Ammar Younas is a Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Cultural Governance at the Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance (Beijing-AISI). His research sits at the intersection of philosophy, law, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on cross-cultural AI ethics and governance and the jurisprudence of future societies, how legal and moral concepts such as personhood, rights, and responsibility should be reconceived as AI systems become social actors.
He holds a PhD in Philosophy of Science and Technology from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (supervised by Prof. Yi Zeng) and an LLM from Tsinghua University, al…
Ammar Younas is a Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Cultural Governance at the Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance (Beijing-AISI). His research sits at the intersection of philosophy, law, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on cross-cultural AI ethics and governance and the jurisprudence of future societies, how legal and moral concepts such as personhood, rights, and responsibility should be reconceived as AI systems become social actors.
He holds a PhD in Philosophy of Science and Technology from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (supervised by Prof. Yi Zeng) and an LLM from Tsinghua University, alongside earlier degrees in medicine, law, international relations, and human rights. A licensed lawyer in four jurisdictions and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, he also serves on international arbitration panels which grounds his philosophical work in legal practice.
