Values for a Post pandemic Future : Ethics, Technology, and the New Normal

Matthew J. Dennis

Matthew J. Dennis is a philosopher of technology, specialising in the ethics of artificial intelligence and persuasive technology. His recent publications focus on how we can live well with emerging technologies (data-driven algorithms, recommender systems, virtual assistants, self-care apps), as well as how our digital well-being is affected by gender, income, and intercultural factors. Recently he has published articles in Journal of Value Inquiry, Philosophy & Technology, Ethics & Information Technology, Science & Engineering Ethics, Journal of Moral Education, and Journal of Social Epistemology. His article, 'Towards a Theory of Digital Well-Being', won the TU/e Postdoctoral Article Prize (2021). He is the co-editor of two topical collections of Ethics and Information Technology (on COVID-19 technologies and on the ethics of algorithmic hiring). Currently, he is a Research Fellow in Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDiT) at TU Eindhoven (2021–2024) with visiting positions at the University of Oxford's Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence and at University of Amsterdam's Institute for Advanced Studies. Prior to this, he was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at TU Delft (2019–21). 

Georgy Ishmaev 

Georgy Ishmaev is a postdoctoral researcher at Distributed Systems section of  Software Development department of TU Delft. His current areas of research include decentralised systems, data ethics, identity management systems, and privacy.  He is also a co-editor for the topical collection of Ethics and Information Technology journal – "Ethics of Information Technology in the COVID-19 Crisis."

Steven Umbrello

Steven Umbrello currently serves as the ManagingDirector at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (501c3 non-profit, Boston, MA) and a postdoctoral research fellow at TU Delft. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Technoethics, the Managing Editor of the Journal of Responsible Technology, and the book reviews editor for Prometheus - critical studies in innovation. Currently, his main area of research revolves around Value Sensitive Design (VSD), its philosophical foundation as well as its potential application to emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and Industry 4.0 

Jeroen van den Hoven

Jeroen van den Hoven is university professor and full professor of Ethics and Technology at Delft University of Technology and editor in chief of Ethics and Information Technology. He is currently the scientific director of the Delft Design for Values Institute. He was the founding scientific director of 4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology (2007-2013). In 2009, he won the World Technology Award for Ethics as well as the IFIP prize for ICT and Society for his work in Ethics and ICT. Jeroen van den Hoven was founder, and until 2016 Programme Chair, of the program of theDutch Research Council on Responsible Innovation. He published Designing in Ethics (Van den Hoven, Miller & Pogge eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Evil Online (Cocking & Van den Hoven, Blackwell, 2018) He is a permanent member of the European Group on Ethics (EGE) to the European Commission. In 2017 he was knighted in the Order of the Lion of The Netherlands.