. Diana 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 Employment

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, McCoy Family Center for Ethics and Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford University
  • Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy

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