Carl Mörch

Carl Mörch

Co-Director, FARI – AI Institute for the Common Good

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Dr. Carl Mörch is the Co-Director of FARI – AI for the Common Good Institute (ULB-VUB) and a member of the AI Ethics & Law Board of the Federal initiative AI4Belgium. He is also a member of the Ethics Special Interest Group of CLAIRE and a Co-Chair of CLAIRE Brussels office.

Dr. Carl Mörch aims at fostering high-quality applied projects related to AI, Data and Robotics that could serve the Brussels Region and its inhabitants. With FARI, he wants to support initiatives that can reinforce education around these technologies, and could help bridge the gap with civil society.

In 2020, Carl was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship by the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies (OBVIA). He was, from 2020 to 2021, a postdoctoral fellow at the Université de Montréal and at Mila – Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute.

He is also a lecturer and adjunct professor at UQÀM (Montréal, Canada). His personal research work is oriented towards the concrete application of high-level ethical principles in applied domains. In general, he is interested in the responsible development of technologies in society, and health care (Psychology and Dental Medicine in particular).