Rainer Mühlhoff is Professor of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at the Institute of Cognitive Science and the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Osnabrück. From October 2025 to March 2026, he will also be a Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK.

He is additionally affiliated as a researcher with the Einstein Center Digital Future in Berlin and as an associate member of the Collaborative Research Center 1171 Affective Societies at the Free University of Berlin.

From 2023 to 2025, he was an Associate Researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society.