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Professor Sanghamitra Choudhury

Bodoland University, UN Women, Indian Society of International Law

ORCID iD 0000-0003-1417-1735
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Sanghamitra Choudhury is a tech philosopher, AI researcher, and social scientist. Despite holding credentials from the world’s most prestigious institutions, Professor Choudhury operates on a singular, defiant conviction: that a zip code should never determine the quality of a student's future. Rejecting the traditional path of elite academia, she chose to bring her expertise to the frontlines of inequality. From the rugged terrains of remote Sikkim to the heart of conflict-prone Bodoland, she has dedicated her career to transforming education from a privilege of the few into a fundamental right for the marginalized.
Prof. Choudhury has a PhD from JNU (New Delhi) and a postdoc from Oxford (UK). She has been a fellow at Queen's University (Belfast) and the Hague Academy of International Law. Presently she serves as a dean at the School of Social Sciences, Bodoland University, and HoD at the Department of Political Sciences at Bodoland University (a public university in India). She is a member of the board of studies, academic council, executive council, and governing bodies of multiple universities. Prof. Choudhury holds 15-plus years of teaching and research experience.
Professor Choudhury has been a conceptual pathfinder in AI from the beginning. She has long supported the use of the normative ideas of classical philosophers. She has made a major contribution to the body of knowledge on AI ethics with her creative arguments regarding the legal standing of AI humanoids as artificial persons.
She is widely published and well cited, and her works appear in journals published by leading international publishers worldwide, like Emerald, Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Wiley, Sage, Springer, Nature, MDPI, Elsevier, Adam Marszalak, etc. Apart from 70 journal publications, she has published 3 books and has around 500 citations on Google Scholar with an i10 index of 9. Her works have been frequently cited by STEM researchers and researchers from reputed universities.

The following analysis examines her work and public presence:
When it comes to AI, she has been an early trailblazer in terms of thought. In AI coding and programming, she has been an early advocate of drawing on the normative notions of classical philosophers. Her innovative arguments about the identity of AI humanoids as artificial persons and legal entities are a significant addition to the literature on AI ethics and philosophy.
Her tourism and AI study examines customers' willingness to utilise AI-powered robots and what they enjoy about their appearance. Service robots with caricatured, zoomorphic, mechanoid, and humanoid forms plan tourism jobs methodically.
Her gender and feminist considerations in AI focus on women, technology, and growing nations. She examines how AI and robots affect women's possibilities in developing nations through a case study of India. Women are domestic workers and under-represented in high-level professions in developing nations like South Asia. Occupational discrimination and underemployment are excessive.
Using Marx's theory, Dr. Choudhury has also looked at the role of the middle class in capitalism and what will probably happen to it in the class struggle. Her quantitative research on humans and AI companion animals sheds light on human-pet interactions and views toward live and AI pets. This research is published in a top-tier journal named Topoi.
Through her research titled "Cognitive Morality and AI," she proposes using Lawrence Kohlberg's cognitive theory to categorize the AI machines.

Policy Citations: Her work frequently appears in policy documents like Global Slavery Index 2023, etc.

Testimonials:
1. "Dear Shailendra and Sanghamitra, I enjoyed reading your very well-written article 'Migrant workers and human rights: A critical study on India’s COVID-19 lockdown policy,' which I will certainly cite as I progress with my research. Thanks"
-Prof. Ernesto Noronha, PhD, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad.

2. ... I suggest that you also read Kumar and Choudhary (2021) who, as academics, have argued well that the fundamental human rights bestowed upon the domestic migrant workers and other labourers under labour laws and the Indian Constitution were breached extensively during the first national lockdown and that the state’s policies during the lockdown worsened the condition of the migrant workers. ------ By Annavajhula J.C. Bose, PhD.
Department of Economics, Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), University of Delhi North Campus, Maurice Nagar, Delhi.
https://ecotalker.wordpress.com/2021/11/28/human-rights-economy/

3. Dear Sanghamitra and Shailendra, I read your paper with great interest. I have not seen that in-depth original analysis of the Vedas. Very impressive scholarly work. Congratulations!
- Prof. Balbir Sihag (PhD from MIT, USA), professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts for twenty-two years and now professor emeritus of economics.
Email: [email protected]

Employment

  • Bodoland University Professor, HoD( Political Science) and Dean (Social Sciences)
    2021 - Present
  • University of Oxford Senior Academic Fellow
    2014 - 2016
  • Sikkim University Assistant Professor
    2012 - 2021
  • UN Women Consultant
  • Indian Society of International Law Lecturer
  • Jawaharlal Nehru University Research Officer
  • Jamia Millia Islamia Assistant Professor

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Publications (30)