20 January 2025
The Oxford-Berlin Colloquium on AI Ethics 2025 is scheduled to take place in Oxford this January. The event will gather scholars and professionals for a comprehensive discourse on various topics, and will be hosted by Dr Caroline Green (Oxford) and Dr Luise Muller (Freie Universität Berlin).
We are delighted to share the biographies of the speakers for the colloquium on 20 January:
Dr Caroline Emmer De Albuquerque Green, Dr Luise Müller and Professor Alastair Buchan - Welcome from 10.20am
Dr Caroline Green is the Director of Research at the Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on AI and human rights, specifically in the fields of health and social care. Caroline holds an LLB (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh, an MSc in Human Rights from the LSE, an MA in Investigative Journalism from City University, and a PhD in Gerontology from King's College London.
Dr Luise Müller is a postdoctoral researcher at the philosophy department of Freie Universität Berlin. Before that, she was a visiting professor at Humboldt-Universität and Universität Hamburg. Luise teaches mainly in political and moral philosophy and practical ethics. Current themes in her work include relational egalitarianism, emerging technologies, animal justice, human rights, political legitimacy, punishment, and international criminal justice. She co-edits the Zeitschrift für philosophische Literatur, a peer-reviewed open-access online journal specializing in German-language reviews of academic philosophy books.
Professor Alastair Buchan is the Founding Director of the Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership. He has played a pivotal role in fostering collaborations between Oxford and Berlin institutions, enhancing research and academic exchanges across various disciplines.
Professor Dr Alena Buyx and Dr David Storrs-Fox presenting Aligning AI with ethical and social values at 10.45pm
Professor Dr Alena Buyx is Professor of Ethics in Medicine and Health Technologies and Director of the Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine at Technical University of Munich. Professor Buyx is a medical doctor with degrees in philosophy and sociology. Her research spans the whole field of biomedical and public health ethics and questions of solidarity and justice. In addition to research and teaching, Professor Buyx is active in the political and regulatory aspects of biomedical ethics, sitting on several high-level national and international ethics bodies concerned with policy development and implementation. She was a member of the German Ethics Council from 2016 to 2024 and chaired it from 2020 to 2024. Since April 2024, she serves as a member of the German Federal Government's Expert Council on Health and Resilience.
Dr David Storrs-Fox is an Early Career Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford, and a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College. He is also a Lecturer in Philosophy at St Catherine's College and a Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics in Technology, Hamburg University of Technology. David received his PhD in Philosophy from New York University, where he also worked as a Lecturer.
Professor John Tasioulas and Professor Max Kiener presenting Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: From Threat to Promise? at 12pm
Professor John Tasioulas is the Director of the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford. He has degrees in Law and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne and a D.Phil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. His research covers a wide range of topics in moral, legal, and political philosophy, with a current emphasis on the ethical implications of artificial intelligence.
Professor Max Kiener is associated with the TU Hamburg Institute for Ethics in Technology. His research interests include ethical theory, moral responsibility, and the ethical dimensions of technological innovation.
Professor Dr Verena Hafner and Dr Linda Eggert presenting Embodied AI and the Artificial Self at 1:45pm
Professor Dr Verena Hafner is Head of the Adaptive Systems Group at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She holds a Master’s degree with distinction in Computer Science and AI from the University of Sussex, a PhD from the AI Lab at the University of Zurich, and has worked as an associate researcher in the Developmental Robotics Group at Sony CSL in Paris. She is part of the Programme Committee of the DFG Priority Programme "The Active Self", PI in the DFG Cluster of Excellence "Science of Intelligence”, and PI in the EU project METATOOL. Her research interests include sensorimotor interaction and learning, joint attention, and the artificial self.
Dr Linda Eggert is an Early Career Fellow in Philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford. Her work spans topics in moral, political, and legal philosophy, mainly addressing issues in normative and practical ethics and theories of justice. Linda is especially interested in duties to rescue and the ethics of other-defence, issues in non-consequentialist ethics, and global and rectificatory justice.
Professor Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Professor Nathalie Smuha, Professor Yuval Shany, and Ms. Victoria Adelmant presenting Taking stock of AI regulation at 3pm
Professor Jeremias Adams-Prassl is a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on technology, innovation policy, and the future of work in the European Union and beyond. He is a Fellow of Magdalen College. Jeremias read law at Oxford, Paris, and Harvard Law School, and has held visiting teaching and/or research positions at institutions including Hong Kong University, the Max Planck Institute Hamburg, Renmin Law School Beijing, the European New School of Digital Studies, University College London, the University of Vienna, and Yale Law School.
Professor Nathalie Smuha is a legal scholar and philosopher at the KU Leuven Faculty of Law, where she examines legal and ethical questions around digital technologies and their impact on human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. She is also Adjunct Professor at NYU School of Law and formerly held visiting positions at the University of Chicago (2023) and the University of Birmingham (2021).
Professor Yuval Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law and former Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee from 2013 to 2020, serving as its Chair between 2018-2019. He currently serves as a senior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, as head of the CyberLaw programme of the Hebrew University CyberSecurity Research Centre, and as Visiting Fellow at the Ethics in AI Institute in Oxford.
Victoria Adelmant is the Director of the Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project at New York University School of Law. Her research focuses on governments’ introduction of digital technologies into public services, examining the public law and human rights implications of public sector “digital transformation.” She taught courses on digital technologies and human rights as an Adjunct Professor at NYU for several years, and is now a Doctoral Student in Law at the University of Oxford, as a Clarendon Scholar and Resident of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. She is also a Visiting Fellow at Lund University in Sweden. Her work has been published in the Journal of Human Rights Practice, Public Law, and is forthcoming in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.
Read the full agenda of the 20 January colloquium for further details.