Mois Navon

Bar-Ilan University, Twitter (United States)

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Mois Navon is a leading voice at the intersection of robotics, ethics, and Jewish philosophy, exploring the profound moral questions raised by the rise of social and conscious machines. His work centers on the ethical design and deployment of autonomous systems, particularly the paradigm of the “Virtuous Servant Owner,” which reframes human-robot relationships through a lens of responsibility and moral agency. Navon’s most cited paper (2021, 36 citations) argues that this ancient ethical model is urgently needed to guide the integration of robots into intimate human domains like caregiving and therapy. He has also made significant contributions to the debate on synthetic consciousness, asking whether humanity should create conscious robots at all—a question he tackles from a Jewish ethical perspective (2023, 6 citations). His 2024 primer on conscious robots synthesizes technical and philosophical insights, making complex ideas accessible to a broad audience. Navon’s work is notable for bridging cutting-edge AI with timeless moral traditions, earning him recognition as a distinctive thinker in robot ethics. His scholarship challenges engineers and ethicists alike to consider not just what robots can do, but what they should be.