Herman Cappelen
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Herman Cappelen

Herman Cappelen

Chair Professor of Philosophy / Director of AI & Humanity LabUniversity of Hong Kong
Herman Cappelen is a Chair Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He is the Director of the AI & Humanity Lab at HKU, the Director of IDEAS (part of the Institute of Data Science at HKU), the Director of the MA programme in AI, Ethics, and Society, and the Coordinator of a new part of the Common Core devoted to artificial intelligence. Professor Cappelen is the author or co-author of eleven influential monographs and more than 50 highly cited papers. His research spans many areas of philosophy, with much of his recent work focusing on issues in the philosophy of AI. He has written about the linguistic and cognitive capacities of AI, existential risks from AI, and the possibility of explainable and interpretable AI. His first book on AI is titled Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2024).

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