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BIO:

Derek Leben is Teaching Professor of Ethics at the Tepper School of Business. His research focuses on principles of fairness and weighing harms, and how organizations can implement these principles into standards for AI and autonomous systems. He received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2012, and taught ethics at the University of Pittsburgh for ten years before joining Tepper. He is author of the books Ethics for Robots (Routledge, 2018) and AI Fairness (MIT Press, 2025).

Dr. Leben can be reached at: dleben [at] andrew [dot] cmu [dot] edu