The Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences draws attention to the interview of our award-winning researcher Daniela Vacek (Institute of Arts of the Slovak Academy of Sciences), which she gave to the daily SME entitled “Compared to sci-fi scenarios, the existing risks of AI are more subtle“.
The interview deals with the ethics of artificial intelligence – primarily the questions of responsibility for its positive and negative impact. “It is almost impossible to stop this moving train. We should think about how to address current risks and how to minimize them,” says Daniela Vacek (Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences).
Daniela Vacek (Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences) is a philosopher with a focus on AI ethics, analytical aesthetics and philosophical logic. She works as a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies. She received her doctorate in systematic philosophy in 2020 at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava. In 2024, she was awarded the SAS Prize for Young Scientists for her work on ethical issues of AI, philosophy and logic of responsibility, and for studies in the field of analytical aesthetics. This year, she received the ESET Science Award 2025 in the category of Outstanding Personality of Science under 35 years of age.
