The 2025 Oxford Berlin colloquium on AI ethics was held in Oxford in January 2025 and brought together scholars and professionals to discuss a variety of topics, hosted by Dr Caroline Green (Oxford) and Dr Luise Muller (Freie Universitat Berlin).
AI technologies, from large language models to self-driving cars, raise fundamental philosophical questions. The aim of the Oxford Berlin colloquium on AI ethics was to connect early career researchers in the ethics of AI, offering a platform to present work, receive feedback, and exchange ideas with leading researchers and professionals from industry and policy. The colloquium recognised that researchers can approach AI ethics from various disciplines, including philosophy, theology, law, sociology, political science, computer science, and psychology.
Further details below:
- 20 January Colloquium: Agenda and Speakers. A write-up is available here, written by Doctoral Candidate Helena Ward.
- 21 January Workshop: Agenda and Speakers. A write-up is also available here, written by Doctoral Candidate Helena Ward.
The Institute for Ethics in AI will bring together world-leading philosophers and other experts in the humanities with the technical developers and users of AI in academia, business and government. The ethics and governance of AI is an exceptionally vibrant area of research at Oxford and the Institute is an opportunity to take a bold leap forward from this platform.
Every day brings more examples of the ethical challenges posed by AI; from face recognition to voter profiling, brain machine interfaces to weaponised drones, and the ongoing discourse about how AI will impact employment on a global scale. This is urgent and important work that we intend to promote internationally as well as embedding in our own research and teaching here at Oxford.
Photo gallery of the event (photographer Ian Wallman):
Hosted by
Dr Caroline Green is the Head of Public Engagement and an Early Career Research Fellow at the Institute and Research Fellow at Reuben College. Caroline's work focuses on AI and human rights, specifically in the fields of health and social care. Caroline holds a LLB (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh, an MSc in Human Rights from the LSE, a MA in Investigative Journalism from City University and a PhD in Gerontology from King's College London. Prior to joining the Institute she worked as a ARC South London post-doctoral Research Fellow at King's College London.
Dr Luise Muller is a postdoctoral researcher (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the philosophy department of Freie Universität Berlin. Before that, Luise was visiting professor (Vertretungsprofessorin) at Humboldt-Universität and Universität Hamburg.
Luise teaches mainly in political & moral philosophy and practical ethics. Current themes in her work are relational egalitarianism, emerging technologies, animal justice, (human) rights, political legitimacy, punishment, and international criminal justice.
Luise co-edits the Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur, a peer-reviewed open access online journal specializing in German-language reviews of academic philosophy books.