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1The 2019 Yearbook of the Digital Ethics Lab (edited book)Springer Nature. 2020.This edited volume presents an overview of cutting-edge research areas within digital ethics as defined by the Digital Ethics Lab of the University of Oxford. It identifies new challenges and opportunities of influence in setting the research agenda in the field. The yearbook presents research on the following topics: conceptual metaphor theory, cybersecurity governance, cyber conflicts, anthropomorphism in AI, digital technologies for mental healthcare, data ethics in the asylum process, AI’s l…Read more
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383Algorithmic Profiling as a Source of Hermeneutical InjusticePhilosophical Studies 1-19. forthcoming.It is well-established that algorithms can be instruments of injustice. It is less frequently discussed, however, how current modes of AI deployment often make the very discovery of injustice difficult, if not impossible. In this article, we focus on the effects of algorithmic profiling on epistemic agency. We show how algorithmic profiling can give rise to epistemic injustice through the depletion of epistemic resources that are needed to interpret and evaluate certain experiences. By doing so,…Read more
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4Epistemic fragmentation poses a threat to the governance of online targetingNature Machine Intelligence 3 (June 2021). 2021.Online targeting isolates individual consumers, causing what we call epistemic fragmentation. This phenomenon amplifies the harms of advertising and inflicts structural damage to the public forum. The two natural strategies to tackle the problem of regulating online targeted advertising, increasing consumer awareness and extending proactive monitoring, fail because even sophisticated individual consumers are vulnerable in isolation, and the contextual knowledge needed for effective proactive mon…Read more
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171Rational updating at the crossroadsEconomics and Philosophy 40 (1): 190-211. 2024.In this paper we explore the absentminded driver problem using two different scenarios. In the first scenario we assume that the driver is capable of reasoning about his degree of absentmindedness before he hits the highway. This leads to a Savage-style model where the states are mutually exclusive and the act-state independence is in place. In the second we employ centred possibilities, by modelling the states (i.e. the events about which the driver is uncertain) as the possible final destinati…Read more
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141Bayesian BeautyErkenntnis 87 (2): 657-676. 2020.The Sleeping Beauty problem has attracted considerable attention in the literature as a paradigmatic example of how self-locating uncertainty creates problems for the Bayesian principles of Conditionalization and Reflection. Furthermore, it is also thought to raise serious issues for diachronic Dutch Book arguments. I show that, contrary to what is commonly accepted, it is possible to represent the Sleeping Beauty problem within a standard Bayesian framework. Once the problem is correctly repres…Read more
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155Ethical aspects of multi-stakeholder recommendation systemsThe Information Society 37 (1). 2021.This article analyses the ethical aspects of multistakeholder recommendation systems (RSs). Following the most common approach in the literature, we assume a consequentialist framework to introduce the main concepts of multistakeholder recommendation. We then consider three research questions: who are the stakeholders in a RS? How are their interests taken into account when formulating a recommendation? And, what is the scientific paradigm underlying RSs? Our main finding is that multistakeholde…Read more
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68The Non-Identity Problem and the Ethics of Future People, David Boonin. (review)Economics and Philosophy 32 353-381. 2016.
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253Recommender systems and their ethical challengesAI and Society (4): 957-967. 2020.This article presents the first, systematic analysis of the ethical challenges posed by recommender systems through a literature review. The article identifies six areas of concern, and maps them onto a proposed taxonomy of different kinds of ethical impact. The analysis uncovers a gap in the literature: currently user-centred approaches do not consider the interests of a variety of other stakeholders—as opposed to just the receivers of a recommendation—in assessing the ethical impacts of a reco…Read more
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12De se beliefs and centred uncertaintyDissertation, London School of Economics and Political Science. 2018.What kind of thing do you believe when you believe that you are in a certain place, that it is a certain time, and that you are a certain individual? What happens if you get lost, or lose track of the time? Can you ever be unsure of your own identity? These are the kind of questions considered in my thesis. Beliefs about where, when and who you are are what are called in the literature de se, or self-locating beliefs. This thesis examines how we can represent de se beliefs, and how we can reason…Read more
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Areas of Specialization
Formal Epistemology |
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Probability |
Decision Theory |
Normative Ethics |