Posted by The Law School
7 April 2026The Exeter Centre for International Law invites you to a presentation by Senior Research Fellow, Dr Talita Dias, on the subject of ‘Human Rights Risks of Autonomous AI Agents’.
Biography: Dr Talita Dias is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, where she is directing the project ‘Advancing the Application of International Law in the Cyber Context in Africa’. This project builds on the Handbook on Developing a National Position on International Law and Cyber Activities: A Practical Guide for States, co-authored with Professor Kubo Mačak and Dr Ágnes Kasper.
Prior to joining Exeter, Talita was the International Policy and Government Lead at Partnership on AI (PAI), where she led research on global AI governance and oversaw PAI’s government relations. Talita also held positions at Chatham House (where she was a Senior Research Fellow in the International Law Programme, leading research on international law and emerging technologies); the University of Oxford (as a Junior Research Fellow in Law, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Law & Public Policy, and a Lecturer in International Law and Criminal Law); and Royal Hollow (where she was a Teaching Fellow in International Law). She has worked for national governments, international organizations (including the European Union External Action Service and the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, and the International Criminal Court), and civil society organisations.
Talita is an international lawyer with over twelve years of academic research, teaching, and policy experience. She holds a DPhil and a master’s in law from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Laws from the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil, where she is a qualified lawyer.