AJung Moon is a Korean-Canadian experimental roboticist associated with South Korea and the University of British Columbia, specializing in ethics and the responsible design of interactive robots and autonomous intelligent systems.^[1] She is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at McGill University and the Director of the McGill Responsible Autonomy & Intelligent System Ethics (RAISE) lab.^[2] Her research interests lie in human-robot interaction, AI ethics, and robot ethics.^[2]

Prior to joining McGill University, she served as a senior advisor for the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation and ran a start-up AI ethics consultancy, Generation R Consulting.^[3] She also founded the nonprofit Open Roboethics Institute. She currently serves on the Government of Canada Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence among others.^[3]

Originally from Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea, Moon completed her M.A.Sc. thesis at the University of British Columbia in 2012, titled "What Should a Robot Do?: Design and Implementation of Human-like Hesitation Gestures as a Response Mechanism for Human-robot Resource Conflicts".^[2,4,5] She received her Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia in 2014, focusing on human-robot interaction and robot ethics, with her Ph.D. research thesis focusing on the "interactive paradigm of human-robot conflict resolution".^[2,4,5] Moon is currently an associate professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University.

According to Moon, relationships between humans and machines will need to consider the potential conflicts between the two entities. She argues that people naturally negotiate for solutions; however, robots do not have the ability to understand morals and how this will weigh into how they negotiate and how decisions are made.

Moon has collaborated on several projects, including working as part of the International Panel on the Regulation of Autonomous Weapons in 2017 on "Focus on Technology and Application of Autonomous Weapons" and "Focus on Computational Methods in the Context of LAWS." In 2015, Moon served as a lead researcher for "The Ethics and Governance of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems" by the Open Roboethics Institute. Additionally, Moon collaborated with S. Sheikholeslami and E.A. Croft in 2017 on "Cooperative Gestures for Industry: Exploring the Efficacy of Robot Hand Configurations in Expression of Instructional Gestures for Human-Robot Interaction" for the International Journal of Robotics Research.

Media appearances and coverage include Emmet Cole's piece "The Cobot Experience: AJung Moon & Resolving Human-Cobot Resource Conflicts" on the Robotiq Blog, the CBC News report "Robots Can Be A Force for Good" on May 21, 2018, and "Should We Fear the Robots?" published in the Georgia Straight on May 9, 2018. Further coverage and articles include "Best Practices in Designing Effective Road Maps for Robotic Innovation" on Robohub on January 22, 2018, along with "A newcomer's guide to #ICRA2022: A primer" on April 27, 2022, and "A newcomer's guide to #ICRA2022: Tutorials" on May 2, 2022.