Mark Coeckelbergh
@coeckelbergh
Philosopher of technology | Professor at Philosophy Department University of Vienna | Author of AI Ethics, Why AI Undermines Democracy, and Artificial Religion | member UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI
Author copies of the Japanese translation of “Communicative AI” (with @davidgunkel.bsky.social, @politybooks.bsky.social ) arrived! #seidosha
Today my interview about #ChatControl was printed in Berliner Zeitung, cover story
This morning I received my author copies of the Japanese translation of Why AI Undermines Democracy ( @politybooks.bsky.social / Seidosha)
Opening of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, with speeches by ambassador López (El Salvador), Secretary-General Guterres, President of the General Assembly Annalena Baerbock, and others
My comments on Magnifica Humanitas now also published in Brazil, in Portuguese: www.ufrgs.br/carbono/2026...
Autor copies of the Korean translation of “Communicative AI” (with @davidgunkel.bsky.social) arrived! Publisher: Saenggakieum Books Date: 27 April 2026
My book on AI and democracy is now translated in French, published by Hermann
With Amandeep Gill, the UN’s Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology
With Carme Artigas (former Spanish Secretary of State for Digitalisation and former co-chair of UN advisory body on AI) and Óscar López Agueda, the current Spanish Minister for Digital Transformation and Civil Service.
Today our UN panel was invited to the Spanish parliament, where Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez gave a speech to the group and thanked me personally for the work.
Greetings from Madrid, where the first in person meeting of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI is off to a good start
My new book "Artificial Religion" is published today by @mitpress.bsky.social !!! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205221...
Arrived from Taipei this morning: the Chinese complex character translation of “Communicative AI”!
Greetings from Berlin, where I will speak today about consciousness and AI/robotics at the World Forum of the future of democracy, tech/AI and humankind Other speakers at the Forum include Hilary Clinton, Susan Schneider, David Gunkel, Joanna Bryson, Sandra Wachter, and various filmmakers
Deeply honoured to have been appointed to the United Nations’ Independent International Scientific Panel on AI by the United Nations General Assembly, on recommendation of the Secretary-General. Here is the list of members www.un.org/independent-...
Greetings from Hong Kong, where I will give an invited talk tomorrow at the philosophy department of HKU
Check out our chapter on the relational approach (with David Gunkel) in this new volume
I just talked in the Belgian Parliament about the ethics of AI
Greetings from Tokyo, where I will do a keynote at the Business-University Forum of Japan
Arrived in Dalian, China 🇨🇳 , for talks at Dalian University of Technology