Mark Ryan

I am a Digital Ethics Researcher at Wageningen Economic Research, focusing on areas or robotics, AI, and digital developments and responsible innovation. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. I also worked on two large H2020 projects: the SHERPA project (2018-2021, budget 3 million) focuses on the ethical, social and human rights implications of smart information systems (data analytics and artificial intelligence); and the MARIO project (budget 4 million, 2015-2018), which assessed the difficulties of loneliness and isolation among people with dementia and the possibility of using service robots to ameliorate some these issues. I have published on a wide range of digital ethics topics, such as: smart cities, self-driving vehicles, agricultural data analytics, social robotics, and artificial intelligence. The below video is based on one of my papers, focusing on the ethical impact of AI in the agri-food sector.