Go to content
- {{#headlines}}
- {{title}} {{/headlines}}
Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
|---|---|
| Research fields | Practical Philosophy |
| Keywords | Care Ethics, AI Ethics, Values in Design, Robot Ethics, Applied Ethics |
Current contact address
| Country | Germany |
|---|---|
| City | Bonn |
| Institution | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn |
| Institute | Institut für Wissenschaft und Ethik (IWE) |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Hoch | Institut für Wissenschaft und Ethik (IWE), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn |
|---|---|
| Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Hoch | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/02/2021 |
Programme(s)
| 2020 | Alexander von Humboldt Professorship (Artificial Intelligence) |
|---|
Nominator's project description
| Robots play an ever-larger role in many people’s everyday lives. They support medical staff during complicated operations, deliver parcels to our front doors in the form of drones and can be found in our children’s rooms acting as playmates. The growing range of AI and robotics applications seems to know no technical boundaries for the future. But what does it mean for people to increasingly interact with machines? For Aimee van Wynsberghe, the social penetration of artificial intelligence is an ongoing social experiment that requires new rules and control mechanisms. Through her research she wants to introduce previously neglected ethical values into the design and development of scientific and technical innovations. With her scientific expertise, van Wynsberghe also makes valuable contributions to the international political discourse, be it as co-director and co-founder of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics or as an advisor to the European Commission on questions of artificial intelligence. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Artificial Intelligence and Humanity and is committed to the major objective of putting the ethical and responsible development of robots on the global agenda. In the person of Aimee van Wynsberghe, the University of Bonn is gaining one of the world’s most high-profile researchers in robot ethics. By creating the newly-designed professorship in the Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Bonn will assume a vanguard position in humancentric artificial intelligence in Europe. Van Wynsberghe will also become director of the university’s Institute of Science and Ethics (IWE). In her new positions, she will, amongst other things, set out on a search for meaningful forms of sustainable AI. |
Publications (partial selection)
| 2021 | van Wynsberghe, Aimee: Sustainable {AI}: {AI} for sustainability and the sustainability of {AI}. In: AI and Ethics, 2021, |
|---|