Steven Gubka Ph.D.

Mentor: Susan Schneider, Ph.D.

Affiliation: Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Steven Gubka, Ph.D., is the Neuroethics, Intelligence, and Society Postdoctoral Fellow at FAU’s Center for the Future Mind. Gubka earned his doctorate degree in philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. His doctoral research focused on the normative significance of emotion and emotion regulation. Prior to that, he earned a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Oxford and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Arizona (with a minor in cognitive science). Gubka’s research investigates the ethics of virtual actions, the value of virtual friendships, and the emotional capacities of artificial intelligence. He is especially interested in how emerging technology, such as emotion detection by AI via facial expressions, affects the regulation of our emotions. This is important because of the role that emotions play in our moral knowledge, agency, and overall well-being.