Judith Simon is Full Professor for Ethics in Information Technologies at the Universität Hamburg. She is interested in ethical, epistemological and political questions arising in the context of digital technologies, in particular in regard to artificial intelligence. Judith Simon is Vice-Chair of the German Ethics Council, where she also was the spokesperson for the opinion on "Humans and Machines – Challenges of Artificial Intelligence". She has been serving on various other committees of scientific policy advice such as the Data Ethics Commission of the German Federal Government (2018-2019). She is the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy (2020) and serves von the editorial and advisory boards of the journals “Philosophy and Technology”, "Big Data & Society" and "Digital Society”.Photo credits: Christian Thiel/German Ethics Council