Technology and Solidarity

Aliah Yacoub is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Utrecht University, where she is part of the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDiT) programme. Her research examines how emerging technologies transform our social practices, moral concepts, and normative understandings. Her doctoral project focuses on the relationship between technological disruption and solidarity, exploring how technologies such as large language models, digital labour platforms, and content moderation systems shape the conditions under which solidarity is experienced and practised. More broadly, her work engages with conceptual disruption in the ethics of technology, with particular interests in the phenomenology of social relations, the nature of solidarity, and the ethical and political implications of technological change. She previously worked in AI ethics and is interested in bringing philosophical inquiry into dialogue with contemporary technological developments and their social consequences.