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Alex John London

Director, Center for Ethics and Policy
K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies, Philosophy

Bio

Alex John London is the K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies, co-lead of the K&L Gates Initiative in Ethics and Computational Technologies at ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿, Director of the Center for Ethics and Policy at ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿, and Chief Ethicist at the Block Center for Technology and Society at ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿. 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,  is available in  from Oxford University Press and is available here in PDF 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 , one of the most widely used textbooks in medical ethics.

Professor London is a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Group on Ethics and Governance of AI whose “” was published in 2024 and whose report, “” was published in 2021. From 2022–2023 he was a member of the , whose report "” was published in 2023. He is a conference program co-chair for the 6th AAAI / ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society (AIES) and a member of the program committee for the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) conference. He has served on previous program committees for AIE in 2021 and 2022 and from 2017-2019 he was a judge for the IBM Watson AI X-Prize. He is currently a co-leader of the ethics core for the NSF AI Institute for Collaborative Assistance and Responsive Interaction for Networked Groups (AI-CARING).

For more than a decade, Professor London has helped to shape key ethical guidelines for the oversight of research with human participants. He is currently a member of the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (). From 2012-2016 he was a member of the Working Group on the Revision of CIOMS 2002 .  Prior to that he was an expert commentator at three World Medical Association meetings for the revision of the .  From 2007-2018 he was a member of the Ethics Working Group of the U.S. HIV Prevention Trials Network where he was part of the group that drafted the .  From 2016-2017 he was part of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine  and in 2016 he was appointed to the U.S. Health and Human Services . He has served as an ethics expert in consultations with numerous national and international organizations including U.S. National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization (, and ), the World Medical Association, and the World Bank.