Mark Coeckelbergh (born 1975) is a Belgian philosopher of technology. He is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna.[1] He currently holds the ERA Chair at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague[2] and is Guest Professor at WASP-HS and University of Uppsala.[3]
He is a member of national and international committees with direct impact on policy and contributes to public discourse on these topics in the popular press.
In 2003 he started teaching at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands and in 2007 he was assistant professor at the Philosophy Department of the University of Twente,also in the Netherlands.[7] In the same year he received the Prize of the Dutch Society for Bioethics (with J. Mesman).[8] In Twente he started working on the ethics of robotics. In 2013 he became Managing Director of the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology.[7] In 2014 he was appointed full professor at the Centre of Computing and Social Responsibility,De Montfort University in Leicester,UK,a position he held through early 2019.[7] In 2014 and 2017 he was nominated for the World Technology Awards in the Ethics category.[9] In 2015 he joined the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna as full Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology.[1]
Coeckelbergh has membership in numerous domestic and international committees with direct impact on policyis a member of the Expert Council Ethics of AI of the Austrian Unesco Commission,[11] He previously served as a member of the High Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence for the European Commission,[12] the Austrian robotics council (Rat für Robotik),inaugurated by the Austrian Ministry for Transport,Innovation and Technology,and a member of the Austrian Advisory Council on Automated Mobility.
Outreach
Coeckelbergh has published opinion articles in The Guardian,[13] Neue Zürcher Zeitung,[14] De Morgen,[15] De Standaard,[16] Der Standard,[17] and Wired;[18] co-authored opinion articles have appeared in La Libre,[19] Morgenbladet,[20] and Der Tagesspiegel,[21] among others.
Coeckelbergh has also been interviewed or served as expert for articles published in Christian Science Monitor,[22] CNN,[23] De Morgen,[24] De Standaard,[25] De Tijd,[26] Der Spiegel,[27] Der Standard,[28] Die Presse,[29] El Independiente,[30] El Mundo,[31] El País,[32] Folha de S. Paulo,[33] Handelsblatt,[34] Infobae,[35] Neue Zürcher Zeitung,[36] Salzburger Nachrichten,[37] The New Yorker,[38] The Sydney Morning Herald,[39] The Times,[40] and others.
Research
Following his articles on robot ethics and his book Growing Moral Relations,[41] Coeckelbergh has been attributed a 'relational turn' in thinking about moral status.[42] In his articles Coeckelbergh argues for a phenomenological and relational approach.
His book AI Ethics is a popular introduction to the topic and has been widely praised.[43][44]
In his recent work he has argued for more cultural approaches to the meaning of technology that bring out technologies' “grammar”or conditions of possibility[45][46] and for using political philosophy to better understand the politics of AI.[47][48][49]
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