STEPHAN GUTTINGER, PhD

Stephan is a philosopher of science with a background in biochemistry.

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His research focuses on the epistemology and the methodology of the life sciences, with a special focus on how reliable and trustworthy data is created in the laboratory. In particular, he is interested in how AI-driven Automation (ADA) is changing the process of knowledge-generation in the scientific laboratory.

 

Stephan is a lecturer in Philosophy of Data and Data Ethics at the University of Exeter and the PI of the Leverhulme-funded project "Agents that can err: building the foundations for autonomous  AI Scientists" (start September 2026).