Lucy Collins

I'm a tenured philosophy professor and AI skeptic who teaches ethics at the Fashion Institute of Technology — which turns out to be the perfect vantage point for understanding what AI is actually doing to us. Fashion has always been where anxieties about the self, the body, and identity get worked out first. So has technology. I work at that intersection.

I research and teach at the crossroads of AI ethics, education, and what it means to be human in an optimization culture. My work asks the questions tech companies prefer we don't: what are we actually losing when we hand a child a Chromebook? Who benefits when efficiency becomes the highest value in a classroom — or anywhere? What belief system are we quietly signing up for when we treat the self as a problem to be solved?

I went viral at a school board meeting arguing that EdTech isn't neutral. I run the public philosophy platform Technopolis Unbound. I'm here because these conversations need more philosophical depth — and because parents, educators, and anyone paying attention already sense something is wrong. I can give them the words for it.