Aimee van Wynsberghe
Humboldt Professor of Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence University of BonnFoundation for Responsible RoboticsPhoto and Bio
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Aimee van Wynsberghe has been working in ICT and robotics since 2004. She began her career as part of a research team working with surgical robots in Canada at CSTAR (Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advance Robotics). She is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bonn in Germany. Aimee is co-founder and co-director of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics and on the board of the Institute for Accountability in a Digital Age. She is a 2018 L'Oreal Unesco 'For Women in Science' laureate. Aimee also serves as a member of the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on AI and is a founding board member of the Netherlands AI Alliance. She is a founding editor for the international peer-reviewed journal AI & Ethics (Springer Nature) and a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Futures Council on Artificial Intelligence and Humanity. Aimee has been named one of the Netherlands top 400 influential women under 38 by VIVA and was named one of the 25 ‘women in robotics you need to know about’. She is author of the book Healthcare Robots: Ethics, Design, and Implementation and has been awarded an NWO personal research grant to study how we can responsibly design service robots. She has been interviewed by BBC, Quartz, Financial Times, and other International news media on the topic of ethics and robots, and is often invited to speak at International conferences and summits.
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Editorial Board of new Springer Nature Journal “AI and Ethics”
Aimee has accepted an invitation to be on the editorial board of the Springer Nature journal AI and Ethics. This new journal aims to: promote informed debate and discussion of the ethical, regulatory, and policy implications that arise from the development of AI. It...

WISE Blog: The cycle of women in robotics: from vicious to virtuous
Aimee wrote a blog post as part of a series on women in STEM. The series was made up of contributors from the Women in Science and Engineering Conference 2019. Check out the post here.

Aimee featured on the Insights on Responsible Business Podcast
She is interviewed by Sir Rob Wainwright about "Why ethics matter for responsible business". Check it out here.

VIVA 400 List
Aimee has once again been named as one of the 400 women in the Netherlands who are "successful, matter, and make a difference". You can vote for her in the category of 'Tech Talent' here: https://www.viva.nl/viva400/techtalenten/.

Interview in Verdict AI Magazine
Aimee was interviewed by Rob Scammell for and featured extensively in an article for Verdict AI Magazine (Winter 2019 Edition). You can find the article here.

Mental Health Research Day (London, ON)
Today Aimee was in London, Ontario delivering a keynote for the Mental Health Research Day put on by the Lawson Health Research Institute and St. Joseph's Healthcare.
Media
Holland Herald Interview
Aimee is featured in the 'Business Lunch' section of the Holland Herald this month. If you are flying on a KLM flight you can see it in the in flight magazine. Or check it out online here. Or you can download a PDF version here.
AI 4 Good Interview
Aimee gave an interview after her keynote address at AI 4 Good in Geneva, Switzerland. Check out the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afTHneCow2Q
AI 4 Good Main Stage
Today Aimee gave a talk about the FRR's Quality Mark for AI & Robotics.
Keynote for Deloitte Towhnall
Today Aimee gave a keynote to 2500 Deloitte employees for their annual Townhall event.
Future of Business Technology Keynote
Today Aimee gave a keynote at the Omniversum in the Hague for the Dutch IT Channel's Future of Business Technology event. https://youtu.be/E1R3E671RR8?t=110
Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Keynote
Today Aimee gave a keynote at the for the WISE conference in London, UK.
EU Commission Ethics Guidelines Presentation
Today Aimee was at the EU Commission in Brussels to present the High Level Expert Group on AI's "Ethics Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence" which were released today.
Interview in Forbes
Aimee was interviewed for Forbes about machine ethics. Find the article here. "You can use ethics as a way to stimulate new kinds of innovation, but you can only do that when you have someone whose main role is ethics, as a member of the design team, and they’re there...
Women in AI Event (Amsterdam, NL)
On International women's day, Women in AI (WAI) held an event in which Aimee moderated a panel including Christina Calje (@ChrisCalj), Fadoa Shureur (@Fadoa_S) Una Verhoeven (@unaverhoeven) Wendy Geeraert (@WGeeraert), and Eve Logunova (@eve_logunova). Check out the...
Critiquing the Reasons for Making Artificial Moral Agents (2018)
The Dawning of the Ethics of Environmental Robots (2017)
Service Robots, Ethics, and Design (2016)
Designing robots for care: Care centered value-sensitive design (2013)
Ethicist as Designer: a pragmatic approach to ethics in the lab (2014)
Book: Healthcare Robots (Ashgate, 2015)

Telesurgery: An Ethical Appraisal (2008)
Affiliations
Bonn University
Role: Humboldt Full Professor (Chair of Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence)
Paid: Yes
NDA: No
Foundation for Responsible Robotics
Role: Co-Founder & President
Paid: No
NDA: No
European Commission
Role: Member of High-Level Expert Group on AI
Paid: No
NDA: No
ALLAI (Alliance for AI in the Netherlands)
Role: Board Member
Paid: No
NDA: No
Institute for Accountability in a Digital Age
Role: Board Member
Paid: No
NDA: No
Current Funding
Humboldt Foundation
Grant Name: Humboldt Professorship
Type: Personal Research Grant
Amount: 3.5 Million Euros
Paid To:Bonn University