Dr. Benjamin Lange

Personal Information

Benjamin Lange leads a junior research group in the ethics of AI, based at the professorship of AI ethics and the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). He is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Institute for Practical Ethics, and a member of the Center for Ethics and Philosophy in Practice (ZEPP) at LMU. In the past, he was a Visiting Researcher in the Responsible Innovation and AI Ethics Team at Google and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Hamburg. Benjamin received his PhD in Moral Philosophy from St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, and before that his M.Phil in Philosophy, also from the University of Oxford, and his BSc. in Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on normative and practical ethics, business ethics, and the ethics of AI and technology.

Research Interests

Benjamin's research focuses on all things ethics, including normative ethics, the ethics of AI and technology, business ethics, as well as practical ethics and medical ethics.

Publications

1. (2024). “Moral Imagination for Engineering Teams: The Technomoral Scenario.” The International Review of Information Ethics 34 (1). (with Geoff Keeling, Amanda McCroskery, Kyle Pedersen, David Weinberger, and Ben Zevenbergen)
2. (2024). “A Framework for Assurance Audits of Algorithmic Systems.” In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’24), 1078–92. Association for Computing Machinery. (with Khoa Lam, Borhane Blili-Hamelin, Jovana Davidovic, Shea Brown, and Ali Hasan)
3. (2024). “The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants.” arXiv Preprint arXiv:2404.16244. (with Iason Gabriel, Arianna Manzini, Geoff Keeling, Lisa Anne Hendricks, Verena Rieser, Hasan Iqbal, Nenad Tomašev, et al.)
4. (2024). “A Project View of the Right to Parent.” Journal of Applied Philosophy 41 (5): 804-826.
5. (2024). “Partiality and Meaning.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 1–27.
6. (2024). “Partiality, Asymmetries, and Morality’s Harmonious Propensity.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 109 (1): 30–54. (with Joshua Brandt).
7. (2024). “The Impact of Intelligent Decision-Support Systems on Humans’ Ethical Decision-Making: A Systematic Literature Review and an Integrated Framework.” Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 1–19. (with Franziska Poszler)
8. (2023). “Engaging Engineering Teams Through Moral Imagination: A Bottom-Up Approach for Responsible Innovation and Ethical Culture Change in Technology Companies.” AI and Ethics. (with Amanda McCroskery, Ben Zevenbergen, Geoff Keeling, Sandra Blascovich, Kyle Pedersen, and Alison Lentz)
9. (2022). “Algorithmic Bias and Risk Assessments: Lessons from Practice.” Digital Society 1 (2): 14. (with Ali Hasan, Shea Brown, Jovana Davidovic, and Mitt Regan)
10. (2021). “Combating Disinformation with AI: Epistemic and Ethical Challenges.” In 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), 1–5. IEEE. (with Theodore M. Lechterman)