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Chair of Theory and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Alexander von Humboldt Professorship)

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Björn Lundgren received his PhD 2018 from the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) and has since worked at various institutions such as the Institute for Futures Studies, Umeå University, and Utrecht University, on projects ranging from information ethics and risks, to ethics of artificial intelligence and methodological questions of doing philosophy and ethics (of technology) in particular. At PAIR, Lundgren is continuing his work on AI ethics, with a focus on aspects relating to information ethics and methods of doing AI ethics.

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  • Lundgren, Björn (forthcoming). No value alignment without control. AI and Ethics.
  • Lundgren, Björn. & Nuñez Hernández, Nancy Abigail (forthcoming). Is automated therapy dignified Philosophy of AI.
  • Anderson, J., Hopster, J., and Lundgren, B. 2026. Defining Socially Disruptive Technologies and Reframing the Ethical Challenges They Pose. Technology in Society. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2026.103216.
  • Lundgren, Björn. 2025. The Risk of Surveillance Capitalism. Philosophy & Technology 38, 174. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-025-00983-5
  • Lundgren, Björn. 2025. Review of Norbert Paulo and Lando Kirchmair, Moral Dilemmas Involving Self-Driving Cars: How to Regulate Them and Why Your Opinion Matters (New York: Routledge, 2025), x + 90pp, $37.49. Law and Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10982-025-09549-0
  • Lundgren, Björn. (2025). Teaching Trade-offs in a Digital Ethics Course. Teaching Ethics, 24(2), 257–265. https://doi.org/10.5840/tej202579163
  • Lundgren, Björn & Stefánsson, H. Orri. (2025). Can the Normic de minimis Expected Utility Theory save the de minimis Principle?. Erkenntnis 90, 1255–1263. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-023-00751-x
  • Lundgren, Björn. (2025). Can Deepfakes Violate an Individual’s Moral Right to Privacy?. Ethical Theory Moral Practice. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-025-10514-y
  • Lundgren, Björn. (2025). How social should AI be? Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-025-01005-8
  • Marchiori, Samuela; Hopster, Jeroen K.; Puzio, Anna.; van Riemsdijk, M. Birna; Kraaijeveld, Steven R.; Lundgren, Björn; Viehoff, Juri; and Lily E. Frank (2025). A Social Disruptiveness-Based Approach to AI Governance: Complementing the Risk-Based Approach of the AI Act. Science and Engineering Ethics 31 (25). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-025-00545-0
  • Lundgren, Björn. On the Limits of the Data Economy: The Case of Autonomous Vehicles. Science and Engineering Ethics 31 (16). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-025-00540-5
  • Lundgren, Björn (2025). God and the Possibility of a Moral Right to Privacy. SOPHIA 64, 339–344. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-024-01057-3