I am a full professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen. I am also the chair of the department.

» My current research intersts are:

• Machine ethics (or artificial morality): how to implement ethical behaviour in computational agents? how to decide who should decide what is right/wrong for a machine?
• Logic reasoning in social networks: information distortions, social influence, information difussion.
• Collective reasoning and decision making: computational social choice, judgment aggregation flavour.

» Duties and priviledges:

• in the board of European Association for Artificial Intelligence
• in the editorial board of AI Magazine
• vice-chair of the Norwegian AI Association, a charter of eurai
• a member of the informal advisory group on Ethics, Legal, Social Issues (ELS) of CLAIRE. Click for visual!
• Head of the bachelor program in AI at UiB

» Talks avaliable online:

• What a dumb question - Is AI actually intelligent?. This is a pannel with Dagmar Monett and Michael Schmuker. Organised by Machine Learning in Healthcare.
• Machine Ethics. NorwegianOpen AI lab seminar together with NORA.
• Conflicts in Machine Ethics Logic and Interactive Rationality Seminar of the Amsterdam Dynamics Group 2021
• Kunstig intelligens og maskinetikk Akademisk lunsj Bergen Library 06.11.2019 Available as podcast.
• Who's a good robot? CHRISTIE-KONFERANSEN: The robots are coming, are you? April 29, 2019. More? Video? (Jump to 5:36:00)