Ajung Moon

Ajung Moon

Ajung Moon

Assistant Professor at McGill University, Founder and Director of Open Roboethics Institute (ORI), member of the Government of Canada Advisory Council on AI

Bio

Prof. Moon is an experimental roboticist specializing in ethics and responsible design of interactive robots and autonomous intelligent systems. She studies how our interaction with machines influence people’s behaviours and decisions, and investigates different ways to integrate our societal values in the design and deployment of autonomous systems.

She has hands-on experiences from academia, industry, and policy. Prior to joining McGill, she served as a Senior Advisor for the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation, and ran a start-up AI ethics consultancy, Generation R Consulting. She also founded the Open Roboethics Institute, a Canadian nonprofit. She currently serves on the Government of Canada Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence among others.