Alex John London

Alex John London is the K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies (formerly the Clara L. West Professor of Ethics and Philosophy) at Carnegie Mellon University where is is the Director of the Center for Ethics and Policy and co-lead of the K&L Gates Initiative in Ethics and Computational Technologies. An elected Fellow of the Hastings Center, Professor London’s work focuses on ethical and policy issues surrounding the development and deployment of novel technologies in medicine, biotechnology and artificial intelligence, on methodological issues in theoretical and practical ethics, and on cross-national issues of justice and fairness. His book, For the Common Good: Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics (Oxford University Press) is available for free as an open access title.His papers have appeared in Mind, The Philosopher’s Imprint, Science, JAMA, The Lancet, The BMJ, PLoS Medicine, Statistics In Medicine, The Hastings Center Report, and numerous other journals and collections. He is also co-editor of Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine, one of the most widely used textbooks in medical ethics.