QUAD Tech Network, human rights and critical technologies.
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Emotional AI, Feminism and Human rights.
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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 paper, we put forth an analysis of sensitivity which aims to discern individual from merely statistical evidence. We argue that sensitivity is not to be understood as a factive concept, but as a purely epistemic one. Our resulting analysis of epistemic sensitivity gives rise to an account of legal proof on which a defendant is only found liable based on epistemically sensitive evidence.
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We present a quantitative study that links collective attention across two social media platforms -- YouTube and Twitter, around videos of controversial political topics.
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We propose a new model, Radflow, for networks of time series that influence each other.
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The entry is an overview of Decision Theory and philosophical work on this topic. We did revisions to this entry this year (2020). One major addition was to include recent work on (un)conscious "unawareness" about the epistemic possibilities, or the full suite of possible consequences associated with one's decision options.
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The use of counterfactuals for considerations of algorithmic fairness and explainability is gaining prominence within the machine learning community and industry. This paper argues for more caution with the use of counterfactuals when the facts to be considered are social categories such as race or gender.
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Jenny Davis launched her new book ‘How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things’ (MIT Press 2020) on November 12 2020 at the ANU. This included a panel discussion with Benjamin Hemmings and Hedda Rasan-Cooper. Click through for more information.
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On November 11 2020, the Women in AI Ethics™ Collective - Australia held their first Asia Pacific summit. The summit brought together women and allies from around the world to discuss the current state of diversity + ethics in AI and build meaningful action plans for progress through inspiring panel discussions, workshops, and lightning talks. Click through for more information.
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HMI has launched the Data, AI & Society (DAIS) public online seminar series to give a platform to new voices working to understand and develop democratically, constitutionally, and culturally legitimate data and AI systems. Seminars will be open to the public, find out more here.
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