Alexander von Humboldt-Professur

Aimee van Wynsberghe ist die Alexander von Humboldt-Professorin für Künstliche Intelligenz (KI).

Sie wird gefördert von der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung sowie deren Stifter, das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung.

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Aktuelle Positionen

• seit 2021
  Alexander von Humboldt-Professur für Angewandte Ethik der Künstlichen Intelligenz                          

• seit 2021
  Direktorin, Institut für Wissenschaft und Ethik

• seit 2025
  Gewähltes Mitglied der Expertengruppe „KI & Nachhaltigkeit“, Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, nukleare Sicherheit und Verbraucherschutz

• seit 2025
  Gewähltes Mitglied, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina

• seit 2025
  Gewähltes Mitglied der interdisziplinären Task-Force der Universität Aarhus (AIAS)

• seit 2022
  Mitglied, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz

• seit 2022
  Mitglied des Beirats der Konrad Zuse Schools of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (DAAD)

• seit 2023
  Mitglied des Beirats, Human Magazine     

• seit 2015
  Vorsitzende & Co-Gründerin, Foundation for Responsible Robotics

Frühere Positionen

• 2020 – 2021
  Assoc. Professor (Tenured), Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
  Technical University of Delft, Netherlands

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

• 2019 – 2021
  Centre for the Edge Fellow, Deloitte

• 2019 – 2021
  Board Member & Co-Founder, ALLAI

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

• 2019 – 2020
  Digital Ethics Content Expert, Deloitte

• 2020
  Moderator for Panels on AI, G20 – Saudi Arabia Host

• 2017 – 2020
  Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Technical University of Delft, Netherlands

• 2014 – 2017
  Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, Netherlands

• 2015
  Visiting Research Fellow, Information School, University of Washington, USA

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

Spezialisierungsgebiete

• Ethik der Künstlichen Intelligenz

• Ethik der Robotik

• Ethik des Digitalen

• Care-Ethik

• Value Sensitive Design

Akademische Ausbildung

• 2012
  University of Twente (PhD, Applied Ethics)
  Dissertation: 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)

Auszeichnungen, Preise und Drittmittel (Auswahl)

• 2022
  Stiftung Mercator Förderung, 3,8 Millionen EUR

• 2021
  Alexander von Humboldt-Professur, 3,5 Millionen EUR

• 2020
  NWO, Gravitation Grant, 200.000 EUR

• 2019
  AirLab/Ahold Delhaize, Collaboration Grant, 250.000 EUR

• 2018
  British Academy, Small Research Grant, 9.000 GBP

• 2015
  NWO, Veni Personal Research Grant, 250.000 EUR

Publikationen (letzte 7 Jahre)

2024

• “The attribution problem of a seemingly intangible industry”, (2024). Environmental Challenges. (with Biber-Freudenberger, L. & Falk, S.)

• “Repairing AI”, (2024). In M.T. Young & M. Coeckelbergh (eds.) Keeping Things Going: Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology, Routledge (with Stone, T.).

• "Sustainable AI and the third wave of AI ethics: a structural turn", AI and Ethics, 1-10 (2024).
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-024-00522-6 (with Bolte, L.)

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. 

• “Mind Who’s Testing – Turing Tests and the Post-Colonial Imposition of their Implicit Conceptions of Intelligence”, AI & Society (2023). DOI: 10.1007/s00146-023-01796-w. (with Fischbach, F. & Vandemeulebroucke, T.).

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

• “Artificial Intelligence: from ethics to policy”, (2020). STOA Options Brief, European Parliament. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/641507/EPRS_STU(2020)641507_EN.pdf

• “Toward an Ethics of Environmental Robotics”, (2020). Philosophy & Technology. In Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-020-00399-3 (with Donhauser, J.)

• “Digital platforms and responsible innovation: expanding value sensitive design to overcome ontological uncertainty”, (2020). Ethics and Information Technology, 22, 257-267 (with de Reuver, M., Janssen, M., & van de Poel, I.).

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

• “Socioethical Approaches to Robotics Development” (2018) IEEE Robotics Automation Magazine, 25(1), 26–28. https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2017.2787225 (with Sharkey, N. et al)

• “The Dawning of the Ethics of Environmental Robots”, (2018). Science and Engineering Ethics, 24 (6), 1777-1800. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-017-9990-3

• “Drones in the service of society.” (2018). Foundation for Responsible Robotics. https://responsible-robotics-myxf6pn3xr.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Drones-in-the-Service-of-Society1.pdf (with Soesilo, D. et al)