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Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik Moral Principles for Human-Human Interaction, Human-AI Interaction, and AI-AI Interaction

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  • Wednesday, 12. November 2025, 18:00
  • Mathematikon, Hörsaal, Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, 69120 Heidelberg
    • Prof. Dr. Sven Nyholm, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Professur für Ethik der Künstlichen Intelligenz

Should AI technologies follow moral principles? (Can they follow moral principles?) Moreover, if AI systems should follow moral principles, should they follow the same moral principles as human beings or different ones? In his presentation, Prof. Nyholm will discuss these questions and relate them to the differences among what he will call human-human interaction, human-AI interaction, and AI-AI interaction. Increasingly, we are interacting with AI chatbots and other AI-powered technologies in different contexts, and some members of the tech industry are claiming that there will soon be highly advanced forms of so-called agentic AI systems in all lines of work. Some AI ethics researchers have discussed whether there should be ethical “double standards” (different ethical principles for humans and for AI systems). He will suggest that we should have ethical “triple standards”: different moral standards depending on whether there is interaction among humans, interaction among humans and AI systems, or interaction among different AI systems.

Öffentliche Vortragsreihe: KI und Ethik

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Moral Principles for Human-Human Interaction, Human-AI Interaction, and AI-AI Interaction

About Sven Nyholm

Sven Nyholm is Professor of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at LMU Munich. He is also Principal Investigator of the ethics of AI in the Munich Center for Machine Learning, as well as area editor for the same subject for the journal Science and Engineering Ethics. Since completing his PhD in philosophy at the University of Michigan in 2012, Nyholm has published on a wide range of topics in moral philosophy and applied ethics, with a special focus on ethical issues related to new and emerging technologies. In his addition to his numerous articles, he is also the author of four books: Revisiting Kant’s Universal Law and Humanity Formulas (De Gruyter, 2015), Humans and Robots: Ethics, Agency, and Anthropomorphism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020), This is Technology Ethics: An Introduction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), and The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Introduction (Hackett, 2026).   

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