Prof. Dr. Aimee van Wynsberghe
University of Bonn
Institute of Science and Ethics
Bonner Talweg 57
53113 Bonn
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(Februar 2021)
Areas of Specialization
- Artificial Intelligence Ethics
- Robot Ethics
- Care Ethics
- Value Sensitive Design
- Digital Ethics
Employment
- 2020 – present: Director, Institute for Science and Ethics, Bonn
- 2020 – present: Humboldt Professorship „Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence“, University of Bonn
- 2020 – 2021: Assoc. Professor (Tenured), Technical University of Delft
- 2019 – 2021: Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Technical University of Delft
- 2019 – 2020: Centre for the Edge Fellow, Deloitte
- 2019 – present: Board Member & Co-Founder, ALLAI
- 2018 – 2020: Rapporteur, European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI
- 2015 – present: President & Co-Founder, Foundation for Responsible Robotics
- 2017 – 2021: Asst Professor (Tenure Track), Technical University of Delft
- 2014 – 2017: Asst Professor, University of Twente
- 2015: Visiting Research Fellow, University of Washington
- 2012 – 2014: Post-doctoral researcher, University of Twente
Education and Degrees
- 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)
Recent Publications
Books:
- Robots in Healthcare: design, development and implementation. 2016. Routledge. New York, NY.
Reports:
- “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
Papers and book chapters:
- “Responsible Robotics & Responsibility Attribution” (2020). Robotics, AI, & Humanity: Science, Ethics, & Policy. Springer. In Press.
- “Care Ethics, Philosophy of Technology, & Robots in Humanitarian Action” (2020). In: Vallor, S. (ed), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology. Oxford University Press. In Press.
- “Toward an Ethics of Environmental Robotics” (2020). Philosophy & Technology. In Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-020-00399-3 (with Donhauser, J.)
- “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.)
- “Socioethical Approaches to Robotics Development” (2018). IEEE Robotics Automation Magazine, 25(1), 26–28. DOI: 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/wpcontent/uploads/2018/06/Drones-in-the-Service-of-Society1.pdf (with Soesilo, D. et al.)
- “Our Sexual Future with Robots” (2017). Foundation for Responsible Robotics. https://responsiblerobotics.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/FRR-ConsultationReport-Our-Sexual-Future-with-robots_Final.pdf (with Sharkey, N. et al.)
- “Service Robots, Care Ethics, and Design” (2016). Ethics and Information Technology 18(4). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-016-9409-x
- “When Should We Use Care Robots? The Nature-of-Activities Approach” (2016). Science and Engineering Ethics, 22(6), 1745–1760. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-015-9715-4 (with Santoni de Sio, F.)
- “Adapting the system to users based on implicit data: ethical risks and possible solutions” (2016). In Gamberini et al. (Hg.), International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction, Symbiotic Interaction, 5–22. Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57753-1_2 (with Spagnolli, A. et al.)
- “Civilising Drones by Design” (2015). In Di Nucci, E. und Santoni de Sio, F. (Hg.), Drones and Responsibility. Ashgate Publishers. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315578187-9 (with Nagenborg, M.)
- “Charting the next decade for value sensitive design” (2015). Aarhus series on human centered computing, 1(1), 9-10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/aahcc.v1i1.21619 (with Friedman, B. et al.)
- “Ethical Considerations of using information obtained from online file sharing sites: the case of the PirateBay” (2015). Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 13: 256 – 267. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-10-2014-0044
Recent Events
- 2020 (Aug): “Social Robots to Sustain Reciprocity”, Keynote Speaker, RoboPhilosophy. https://youtu.be/xoTq0-XFTy4
- 2020 (Jul): “Accountable AI Solutions”, Panelist, AI 4 Good Global Summit. https://www.coe.int/en/web/artificial-intelligence/-/council-of-europe-participatingin-the-panel-on-accountable-ai-solutions-of-the-ai-for-good-global-summit-2020
- 2019 (Oct): “How to create a coherent, national level AI Strategy”, Panelist, World Summit AI. https://worldsummit.ai/
- 2019 (Oct): “Artificial Intelligence, Mental Health, and Ethics”, Keynote Speaker, Mental Health Research Day. https://www.lawsonresearch.ca/events/mental-health-research-innovationday
- 2019 (July): “The Cycle of Women in Robotics: from Vicious to Virtuous”, Keynote Speaker, Italy Campus Party. https://italia.campus-party.org/speakers/
- 2019 (June): “What Comes first; the robot or the care?”, Invited Speaker, Ethical challenges of mechanization of care, German Ethics Council. https://www.ethikrat.org/jahrestagungen/pflege-roboter-ethik-ethischeherausforderungen-der-technisierung-der-pflege/
- 2019 (May): Speaker at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Robotics, AI, and Humanity: Science, Ethics, and Policy Workshop, Vatican City.
- 2019 (May): “Implementation of the European strategy on Artificial Intelligence”, Invited Panelist, AiParis Conference, Paris, FR.
- 2019 (Apr): “The role of Ethics in Europe’s AI Ethics Guidelines”, Invited Panelist, Digital Day, European Commission.
- 2019 (Mar): “Is AI a Human Rights Issue?”, Invited Panelist, European Parliament.
- 2019 (Feb): “The Ethics and Accountability of AI”, Invited Panelist x2, Mobile World Congress 2019, Barcelona, SP.
- 2018 (Dec): “Ethics of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence”, Keynote Speaker, PWC Ethics in the Boardroom Event, Amsterdam, NL.
- 2018 (Nov): “Ethics, Healthcare, and Robotics”, Keynote Speaker, AMS Phoenix Conference, Toronto, CA.
- 2018 (Nov): “Fireside Chat with Paul Michelman on Robot Ethics”, Invited speaker, Web Summit, Lisbon, PT.
- 2018 (Oct): “Technology in Healthcare”, Invited Panelist x2, Connected Health Conference, Boston, USA.
- 2018 (Oct): “Ethics of Robots and Artificial Intelligence”, Keynote Speaker, Deloitte Women in STEAM event, Leiden, NL.
- 2018 (Sep): “Regulating the Robots: the Ghost in the Smart Machine”, Invited Speaker, The Economist’s Innovation Summit: building the intelligent company”, London, UK.
- 2018 (Aug): “Responsible AI for a future worth wanting”, Keynote address, IT Web, Artificial Intelligence Workshop, ZA.
- 2018 (July): “The Ethics of Robots in Humanitarian Aid”, Conference speaker, University of Sendai, JP.
- 2018 (May): “Ethics to Inspire Innovation in AI”, Invited Speaker, AI for Good, Geneva, CH.
- 2018 (May): “What could be tomorrow's issues on Accountability and Internet Democracy”, Panelist, The Hague Summit on Accountability and Internet Democracy, Peace Palace, The Hague, NL.
- 2018 (Apr): “AI may be a black box but the Ethical Issues resulting from AI are not.” Invited speaker, Deloitte, Arnhem, NL.
- 2018 (Feb): “More data, More Problems”, Keynote speaker, ABN-AMRO WTT Insights Live, Rotterdam, NL.
- 2018 (Feb): “Be adaptable, take risks”. Commencement address, ATLAS program University of Twente, class of 2017.
Interviews:
- 2019 (May): AI for Good Global Summit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afTHneCow2Q
- 2019 (May): Dutch IT Channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=110&v=E1R3E671RR8
- 2019 (Apr): European Commission Digital Day 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwYxwyiAtHo&t=8s
- 2018 (Oct): Healthcare Information and Management Society (HIMSS). http://himsstv.brightcovegallery.com/detail/videos/latestvideos/video/5989112071001/robotics-giving-rise-to-ethical-healthcare-issues?autoStart=true
- 2018 (May): AI for Good Global Summit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=PM9AOxVIvws
Awards, Grants and Distinctions
- 2020 NWO, Gravitation Grant, 200,000 Euros
- 2019 Viva 400, Nominated for ‘Tech Talent’
- 2019 AirLab/Ahold Delhaize, Collaboration Grant, 250,000 Euros
- 2019 Deloitte, Centre for the Edge Fellowship
- 2019 InspiringFifty, Inspiring Female in Tech
- 2019 Computer Weekly, Most Influential Women in Tech (longlisted)
- 2018 L’Oreal-Unesco, Women in Science Laureate (NL), 25,000 Euros
- 2018 British Academy, Small Research Grant, 9000 GBP
- 2017 Robohub, Women to Know in Robotics
- 2017 Techionista, Women in Tech award (nominated)
- 2015 NWO, Veni Personal Research Grant, 250,000 Euros
- 2015 UTwente, Female Incentive Fund Scholarship, 15,000 Euros
- 2015 Viva 400, Nominated as a “Clever Head”
- 2012 Georges Giralt, Award for Best PhD thesis in Robotics (nominated)
- 2011 Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, PhD Carousel Award
