Florian Richter is a Postdoc at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Previously, he held a one-year interim research professorship on the societal implications and ethical aspects of artificial intelligence at the Technical University of Ingolstadt, where he also worked as a Postdoc for two and a half years. Earlier, he was a professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico) and taught courses in philosophy, ethics, posthumanism, and technology ethics. 

He studied philosophy, history, and politics at the University of Stuttgart (M.A.) and at the TU Darmstadt (Ph.D. in Philosophy). He was also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh.

Florian Richterʼs main research fields are the philosophy and ethics of technology, particularly the ethics of artificial intelligence. In addition to that, he also deals with political philosophy and neuroethics. 

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie (German Society for Philosophy)

International Neuroethics Society

Florian Richter, Matthias Uhl: “Educational Ideals Affect AI Acceptance in Learning Environments.” In: AI & Ethics6(1), 2026

“The Ethical Acceptability of Personalization via Intelligent Systems in Education.” In: AI & Society, 2025.

Michael Haiden, Florian Richter: “Autonomous Weapons: Considering the Rights and Interests of Soldiers.” In: Ethics and Information Technology 27(4), 2025.

“From Human-System Interaction to Human-System Co-action and Back.” In: AI & Ethics 5, 2024, 19-28.

Sebastian Krügel, Florian Richter, Matthias Uhl: “Context Dependency of Trust in AI-based Systems.” In: 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), IEEE.

“Justice and Smart Societies: Conceptual Foundations, Limitations, and Conditions of Algorithmizing Fairness.” In: Engineering and Value Change, Springer, Cham 2025, 83-100 (Proceedings of the fPET 2023).