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.
Upcoming Events
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World Summit AI 2019 (Amsterdam)
Today Aimee moderated a panel ("How to create a coherent, national level AI Strategy") at World Summit AI featuring NL State Secretary Mona Keijzer, the former Vice President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes, and Junior Minister of Financial Services, Digital...

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
Media
Trustworthy AI Keyword Game
For the leadup to the release of the High Level Expert Group on AI for the European Commission they filmed a few of us talking about keywords associated with Trustworthy AI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imv9SG-zfkU
AMS Phoenix Panel “Preparing for the Tech Revolution in Healthcare”
Video for my panel at the AMS Phoenix Conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxn9lBOaCTg
HIMSS Interview
Below is the interview Aimee gave to the Healthcare Information and Management Society (HIMSS) during the Connected Health conference which took place in Boston, MA in October 2018 [video width="1280" height="720"...
AMS Pheonix Conference
Aimee gave a keynote lecture on Ethics, Healthcare, and Robotics for the AMS Phoenix conference in Toronto. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0WEDgaCMLE
Proud Recipient of the L’Oreal Unesco ‘For Women in Science’ Award!
Aimee was named one of the 2018 L'Oreal Unesco 'For Women in Science' laureates along with Liesbeth van Vliet. The awards ceremony took place last night at the beautiful Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities building. See the amazing video they put together...
Ringing the Euronext Gong to Commence Trading!
This morning Aimee was in Amsterdam ringing the Euronext gong with fellow "For Women in Science" award winner Liesbeth van Vliet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD-dCEWlTYU
Quoted in Scientific American
I am quoted as being skeptical of the Nature study regarding people's preferences for autonomous cars. The study really only uses autonomous cars to reveal previously known human biases. The study should say nothing about how we develop autonomous cars. Check out the...
Brainstorm Magazine (print and web) Interview & Article
The article "Brave new world: Dr Aimee van Wynsberghe straddles the worlds of science and ethics, and is shaping the conversations of both." has just been posted online. It is also available in the print magazine. From the article: [Dr. van Wynsberghe] reckons that...
Interview with NOS
I was interviewed by NOS (Dutch) for an article on sex robots. You can find the article here.
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