Prof. Dr. Aimee van Wynsberghe

Aimee van Wynsberghe
© Aimee van Wynsberghe

Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Director, Institute for Science and Ethics

Bonn University


IWE - Institute for Science and Ethics
Bonner Talweg 57
53113 Bonn
Germany

vanwynsberghe@uni-bonn.de


Please send requests to Laura Michler (michler@iwe.uni-bonn.de).
Requests concerning teaching: teaching@iwe.uni-bonn.de.

(June 2023)

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

Aimee van Wynsberghe is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Artificial Intelligence (AI). She is sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and its sponsor, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Humboldt Stiftung
© Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

Current Appointments

  • 2021 – present
    Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Applied Ethics of AI

  • 2021 – present
    Director Institute for Science and Ethics

  • 2022 – present
    Elected Member, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz

  • 2022 – present
    Advisory Board Member, Konrad Zuse Schools of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (DAAD)

  • 2015 – present
    President & Co-Founder, Foundation for Responsible Robotics

Past Appointments

  • 2020 – 2021
    Assoc. Professor (Tenured), Technical University of Delft

  • 2019 – 2021
    Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Technical University of Delft

  • 2019 – 2021
    Centre for the Edge Fellow, Deloitte

  • 2019 – 2020
    Digital Ethics Content Expert, Deloitte

  • 2018 – 2020
    Rapporteur, European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI

  • 2017 – 2020
    Asst Professor (Tenure Track), Technical University of Delft

  • 2014 – 2017
    Asst Professor, University of Twente

  • 2012 – 2014
    Post-doctoral researcher, University of Twente

Areas of Specialization

  • Artificial Intelligence Ethics

  • Robot Ethics

  • Digital Ethics

  • Care Ethics

  • Value Sensitive Design

Education

  • 2012
    University of Twente (PhD, Applied Ethics)
    Thesis: Designing Robots with Care: creating an ethical framework for the future design and implementation of care robots.                           

  • 2008
    Erasmus Mundus (M.A., Bioethics, Cum Laude)

  • 2007
    Catholic University of Leuven (M.A., Applied Ethics)

  • 2006
    University of Western Ontario (B.Sc., Honours-Cell Biology)

Awards, Grants, and Distinctions (selection)

  • 2022
    Stiftung Mercator grant, 3.8 million Euros

  • 2021
    Alexander von Humboldt Professorship grant, 3.5 million Euros

  • 2020
    NWO, Gravitation Grant, 200,000 Euros

  • 2019
    AirLab/Ahold Delhaize, Collaboration Grant, 250,000 Euros

  • 2018
    British Academy, Small Research Grant, 9000 GBP

  • 2015
    NWO, Veni Personal Research Grant, 250,000 Euros

Publications (last 6 years)

2023

  • “Challenging AI for Sustainability: what ought it mean?”, AI Ethics (2023).
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-023-00323-3 (with Falk, S.) 

  • “Special Issue: Towards the Sustainability of AI; Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Investigate the Hidden Costs of AI”, (2023). (Eds. with Vandemeulebroucke, T., Bolte, L. & Nachid, J.). Sustainability. MDPI.

     

2022

  • “Special Issue ‘Towards the Sustainability of AI; Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Investigate the Hidden Costs of AI’” (2022). Editorial. Sustainability 14(24), 16352. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su142416352 (with Vandemeulebroucke, T., Bolte, L. & Nachid, J.)

  • “Social Robots and the Risks to Reciprocity”, (2022). AI & Society 37 (2), 479-485.

  • “Care Ethics, Philosophy of Technology, & Robots in Humanitarian Action”, (2022). In Vallor, S. (ed), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology, Vallor, S. (ed). Oxford University Press.

  • “Our New Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure: Becoming Locked into an Unsustainable Future”, (2022). Sustainability 14 (8), 4829 (with Robbins, S.)

  • “From an Ethics of Carefulness to an Ethics of Desirability: Going Beyond Current Approaches to Sustainable AI” (2022). Sustainability 14 (8), 4472 (with Bolte L. & Vandemeulebroucke T.).

  • “Ethical Aspects of Human-Robot Collaboration in Industrial Settings”, (2022). The 21st Century Industrial Robot: When Tools Become Collaborators, 255-266 (with Ley M. and Roeser S.)

 
2021

  • “Sustainable AI: AI for sustainability and the sustainability of AI”, (2021). AI and Ethics, 1-6.

  • “Responsible Robotics and Responsibility Attribution”, (2021). Robotics, AI, and Humanity: Science, Ethics, and Policy, 239-249.

  • “Steps Towards an Ethics of Environmental Robotics”, (2021). Philosophy & Technology 34 (3), 507-524 (with J Donhauser, & A Bearden).


2020


2019

  • “Drones in Humanitarian Contexts, Robot Ethics, and Preserving Dignity”, (2019).  Ethics & Information Technology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-019-09514-1 (with Comes, T.)

  • “A Paradigm Shift for Robot Ethics: from HRI to Human-Robot-System-Interaction”, (2019). Medicolegal & Bioethics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2147/MB.S160348 (with Li, S.)

  • “Engaging Robots as Nursing Partners in Caring: Nursing as Caring Meets Care-Centered Value-Sensitive Design”, (2019). International Journal for Human Caring, 23(2), 157-167. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20467/1091-5710.23.2.157 (with Schoenhofer, S.O. & Boykin, A.)

  • “Designing Nursing Care Practices Complemented by Robots: Ethical Implications and Application of Caring Frameworks”, (2019). International Journal for Human Caring, 23(2), 132-140. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20467/1091-5710.23.2.132 (with Grobbel, C., Davis, R., & Poly-Droulard, L.)

  • “The Semblance of Aliveness: How the Peculiar Embodiment of Sex Robots will Matter”, (2019). Techne, 23 (3), 290-317. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5840/techne20191125105 (with J. Grunsven)

  • “Critiquing the Reasons for Artificial Moral Agents”, (2019) Science and Engineering Ethics, 25 (3), 719-735. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-018-0030-8. (with Robbins, S.)


2018

Media

An overview of selected interviews, panels and podcasts from the last 2 years with Prof. Dr. Aimee van Wynsberghe can be found here.

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