Emilia Kaczmarek

Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw

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Research interests:

• ethics of AI, moral status of AI agents, human-AI relationships (e.g. emotional, therapeutic)
• ethics of research involving humans, especially exploitation in research and research payments
• publication ethics
• medicalization, ethics in the pharmaceutical industry, conflict of interest

“I am an ethicist working at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw. My PhD focused on the ethics of the pharmaceutical industry and medicalization. Currently, I teach courses on AI ethics, ethics of new technologies, and research ethics. I recently completed a research project on the ethics of emotional relationships with AI.”

Projects:

Current:

• Indecent proposal? Ethics of paying participants of biomedical research (NCN) – research team member

Completed: 

• The problem of imitation in human-AI emotional relations (UW IDUB-POB IV) – Principal Investigator
• Pharmaceutical business – ethical challenges and new biopolitics (NCN)– Principal Investigator

Publications:

• Academia.edu
• ResearchGate
• ORCID
• Google Scholar

Books:

• Emilia Kaczmarek, Gorzka pigułka. Etyka i biopolityka w branży farmaceutycznej, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warszawa 2019
• Emilia Kaczmarek, Co to właściwie jest ten dżender? I inne felietony, Wydawnictwo: Fundacja Kultura Liberalna, Warszawa, 2017

Positions/services

• Member of the Scientific Council for the Discipline of Philosophy at the Univeristy of Warsaw.
• Member of the Didactic Council of the Faculty of Philosophy, Univeristy of Warsaw.
• Supervisor of the Student Internship/Placement, Master Programme in Bioethics (Univeristy of Warsaw, Faculty of Philosophy)

Education:

• Doctor of humanities in philosophy (PhD, 2018)
• Master of arts in philosophy (MA) (2013)