ABOUT
Dr. Alžběta Solarczyk Krausová
Founder of Respectful AI
Twenty years ago I started working on a question that almost nobody thought was urgent: Where does a human being end and the technology begins? I've explored this question through AI and robotics law, brain–computer interfaces, privacy, copyright and neurolaw. I still have not found the definitive answer... maybe it is because the relationship between a human and a technology develops and changes constantly. However, the role of a human has never been more important and yet more complicated. So lately I have been asking myself – what happens to a person when technology gets close enough to think alongside them?
My journey
The long version
I trained as a lawyer, and my doctorate – Law and New Forms of Semi-Artificial Life – is on the legal status of hybrid robots that run on biological brains. Before that I spent five years researching the legal aspects of brain–computer interfaces. One asks what happens when technology enters the human. The other asks what happens when biology enters the machine. They are the same question from two directions, and I have never really stopped asking it.
I spent most of my career in research, latterly leading the Center for Innovations and Cyberlaw Research at the Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences. I founded and chaired SOLAIR, an international conference on society, law, artificial intelligence and robotics, through eight editions – co-organised at various points with UNCITRAL, UNIDROIT, Microsoft, DLA Piper, Charles University and the Czech AI Association.
In 2023 I founded Respectful AI, and in 2026 I left academia to run it full time.
The move was less of a change than it sounds. The work has always been the same: taking questions that look abstract and showing people why they are not. The difference is that I now do it in rooms where decisions get made rather than in rooms where they get analysed.
I don't sell AI systems. I have no product to defend and no vendor to please. That is usually why organisations ask me what they should actually do.
The record behind the work
Experience. Impact. Reach.
- 20+
- years I've worked in AI law, regulation and ethics
- 15
- countries where I've spoken, across three continents
- 12
- organisations trained and advised since founding Respectful AI in 2023
- 1st
- AI Officer Academy cohort graduated, 2026
International appointments
Shaping the rules
- Member, Expert Group on Liability and New Technologies, European Commission
- Member, OECD network of experts ONE AI
- Czech expert, UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI negotiations
- Co-author, National AI Strategy of the Czech Republic
- Main author, Czech proposals to UNCITRAL and UNIDROIT on international AI regulation
- Co-author, EU report Liability for Artificial Intelligence and other emerging digital technologies
- Concluding remarks, UN Internet Governance Forum Open Forum (2023)
- Czech delegate, Paris AI Action Summit (2025)
My philosophy
I'd rather make you think than tell you what to think.
That's the whole method.
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Earlier roles and research
- Head, Center for Innovations and Cyberlaw Research (CICeRo), Institute of State and Law, Czech Academy of Sciences
- Founder and chair, SOLAIR Conference – eight editions
- Chair, Czech AI Observatory & Forum
- External lecturer, Charles University – Faculty of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
- Executive Editor, The Lawyer Quarterly
- Member, Appeal Commission, Office for Personal Data Protection
- Member, Intellectual Property Council, Czech Academy of Sciences
- Member, International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law
Ph.D., Masaryk University – Law and New Forms of Semi-Artificial Life, on the legal status of hybrid robots with biological brains.
Recognition
Recognition
- AI Personality of the Year in Law – Czech AI Association, 2024
- Deloitte Legal Disruptors – for innovation in law, 2022
- Miloslav Petrusek Prize for Presentation – Charles University, 2021
- Masaryk Distinguished Chair fellowship, Israel, 2020
- International Visitor Leadership Program on Technological Innovation – U.S. Department of State
- AI Connect – U.S. Department of State and the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center
- Full Erasmus Mundus scholarships, University of Haifa, 2011 and 2014
- Best student research paper, on the legal regulation of artificial beings – Masaryk University, 2006
Education
Education
Ph.D., Law and ICT – Masaryk University
LL.M., International Intellectual Property and Patent Law – University of Haifa, Israel
Mgr., Law – Masaryk University
Early research post at ICRI (now CiTiP), KU Leuven – the leading European centre for ICT law.
Selected writing
Questions in print.
Legal Aspects of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology, 2014
The paper that started it: BCIs as a threat to freedom of thought. Still cited in the neurorights literature.
Robots with Biological Brains: Autonomy and Liability of a Semi-Artificial Life Form · with Hananel Hazan
What happens to liability when a machine runs on living neural tissue.
Několik poznámek k problematice umělé inteligence v normotvorbě a rozhodování soudů · Právník, with Vojen Güttler
On AI in lawmaking and judicial decision-making, co-authored with a former Constitutional Court judge.
Between Benefits and Threats of Algorithmic News Personalization · Observatorio, with Volek and Moravec
Umělá inteligence a odpovědnostní vztahy · Bulletin advokacie, 2025
AI and liability, written for practising advocates.
Digitální doba s lidskou tváří: příručka pro novináře · co-author
Human rights in the digital age, for journalists.
Latest selected appearances in the media
Television, radio & podcast
Press
Speaking
On stage and in the room.
Fifteen countries, three continents. I present in Czech and English.
The company
Founded in 2023.
In 2023 I founded Respectful AI, and in 2026 I left academia to run it full time.
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