Our speaker, Dr. Patrick Lin, is the director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group, based at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he is a philosophy professor. He also currently serves on the US National Space Council’s Users Advisory Group and is affiliated with Stanford Law School, Czech Academy of Sciences, World Economic Forum, Aurelia Institute, and other leading organisations. He is a leading authority in technology ethics—including on frontier development (esp. outer space and the Arctic), AI, robotics, cybersecurity, bioengineering, nanotechnology, security technologies, and more—and is regularly invited to provide briefings on the subject to industry, media, and government. Currently, Dr. Lin is the principal investigator on two ethics projects funded by the US National Science Foundation, one on outer space cybersecurity (SaTC program) and the other on AI and robot ethics (NRI 3.0 program).

Does Robot Have a Soul?

Karel Čapek Symposium on the Ethics in Robotics and AI
21. 11. 2021

At he invitation of the Czech Center, Tokyo, Karel Čapek Center for Values in Science and Technology holds an online one-day symposium at Miraikan, the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, Japan.

Kathryn Francis, Measuring Morality with Immersive Technology

Institute of State & Law, 7th floor, Národní 18, Prague
29. 11. 2019

Dr. Kathryn Francis is Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Bradford, UK. Prior to this, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Psychology and Philosophy at the University of Reading, UK. Her interests lie at the intersection of psychology and philosophy, predominantly in moral cognition. She adopts interdisciplinary approaches to the investigation of cognitive and social phenomena.