Prof. Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh is a full Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Philosophy of Department of the University of Vienna, and until recently Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education. He is University of Vienna’s Circle U. Academic Chair for Artificial Intelligence. He is also ERA Chair at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and a former Guest Professor at WASP-HS and University of Uppsala. He is a member of University of Vienna’s Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society Research Centre. Previously he was the President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT). His expertise focuses on ethics and technology, in particular robotics and artificial intelligence. He is a member of various entities that support policy building in the area of robotics and artificial intelligence, such as the European Commission’s High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, the Expert Council Ethics of AI of the Austrian UNESCO Commission, the Austrian Council on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, and the Austrian Advisory Council on Automated Mobility. He is on the advisory board of several research centres and on the editorial board of numerous journals, including AI & Society (associate editor) and Cambridge Forum on AI: Law and Governance. He is the author of 21 philosophy books and numerous articles (H index 64), and is involved in several national and European research projects on AI and robotics.
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