Antonio Bikić

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Antonio Bikić is research associate at the Munich Graduate School for Ethics in Practice (MKEP). He writes his doctorate thesis at the LMU Munich and the ETH Zurich on the connection between semantics and ethical actions in the context of AI-based agents.based agents. Antonio studied philosophy and computational linguistics/computer science and worked for the computing center of the Max Planck Society, at chairs for practical philosophy/ethics (LMU Munich) and for the Association of the Automotive Industry, Bauhaus Luftfahrt, PwC Munich and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering and Organization.

Research Interests

• Philosophy of AI
• Data Ethics
• Theory of autonomous agents
• Epistemology
• Philosophy of Mind

Dissertation Project

The dissertation project examines the connection between semantics and ethical actions, whereby [inverse] reinforcement learning approaches are of particular interest. The aim is to show whether it is already possible with the current approaches to outsource all situations to machines, or whether there are classes of situations which, due to certain properties, can only be resolved if meaning is actually processed.

Practice in Ethics

The practical project with the Association of the Automotive Industry ended with an internal position paper on decisions under time pressure, dilemmatic situations and considerations of the theory of justice. In addition, the technical possibilities (including AI-supported applications) were evaluated, including the role of nudging.