Dafna Burema
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Dafna Burema is a sociologist specializing in artificial intelligence ethics, robot ethics, and the social implications of emerging technologies.
She joined SCIoI in November 2020 to work as a postdoctoral researcher.
Dafna received her PhD from the University of Bremen, where she investigated social robots in eldercare and the biases embedded in these technologies.
Her research focuses on the societal implications of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. She is particularly interested in critical theory and uses qualitative research methods to understand the social meaning and consequences of technological developments.
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Burema, D. (2025). The challenges of being an in-house AI ethicist and how to overcome them. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 12(1), 2445322. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2024.2445322
Burema, D., Jacobs, M., & Rozborski, F. (2024). Elusive technologies, elusive responsibilities: on the perceived responsibility of basic AI researchers. AI and Ethics, 4(4), 1453–1466. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-023-00358-6
Burema, D., Debowski-Weimann, N., Von Janowski, A., Grabowski, J., Maftei, M., Jacobs, M., Van Der Smagt, P., & Benbouzid, D. (2023). A sector-based approach to AI ethics: Understanding ethical issues of AI-related incidents within their sectoral context. Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 705–714. https://doi.org/10.1145/3600211.3604680
Hot Topics in Intelligence Research -
Alan Winfield (UWE Bristol) & Dafna Burema (Science of Intelligence)
Hot Topics in Intelligence Research -
POSTPONED: Alan Winfield (UWE Bristol) & Dafna Burema (Science of Intelligence)
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Panel Discussion with Dafna Burema, Mattis Jacobs, and Jonas Frenkel, “Artificial Intelligence: Examples of AI gone wrong and Ethical Questions”
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2024 Berlin Summer School of Artificial Intelligence and Society, Workshop: "AI ethics: Cases of (ir)responsible AI deployment": "
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