In 2014–2015, Rossi took a sabbatical as a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University.

In the past, she has also worked on language semantics, graph grammars, logic programming, and Petri nets.

She co-authored the book "A Short Introduction to Preferences: Between Artificial Intelligence and Social Choice", published in the Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning by Morgan & Claypool Publishers, July 2011.

Additionally, she authored the book "Il confine del futuro – Possiamo fidarci dell'Intelligenza Artificiale?

Francesca is a leader in the field of AI ethics, both through her AI research projects focused on embedding human values in AI systems and the many roles she has held—or currently holds—in this area: Francesca has delivered 4 TEDx talks, on topics related to AI: She has delivered several online talks and podcast, including "Fast and Slow AI",[4] (Francesca Rossi and Daniel Kahneman, CERN SPARK, 2021) Francesca has been interviewed by several prominent media outlets, including: D di Repubblica (May 2021), The Nikkei (June 2021), Insider: Inside the Technology (September 2021), Fortune (December 2021), The Financial Times (September 2018), The Nikkei (January 2018), The Economist (June 2016), The Washington Post (May 2015), the Wall Street Journal (May 2015), Sydney Morning Herald (February 2015), Euronews (January 2015).