We are pleased to announce that Professor Christoph Lütge, Peter Löscher Chair of Business Ethics and Global Governance at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Director of the TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI), and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, has been elected as an Academician of the World Academy of Artificial Consciousness (WAAC), in recognition of his important contributions to artificial intelligence ethics, business ethics, digital technology ethics, robotics and AI ethics, autonomous driving ethics, corporate social responsibility, technology risk governance, international AI governance, and the ethical institutional design of future intelligent societies.
Professor Christoph Lütge is an internationally influential scholar in contemporary artificial intelligence ethics, business ethics, and technology governance. He has long been dedicated to studying the conditions for ethical behavior, institutional design, technological responsibility, risk governance, and social trust mechanisms in the age of globalization and digitalization. His work has systematically advanced the development of business ethics, digital technology ethics, artificial intelligence ethics, autonomous driving ethics, robot ethics, corporate social responsibility, and experimental ethics. As Director of the TUM Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, Professor Lütge has continuously promoted the transformation of AI ethics from abstract value discussions into institutionalized research oriented toward real technological systems, industrial scenarios, and social governance. His work focuses on issues such as responsibility boundaries, value conflicts, risk control, and public trust in the design, deployment, and governance of artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, intelligent platforms, and emerging technologies. He has participated in the German Federal Ethics Commission on Automated and Connected Driving, and has served as a member of the Scientific Committee of AI4People, a European initiative for AI ethics, a member of the Academic Committee of the Institute for AI International Governance at Tsinghua University, and one of the important contributors to the Global AI Ethics Consortium. He has made significant contributions to global AI ethics governance and transnational academic collaboration.
WAAC believes that the study of artificial consciousness requires not only advances in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, neuroscience, computational models, and philosophical theory, but also systematic research into the value foundations, ethical boundaries, responsibility mechanisms, and social governance frameworks associated with artificial agents, embodied robots, autonomous systems, and future consciousness-like machines. Professor Lütge’s work in AI ethics, robot ethics, digital technology ethics, autonomous driving ethics, risk governance, and institutional design provides important theoretical resources and governance insights for value alignment, responsibility attribution, trustworthy intelligent agents, auditable AI, the boundaries of machine autonomy, human–machine co-governance, and the social acceptability of future artificial consciousness systems. His research path, spanning philosophy, business ethics, technology ethics, AI governance, and public policy, offers significant inspiration for connecting foundational research on artificial consciousness with responsible governance in intelligent societies.
In recognition of his outstanding contributions to artificial intelligence ethics, business ethics, digital technology ethics, robotics and AI ethics, autonomous driving ethics, technology risk governance, international AI governance, and the institutional design of intelligent societies, the World Academy of Artificial Consciousness has decided to confer upon Professor Christoph Lütge the title of WAAC Academician.
- Global Collaboration and Academic Ecosystem
WAAC Academicians come from world-leading universities, national academy systems, and frontier research institutions, including Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the University of California, Columbia University, Princeton University, the University of Chicago, University College London, the University of Padua, the University of Queensland, the University of Exeter, the French Academy of Sciences, the German National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and the Max Planck Institute. The body of Academicians includes multiple Nobel Prize laureates, Turing Award laureates, members of national academies of sciences and engineering, Fellows of the Royal Society, and Fellows of internationally important academic organizations such as IEEE, AAAI, AAAS, and the British Academy. By bringing together leading scholars in natural consciousness research, machine consciousness modeling, brain science mechanisms, cognitive robotics, deep learning, brain-computer interfaces, and AI governance, WAAC has built an artificial consciousness research ecosystem that combines scientific depth, technological frontier orientation, philosophical insight, and global collaborative capacity, demonstrating its academic foundation and international influence in the emerging field of artificial consciousness science.
- About WAAC
The World Academy for Artificial Consciousness (https://www.waac.ac/) is a global academic institution established in Paris in 2025. Its mission is to advance frontier research and international collaboration in artificial consciousness through the integration of science, technology, and philosophy. The Academy publishes open research, policy recommendations, evaluation standards, and more. The current President is Academician Yucong Duan, and the Secretary-General is Dr. Yingbo Li. The Honorary Academician List: On May 3, 2025, WAAC released its first batch of Top 100 Honorary Academicians, recognizing scholars who have made foundational or leading contributions to the theory of artificial consciousness.