Philip Brey is a professor of Philosophy of Technology at the University of Twente and the current programme leader of the ESDiT consortium. His research includes a wide variety of topics, including the ethical assessment of emerging technologies, the ethics of AI and robotics, innovative approaches to research ethics, and the ethics of the (future) internet. He is the former president of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology (INSEIT) and of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT). He has coordinated European Union funded projects like SATORI and SIENNA, led NWO projects and was the former scientific director of the 4TU.Centre for Ethics of Technology. Professor Brey is also the most recent recipient of the prestigious Weizenbaum Award for his significant contribution to the field of information and computer ethics, to be awarded at the upcoming International Conference on Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE 2023). 

In this episode, Kristy Claassen interviews him about the “ethics of the Metaverse”. This episode also includes a discussion about the ESDiT consortium, how it came to be and the aims of the programme.