Rate My Professor Kate Vredenburgh

Dr. Kate Vredenburgh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She received her PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University in 2019, her BPhil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford in 2011, and her BA in Philosophy and English Literature summa cum laude from Gettysburg College in 2009. Vredenburgh joined the London School of Economics as an Assistant Professor in 2020, advancing to Associate Professor. Previously, she held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford University in the Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society from 2019 to 2020.

Her research addresses questions in the philosophy of social science, political philosophy, and the philosophy of AI, focusing on explanation and explainable AI, institutional transparency, the philosophy of work, egalitarianism, and fair allocation. Key publications include 'The Right to Explanation' in the Journal of Political Philosophy (2022), 'Freedom at Work: Understanding, Alienation, and the AI-Driven Workplace' in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2022), 'AI and Bureaucratic Discretion' in Inquiry (2023), 'Transparency and Explainability for Public Policy' in the LSE Public Policy Review (2024), 'Causal Explanation and Revealed Preferences' in Philosophy of Science (2024), and 'Fairness and Randomness in Decision-Making: The Case of Algorithmic Hiring' in Synthese (2025). In July 2024, she was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for the project 'Your Boss is a Machine: Protecting Worker Autonomy in an AI-Driven Economy' (2024-2028), which examines AI's effects on worker autonomy, develops a moral theory of worker autonomy, conducts empirical research on AI impacts in the UK, and creates metrics to assess autonomy and regulatory interventions. Vredenburgh has engaged in public philosophy through podcasts on AI's societal impacts and seminars on related topics.