Luciana Parisi is professor of literature at Duke University. Her research investigates technology and its role in the transformation of culture, aesthetics, and politics.

Parisi's current research is motivated by the broad question of what philosophy becomes in the era of computational technology. She posits that there has been a demise in philosophy and philosophical thinking in the face of increasingly automated decision-making, leading to a poverty of philosophy and of critique. Due to the fallacies present in automation — which are then cemented through the use of algorithms — we can no longer be sure that thinking equals truth, since all that algorithms do is optimize probabilities.

Parisi discusses "Negative AI and the Future of Knowledge" at Berkeley in conjunction with the Townsend Center's 2024 Collaborative Research Seminar on “Rethinking Futures."