Jean-François Bonnefon

Jean-François Bonnefon is a CNRS Research Director, with affiliations to the Toulouse School of Economics, where he chairs the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences; the Toulouse School of Management; the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse of which he is the director; and the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute where he is chair of moral Artificial Intelligence.

A cognitive psychologist by training, he has held research positions across computer science, psychology, and economics departments — and his 100+ publications often feature a combination of these three domains. He is an expert on moral preferences and decisions, especially in the context of advanced Artificial Intelligence, and is widely known for his contributions to the ethics of autonomous driving.