Claire Benn and Seth Lazar ask what is wrong with online behavioural advertising and recommender systems, in this paper published in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
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Claire Benn is working with Kalervo Gulson from the University of Sydney and the Gradient Institute on the co-design project ‘UK Exam Algorithm Controversy – Co-designing an Interactive Interface’.
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Join us at the 4th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society - 19-21 May 2021!
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This paper presents the notion of Virtue Signalling, a second order normative constraint that asks agents to perform actions that are unambiguously permissible. We discuss different definitions for Virtue Signalling, and show how this type of constraints can affect the behaviour of a robotic agent.
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In this In Conversation event, Dr Claire Benn joined Dr Jason Ketter to explore the sampling of ethical issues with which AI is infused. Dr Benn explains what is AI, whether we should be worried about, the importance of ethical design, and how this might call for us to alter how we understand our own morality. Watch here or click through for more information.
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In this interview, Claire Benn discussed the ethics of facial recognition, from the trends we have seen across the world concerning the development and deployment of facial recognition to the future role facial recognition might play here in Australia. Beginning with the core components of all facial recognition, Dr Benn explores the dangers and opportunities facial recognition presents when it goes right and when it goes wrong.
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Jenny Davis and Claire Benn delivered an invited interactive guest lecture to upper-level undergraduate and post-graduate students studying Science and Public Policy in ANU's Science Communication program.
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At HawaiiCon 2020, Claire Benn discussed her chapter ‘Playtest and the Power of Virtual Reality: Are Our Fears Real?’ which is part of the recently released Black Mirror and Philosophy: Dark Reflections book. Click through for more information.
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Should we use large-scale facial recognition systems? This article in The Conversation distinguishes between facial recognition and face surveillance and argues that we should demand a moratorium on face surveillance.
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