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Matthew J. Dennis is an Assistant Professor in Ethics of Technology at TU Eindhoven. He is the Co-Director of the Eindhoven Center for Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (ECPAI) and is a Senior Research Fellow with the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDiT) consortium. His research focuses on how emerging technologies challenge our notions of fairness, autonomy, well-being, and creativity. He is especially interested in the consumption and creation of digital content, the design of platforms that distribute and amplify content, and synthetic content created using artificial intelligence.
He is the author of Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments (Routledge 2020), and the co-editor of Philosophy of Fame & Celebrity (Bloomsbury 2024), Values for a Post-Pandemic Future (Springer 2023), Ethics of Self-Cultivation (Routledge 2018). He has published research papers in Journal of Value Inquiry, Philosophy & Technology, Ethics & Information Technology, Science & Engineering Ethics, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Ethical Perspectives, Digital Society, Journal of Moral Education, Social Epistemology, Mind & Society, Inquiry: Journal of Interdisciplinary Philosophy, and book chapters with Bloomsbury, Routledge, and Springer.
He has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford's Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (2023), Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics, University of Amsterdam's Institute for Advanced Studies (2022), University of Cambridge's Centre for the Future of Intelligence (2020).
He has collaborated with non-academic partners, including the European Parliament's Science-Media Hub (interview here) on digital well-being, Royal Bank of Scotland & Natwest Group on fairness in algorithmic credit-scoring, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions & Responsible Sensing Lab on autonomous vehicles, and EIT Digital on gender stereotypes in self-care apps. He also recently co-edited a IEEE Industry Connections Report, "Reconceptualising the Ethical Guidelines for Mental Health Apps: Values from Feminism, Disability, & Intercultural Ethics", for the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers. He became a Next Nature Fellow in 2024, and is currently co-designing their digital wellness space with What Design Can Do.
Before starting his current position, he was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at TU Delft (2019–21) and an Early Career Innovation Fellow at University of Warwick (2019). He received a Joint Monash-Warwick PhD (highest honours) in 2019, and has an MA (Warwick) and BA (Sussex) in philosophy.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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ESDiT: Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDiT)
Müller, V. C. (Project Manager), Spahn, A. (Project communication officer), van der Puil, R. (Project member), Frank, L. E. (Project communication officer), Bombaerts, G. (Project communication officer), Nickel, P. J. (Project communication officer), O'Neill, E. (Project communication officer), Royakkers, L. M. M. (Project communication officer), IJsselsteijn, W. A. (Project Manager), Hummel, P. (Project member), Dennis, M. (Project communication officer), IJsselsteijn, W. A. (Project Manager), Sullivan, E. (Project member), Perugia, G. (Project communication officer), Matzat, U. (Project communication officer), Dennis, M. (Project member), Spahn, A. (Project Manager), IJsselsteijn, W. A. (Project member), Royakkers, L. M. M. (Project member), Müller, V. C. (Project member), Sullivan, E. (Project member), van der Puil, R. (Project member), Dennis, M. (Project member), Hummel, P. (Project member), Perugia, G. (Project member), Bombaerts, G. (Project member), Frank, L. E. (Project member), Nickel, P. J. (Project member), Bahçeci, B. (Project member) & Kalidindi, K. (Project member)
1/01/19 → 31/12/28
Project: Second tier
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Towards a Theory of Digital Well-Being: Reimagining Online Life After Lockdown
Dennis, M., 19 May 2021, In: Science and Engineering Ethics. 27, 3, 19 p., 32.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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On the Uses and Abuses of Celebrity Epistemic Power
Archer, A. (Corresponding author), Alfano, M. & Dennis, M., 2024, In: Social Epistemology. 38, 6, p. 759-773 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Attention as Practice: Buddhist Ethics Responses to Persuasive Technologies
Bombaerts, G. (Corresponding author), Anderson, J., Dennis, M., Gerola, A., Frank, L., Hannes, T., Hopster, J., Marin, L. & Spahn, A., Apr 2023, In: Global Philosophy. 33, 2, 16 p., 25.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Correction to: the Ethics of AI in Human Resources (Ethics and Information Technology, (2022), 24, 3, (25), 10.1007/s10676-022-09653-y)
Dennis, M. J. (Corresponding author) & Aizenberg, E., Mar 2023, In: Ethics and Information Technology. 25, 1, 1 p., 1.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/Letter to the editor › Academic › peer-review
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Exemplars and expertise: what we cannot learn from saints and heroes
Archer, A. (Corresponding author) & Dennis, M., 8 Apr 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Inquiry (United Kingdom). XX, XResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access4 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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Eindhoven University of Technology Postdoctoral Article Award
Dennis, M. (Recipient), 2021
Prize: TU/e › Other › Scientific
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Reimagining Persuasive Technologies for Digital Well-Being
Dennis, M. J. (Speaker)
15 Feb 2023Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Scientific
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Attention as practice. Virtue ethical and Buddhist responses to attention controlling technologies
Bombaerts, G. (Speaker), Anderson, J. (Speaker), Dennis, M. J. (Speaker), Frank, L. E. (Speaker), Gerola, A. (Speaker), Hannes, T. (Speaker), Hopster, J. K. G. (Speaker), Marin, L. (Speaker) & Spahn, A. (Speaker)
6 Oct 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Contributed talk › Scientific
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Intercultural ethics and the design of the attention economy
Bombaerts, G. (Speaker), Anderson, J. (Speaker), Dennis, M. J. (Speaker), Frank, L. E. (Speaker), Hopster, J. K. G. (Speaker), Hannes, T. (Speaker) & Spahn, A. (Speaker)
27 Jan 2022 → 28 Jan 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Contributed talk › Scientific
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Incremental Solutions to Ecological Challenges: Repurposing Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability
Dennis, M. (Speaker) & Frank, L. E. (Speaker)
15 Jun 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Contributed talk › Scientific
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New Findings in Technology Described from Eindhoven University of Technology (Attention As Practice Buddhist Ethics Responses To Persuasive Technologies)
Spahn, A., Frank, L. E., Bombaerts, G. & Dennis, M. J.
7/04/23
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The British Academy awards seed funding to support UK-Netherlands collaborative research
5/03/21
1 item of Media coverage
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