Affiliation: Institute of State and Law and Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences
Keywords: Ethics, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, Biomedicine
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David is a philosopher who works at the Czech Academy of Sciences and lectures on applied ethics (medical ethics, bioethics, ethics of artificial intelligence) at several Czech universities. He is the author of several monographs on the ethics of stem cell research, animal rights, death and dying, allocation of scarce resources in times of pandemics, euthanasia, and the ethics of modern technologies. He is also the author of Cerny, D. The Principle of Double Effect. A History and Philosophical Defense (New York: Routledge, 2020, 2022) and co-author of Jenkins, R., Černý, D., Hříbek, T. (eds.). Autonomous Vehicle Ethics. The Trolley Problem and Beyond (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022).
David is currently working on just war theory, particularly the use of autonomous military robots.
In the Czech Republic, David frequently appears in the media (TV, radio) and has written many articles in newspapers. He is also involved in science popularization.
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