Lucius Caviola

Lucius Caviola is an Assistant Professor in the Social Science of AI at the University of Cambridge, where he directs the Digital Minds lab within the Institute for Technology and Humanity and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. He also holds a Research Associate position in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. He completed his PhD in experimental psychology at the University of Oxford in 2019, with a dissertation on the psychological foundations of moral attitudes toward animals, before undertaking a postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Joshua Greene at Harvard (2019-2023) and subsequently serving as Senior Research Fellow at Oxford's Global Priorities Institute (2023-2025). His research spans moral psychology, the social science of AI, animal ethics, and charitable giving, examining how psychological factors shape moral decision-making and how AI is reshaping society. He co-authored the book Effective Altruism and the Human Mind (Oxford University Press) with Stefan Schubert, and co-created Giving Multiplier, a donation platform that has raised over $6 million for effective charities and received a Gates Foundation award. He is also co-founder of the Effective Altruism Foundation, and has received the 2025 Rising Star Award from the Association for Psychological Science.

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