Biographies

Soenke Ziesche holds a PhD in Natural Sciences from the University of Hamburg, Germany, which he received within a Doctoral Program in Artificial Intelligence. He has worked since 2000 for the United Nations in the humanitarian, recovery and sustainable development fields as well as in data and information management. Currently, he is a consultant, mostly for the UN, for disaster information management as well as for AI. He has written various peer-reviewed articles about AI safety and ethics. In 2021, he published the article “AI Ethics and Value Alignment for Nonhuman Animals”, which focuses on the neglected risk that AI systems may become existential as well as suffering risks for nonhuman animals. He is based in New Delhi.