Prof. Dr. Vincent Cornelius Müller

Vincent Müller is AvH Professor for Philosophy and Ethics of AI and Director of the Centre for Philosophy and AI Research (PAIR) at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg – as well as President of the European Society for Cognitive Systems, Chair of the Society for the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, and Chair of the euRobotics topics group on ‘ethical, legal and socio-economic issues’. Previously, he was Professor at the Technical University of Eindhoven (2019-22) and at Anatolia College/ACT in Thessaloniki (1998-2019), Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in London (2018-22), University Academic Fellow at the University of Leeds (2016-22), James Martin Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (2011-15) and Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University (2005-6). Müller studied philosophy with cognitive science, linguistics and history at the universities of Marburg, Hamburg, London and Oxford.

Recent Publications

• Müller, V. C. (2026). Short‐Term or Long‐Term AI Ethics? A Dilemma for Ethical Singularity Only. Contemporary Debates in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, 309-318.
• Müller, V. C. (2026). Ethics of artificial intelligence and robotics. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2nd edition 2026). CSLI, Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-ai/ 
• Müller, V. C. (2025). Deep Opacity in AI: A Threat to XAI and Standard Privacy Protection Mechanisms. A Companion to Applied Philosophy of AI, 71-81.
• Müller, V. C. (2025). Philosophy of AI: A structured overview. A Companion to Applied Philosophy of AI, CUP, 14-30.
• Müller, V. C., & Hähnel, M. (2024). Was ist, was kann, was soll KI?: Ein philosophisches Gespräch. Felix Meiner Verlag.