Jeroen van den Hoven examines whether technological progress and moral responsibility can co-exist.
This lecture was recorded at the Ri on 25 October 2025 in partnership with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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Innovation is an integral part of science, but is it always good? Join ethics and technology expert Jeroen van den Hoven as he explores how to make sure our innovations and new technologies serve the public interest in a systematic way, and help to address the grand challenges of society, including climate change, energy transition, and global health infrastructure.
For example, how can we design AI applications responsibly? Jeroen will demonstrate how being bound by moral values can in fact be an economic advantage, providing a comprehensive view on the world that opens up new options not available to others. In a high tech world, the systematic and meticulous attention to design seems the only way to bring our moral values to bear on how technology shapes of life world.
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Jeroen van den Hoven is a Professor at Delft University of Technology of Ethics and Technology. He is Founding Editor in Chief of Ethics and Information Technology (Springer Nature). He is currently the scientific director of the Delft Digital Ethics Centre, which was designated in 2025 by WHO as an official WHO Collaborating Ethics Centre, with a special assignment for Ethics and Global Governance of AI in Health and Medicine.
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