Constantin Vica ALLS 18

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Constantin Vică is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Bucharest and a researcher at the Research Centre in Applied Ethics. He teaches the course “Ethics of Technology” in the MA programme in Applied Ethics. His research interests lie in AI ethics and digital ethics, bioethics, and social and political philosophy. He has published numerous articles on the internet and cognitive enhancement, social media platform design, online outrage, authenticity, autonomy and neurotechnologies, artificial intelligence and the ethics of the future, AI system responsibility, digital duplicates, and robots as assistants and companions. His work has appeared in journals such as “Science and Engineering Ethics”, “Ethics and Information Technology”, “AI & Society”, “Philosophy & Technology”, “International Journal of Social Robotics”, “Frontiers in Robotics and AI”, “Journal of Bioethical Inquiry”, “Topoi”, “Philosophical Psychology”, “Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences”. In 2023, he published his monograph “Algorithmic Civilization and Life in the Digital World” (University of Bucharest Publishing House). In the same year, after a 20-year hiatus, he returned with a new volume of poetry, “20002020” (OMG Publishing). He is a member of the team behind the “avataResponsibility” project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC).