Chelsea Haramia Editor

Professor Markus Gabriel has held the Chair of Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Bonn since 2009. Since 2017, he has served as Director of the multidisciplinary Center for Science and Thought. He has held visiting positions and fellowships at institutions including University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, New York University, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, University of Lisbon, University of Porto, and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Since 2024, he has served as Senior Global Advisor at the Kyoto Institute of Philosophy, and since 2025 as Specially Appointed Professor at the Kyoto University Institute for the Future of Human Society. Dr Chelsea Haramia is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Science and Thought at the University of Bonn, Germany, working on the Desirable AI project. She is also co-Director of the Discovery and Futures Lab at the SETI Institute, Chair of the SETI Post-Detection Hub's Human Factors Working Group, and co-Editor of the journal 1000-Word Philosophy. Her former positions include Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Gender Studies Program at Spring Hill College, USA. She earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy and a graduate certificate in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Professor Aimee van Wynsberghe is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for the Applied Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the University of Bonn. She is director of the Institute for Science and Ethics (IWE) and founder of the Bonn Sustainable AI Lab. Professor van Wynsberghe is author of the book Healthcare Robots: Ethics, Design and Implementation and founding editor for the international peer-reviewed journal AI & Ethics (Springer Nature). She is the series editor of a new Springer Nature book series 'Philosophy and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence'.