Our researcher Daniela Vacek (Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences) won in the category “Outstanding Personality of Science under 35 years of age” and received the prestigious ESET Science Award.
The laureates of the 7th edition of the ESET Science Awardwere decided by an international committee led by Nobel Prize winner Edvard Moser.
The category “Outstanding Personality of Science under 35 years of age” awards scientific personalities under 35 years of age whose work can be described as exceptionally beneficial to the Slovak scientific space and has great potential for the future.
Daniela Vacek’s philosophy fascinated her during her high school years. At university, her interest evolved from logic and semantics to ethical questions of responsibility – until it led her to one of the most pressing dilemmas of our time: how to approach responsibility for the impact of artificial intelligence? Today, she is one of the leading Slovak philosophers in the field of ethics of artificial intelligence, analytical aesthetics and philosophical logic. She works as a researcher at the Department of Analytical Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and at the same time teaches at the Department of Logic and Methodology of Sciences of the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University. She recently became part of the “Ethics and Human Values in Technology” team at the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies, whose innovative results motivate and inspire her to further research.
Daniela Vacek (Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences) believes that the story of the most important technology of the 21st century is written by us. Her research shows that there is room for human responsibility here as well, but we need to focus on concepts of responsibility suitable for this task.
