Prof. Dr. Sven Nyholm

Professor

Professorship of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Office address:

Akademiestraße 7

Room 201

80799 Munich

Office hours:

By appointment

Postal address:

Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1

80539 Munich

Personal Information

Sven Nyholm is Professor of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Principal Investigator of AI Ethics at the Munich Center for Machine Learning, and co-editor of the journal Science and Engineering Ethics. His research and teaching encompass applied ethics (particularly, but not exclusively, ethics of artificial intelligence), practical philosophy, and philosophy of technology. Currently, he is working on his fourth book, which will be about the ethics of artificial intelligence. His previous books were concerned with Kantian ethics, the ethics of human-robot interactions and the ethics of technology.

Curriculum Vitae

2023 -
Professor of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, LMU Munich
2022 - 2023
Associate Professor, Philosophy, Utrecht University, Netherlands
2019 - 2022
Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Utrecht University, Netherlands
2015 - 2019
Assistant Professor, Philosophy, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
2012 - 2015
Research Associate, Practical Philosophy, University of Cologne
2012
Doctorate in Philosophy, University of Michigan, USA
2000 - 2005
Studied Philosophy and Music (BA) and Practical Philosophy (MA)

Selected Publications

  1. Nyholm, S.: This is Technology Ethics: An Introduction. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023.
  2. Nyholm, S.: Humans and Robots: Ethics, Agency, and Anthropomorphism. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020.
  3. Nyholm, S.: Revisiting Kant’s Universal Law and Humanity Formulas. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015.
  4. Gordon, J.S. & Nyholm, S.: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2021).
  5. Nyholm, S. & Smids, J.: The Ethics of Accident-Algorithms for Self-Driving Cars: An Applied Trolley Problem? Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 19(5): 1275-1289 (2016).
  6. Campbell, S. & Nyholm, S.: Anti-Meaning and Why it Matters. Journal of the American Philosophical Association 1(4): 694-711 (2015).
  7. Porsdam Mann, S., Earp, B., Nyholm, S. et al. Generative AI Entails a Credit-Blame Asymmetry. Nature Machine Intelligence 5(5): 472-475 (2023).
  8. Nyholm, S.: Love Troubles: Human Attachment and Biomedical Enhancements. Journal of Applied Philosophy 32(2): 190-202
  9. Smids, J., Nyholm, S., & Berkers, H.: Robots in the Workplace: A Threat to – or Opportunity for – Meaningful Work? Philosophy & Technology 33(3): 503-522 (2020).
  10. Nyholm, S.: Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement: Can AI Technologies Make Us More (Artificially) Intelligent? Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 33(1): 76-88 (2024).

Teaching

Prof. Nyholm's current courses can be found on LSF.

If you wish to write a thesis (BA or MA) under Prof. Nyholm's supervision, please contact him via e-mail, including a few sentences outlining the planned thesis topic, in order to arrange an appointment.