Mark Coeckelbergh is Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna and ERA Chair at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He is the author of numerous publications, including Introduction to the Ethics of Emerging Technologies (with Wessel Reijers and Mark Thomas Young, Palgrave Macmillan, 2025); Communicative AI (with David Gunkel, Polity, 2025); Why AI Undermines Democracy and What to Do About It (Polity, 2024); Digital Technologies, Temporality, and the Politics of Co-Existence (MIT Press, 2022); Robot Ethics (MIT Press, 2022); The Political Philosophy of AI (Polity, 2022); and Self-Improvement: Technologies of the Soul in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Columbia University Press, 2022).