Nir Eisikovits

Founding Director, Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston

Nir Eisikovits is an associate professor of philosophy and founding director of the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston, working on the impact of AI of our everyday experiences.

Presentations

Human species have co-evolved with technology for hundreds of thousands of years. It is no different today, but the stakes are higher, as they include global existential risks, and the pace of change is faster by many orders of magnitude.

Future Humans and the Price of Progress

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Publications

Biography

Nir Eisikovits is an associate professor of philosophy and founding director of the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston, and has recently been working on the impact of AI of our everyday experiences. He was an associate professor of legal and political philosophy at Suffolk University and co-founded the Graduate Program in Ethics and Public Policy. Nir is author of A Theory of Truces (Palgrave MacMillan) and Sympathizing with the Enemy (Brill), and the guest editor the recent issue of Theoria on The Idea of Peace in the Age of Asymmetrical Warfare. In addition to his scholarly work, he advises several NGOs focused on conflict resolution and comments frequently on the Middle East conflict for American newspapers and magazines.

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