People
Undergraduate student in Philosophy (Teaching Degree) at UFRJ, member of the Research Group on AI and Humanities at the Tércio Pacitti Institute for Applications and Computational Research (NCE/UFRJ). Her main interest lies in the field of ethics and regulation of digital technologies, seeking to understand their impact on humanity in areas such as art, the job market, performance, and cognition, among others. She prioritizes well-being and investigates how we can achieve true progress in which humans are benefited by machines, while maintaining our autonomy and fostering the flourishing of our capabilities.
Maria Clara Teixeira
President
Undergraduate student (Teaching Degree) in Philosophy at UFRJ, with a concentration in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy, studying how language models can engage with or challenge linguistic paradigms through artificial agency. Outside of coursework, conducts undergraduate research on Wittgenstein, Carnap, and Reza Negarestani. In free time, explores how emerging technologies intensify through market dynamics and transform social relations, while also engaging with speculative philosophy, including Accelerationism and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Jonata Vale
Vice-President
Mariana Yang is an undergraduate student in Social Sciences, with an emphasis on Political Science. She is a member of LAPPCOM (Laboratory of Parties, Elections, and Comparative Politics), with research interests in parliamentary amendments, party federations—understood as temporary and institutionalized parliamentary coalitions—as well as the impact of the increase in the number of seats in the Chamber of Deputies on institutional dynamics. She also works as an extensionist in the project Introduction to Data Analysis Applied to the Understanding of Political and Social Scenarios, using the R programming language for the exploration, organization, and interpretation of data focused on political analysis.
Mariana Yang
Head of Communications
Thiago Beck Raices is a poet, actor, and science fiction enthusiast, an undergraduate student in Philosophy, a trained psychologist from UFC, and holds a Master’s degree in Psychosocial Care from UFRJ. He sees in the intersections of art and life glimpses of the questions—especially ethical ones—that the future always finds a way to confront us with. In his clinical practice, he also observes the ways new technologies cross into people’s lives and their impact on health; therefore, his research focuses on the repercussions of technological development in the fields of ethics and mental health. Beyond this, with words as his main instrument of work and the tool he explores across different fronts, he looks at the construction of Language Models and Artificial Intelligences with great interest and attention.
Thiago Beck
Head of Finance
Advisory Board
Earned his Ph.D. from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with a research period at the University of California, Berkeley. He has conducted two postdoctoral research projects in neuroscience, philosophy of neuroscience, and philosophy of mind at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is a Collaborating Member of the “Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Lab” at The Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research (IMHR), affiliated with the University of Ottawa.
Gabriel Mograbi
Holds Ph.D. degrees in Philosophy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in Law from PUC-SP, and in Economics from the Fluminense Federal University. His main areas of work are Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, and Applied Ethics. He is also a Livre-Docente at the University of São Paulo (USP).
Eduardo Moreira
Steven S. Gouveia holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Minho (Portugal) and currently leads a six-year research project on AI Ethics in Medicine at the Mind, Language and Action Group of the Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto (Portugal). He is also an Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Andrés Bello University (Viña del Mar, Chile).
