Ariel Guersenzvaig, PhD, Elisava

Leads course on Ethics of Technology and Design at MDRAI and AI Ethics and Philosophy at MAIAD.

Ariel Guersenzvaig is a design and technology ethicist based in Barcelona, focusing on the ethical impact of machine intelligence on society and the ethics of professional design activity. He is a professor at ELISAVA, Barcelona School of Design and Engineering. His book The Goods of Design: Professional Ethics for Designers (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) was selected as a 2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title by Choice, the journal of the American Association of College and Research Libraries. 

He has a PhD in Design Theory from the University of Southampton and an MA in Ethics from the University of Birmingham. He has published more than 20 papers and book chapters for leading academic journals and scholarly publishers.

“I teach and write about how to be critical when thinking about technology. I also read a lot of very stupid stuff about AI for a living. Sometimes, I yell at clouds.”

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