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236Artificial Knowing OtherwiseFeminist Philosophy Quarterly 8 (3). 2022.While feminist critiques of AI are increasingly common in the scholarly literature, they are by no means new. Alison Adam’s Artificial Knowing (1998) brought a feminist social and epistemological stance to the analysis of AI, critiquing the symbolic AI systems of her day and proposing constructive alternatives. In this paper, we seek to revisit and renew Adam’s arguments and methodology, exploring their resonances with current feminist concerns and their relevance to contemporary machine learnin…Read more
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1175The Algorithmic Leviathan: Arbitrariness, Fairness, and Opportunity in Algorithmic Decision-Making SystemsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 52 (1): 26-43. 2022.This article examines the complaint that arbitrary algorithmic decisions wrong those whom they affect. It makes three contributions. First, it provides an analysis of what arbitrariness means in this context. Second, it argues that arbitrariness is not of moral concern except when special circumstances apply. However, when the same algorithm or different algorithms based on the same data are used in multiple contexts, a person may be arbitrarily excluded from a broad range of opportunities. The …Read more
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106Clinical Decisions Using AI Must Consider Patient ValuesNature Medicine 28. 2022.Built-in decision thresholds for AI diagnostics are ethically problematic, as patients may differ in their attitudes about the risk of false-positive and false-negative results, which will require that clinicians assess patient values.
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1251Transparency in Complex Computational SystemsPhilosophy of Science 87 (4): 568-589. 2020.Scientists depend on complex computational systems that are often ineliminably opaque, to the detriment of our ability to give scientific explanations and detect artifacts. Some philosophers have s...
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Northeastern UniversityDepartment of Philosophy and Religion
Khoury College of Computer SciencesAssistant Professor
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence |
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence |
General Philosophy of Science |