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Derek Leben is Associate Teaching Professor of Ethics at the Tepper School of Business. His research focuses on principles of fairness and weighing harms from the perspective of a contractarian ethical theory, and how organizations can implement these principles into standards for AI and autonomous systems. He received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 2012, and taught ethics at the University of Pittsburgh for ten years before joining Tepper. He is author of the books Ethics for Robots (Routledge, 2018) and AI Fairness (MIT Press, 2024). As founder of the consulting group Ethical Algorithms, Dr. Leben has worked with governments and companies to develop policies on fairness and benefit for AI and autonomous systems.

Dr. Leben can be reached at: dleben [at] andrew [dot] cmu [dot] edu