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Prof. John Stewart Gordon leads the VMU Research Cluster for Applied Ethics at Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania). His work focuses on interdisciplinary research addressing moral, legal, and societal implications of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. Key areas include data privacy concerns, ethical status of artificially intelligent systems, and legal frameworks for smart technologies.
He critiques modern data security paradigms, arguing that societal reliance on systems like Lithuania's personal identification number (asmens kodas) creates inherent vulnerabilities. His project Integration Study of Future Law, Ethics and Smart Technologies explores issues like robot rights, personhood criteria for non-human entities, and parallels between animal/human disability rights discourse and AI ethics.
Current initiatives include international collaboration with U.S. and European institutions, aiming to revise legal education curricula and develop decision-making frameworks for tech-driven legal challenges. The project also examines liability in autonomous systems (e.g., self-driving cars) and cybersecurity vulnerabilities revealed by real-world cases like the FBI-Apple encryption dispute.
Prof. Gordon emphasizes proactive ethical evaluation of innovations to preempt societal disruption, advocating for global standards in technology governance while questioning whether robots might someday deserve rights analogous to legal persons.
