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Algorithmic Fairness, Risk, and the Dominant Protective Agency

political philosophy are often applied to new contexts. The reverse—that novel insights from the algorithmic fairness literature are fed back into ethics and political philosophy—is far less established ... offered by Baumann and Loi have an important but so far overlooked connection to the derivation of the minimal state offered by Nozick (1974) and thus to political philosophy at large. Algorithmic fairness

Commentary on David Watson, “On the Philosophy of Unsupervised Learning,” Philosophy & Technology

Philosophy, LMU Munich , Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Munich , Germany The domain of unsupervised learning, unlike supervised learning and reinforcement learning, has largely been neglected in ... . Nodelman (Eds.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of philosophy . Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. Hastie , T. , Tibshirani , R. , & Friedman , J. ( 2009 ). The elements of statistical learning: Data

Digital Despotism and Aristotle on the Despotic Master–Slave Relation

This paper analyzes a contemporary conception of digital despotism through themes drawn from classical Greek philosophy. By taking as a measure some of the most radically excluded categories of human ... remain pressing concerns, and opportunities afforded by digital should be judged with the risks it presents to human flourishing. This paper attempts to bring theory from classical political philosophy

Conceptual Engineering and Philosophy of Technology: Amelioration or Adaptation?

disruptions, its primary aim is not to improve concepts, but to retain their functional quality, or to prevent them from degrading. This is the characteristic aim of CE when undertaken in philosophy of ... Netherlands 1 Department of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam , Amsterdam , the Netherlands Conceptual Engineering (CE) is thought to be generally aimed at ameliorating deficient concepts. In this paper

Technology and Civic Virtue

in common is that they may target the person and her ethical and political dispositions, her virtues. Virtue ethics is the most appropriate approach for evaluating the impacts of these new systems ... (good) political community. While knowing a rich history, civic virtue is relatively scarcely discussed in contemporary political philosophy,2 let alone in debates concerning technology (with some

On the Philosophy of Unsupervised Learning

have critically evaluated the social, economic, and political impact of automated decision systems, typically identified with supervised learning models for scoring, ranking, and classification (Gabriel ... not themselves the subject of inquiry. Unsupervised learning has received some attention in cognitive science and philosophy of mind, but even here the subject tends to get 1 These categories are not

Algorithmic Political Bias Can Reduce Political Polarization

Does algorithmic political bias contribute to an entrenchment and polarization of political positions? Franke (Philosophy and Technology, 35, 7, 2022) argues that it may do so because the bias ... , U. ( 2022 ). Algorithmic political bias - an entrenchment concern . Philosophy and Technology , 35 , 7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-022-00562-y Goddard , K. , Roudsari , A. , & Wyatt , J. C. ( 2012

Personal Autonomy and (Digital) Technology: An Enactive Sensorimotor Framework

Many digital technologies, designed and controlled by intensive data-driven corporate platforms, have become ubiquitous for many of our daily activities. This has raised political and ethical ... approach to user-centered design (2nd ed .). Taylor & Francis. Enoch , D. ( 2022 ). Autonomy as non-alienation, autonomy as sovereignty, and politics . Journal of Political Philosophy , 30 ( 2 ), 143 - 165

Artificial Intelligence in the Colonial Matrix of Power

invisible through discourses of the purported universality and objectivity of AI. ​​Through bringing the political economy literature on AI production into conversation with scholarly work on decolonial AI

Balancing Caution and the Need for Change: The General Contextual Integrity Approach

In this reply to van de Poel’s (Philosophy & Technology, 35(3), 82, 2022) commentary on O’Neill (Philosophy & Technology, 35(79), 2022), I discuss two worries about the general contextual integrity

Algorithmic Political Bias—an Entrenchment Concern

This short commentary on Peters (Philosophy & Technology 35, 2022) identifies the entrenchment of political positions as one additional concern related to algorithmic political bias, beyond those ... , University of Toronto. Nozick , R. ( 1989 ). The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations. Simon and Schuster. Peters , U. ( 2022 ). Algorithmic political bias in artificial intelligence systems . Philosophy

The Metaverse: Virtual Metaphysics, Virtual Governance, and Virtual Abundance

In his article ‘The Metaverse: Surveillant Physics, Virtual Realist Governance, and the Missing Commons,’ Andrew McStay addresses an entwinement of ethical, political, and metaphysical concerns ... p. 16). Finally, while the argument for the right to virtual abundance is natural motivated by socialist principles, it is not inextricably tied to the political philosophy of socialism. The argument

Benefitting Nonhuman Animals with AI: Why Going Beyond “Do No Harm” Is Important

(Philosophy & Technology 36:25, 2023; Section 2). Finally, I identify open research questions that need to be addressed next (Section 3). ... of us would not accept such a simplistic view of what we need for a good life for other humans, where we agree that aspects such as political or social participation and education are important for a

The Moral Significance of Privacy Dependencies

. Rumbold , B. , & Wilson, J. ( 2019 ). Privacy Rights and Public Information . Journal of Political Philosophy , 27 ( 1 ), 3 - 25 . Scanlon , T. ( 1975 ). Thomson on privacy . Philosophy and Public Affairs ... it is possible to predict people’s political preferences based on the type of car they drive. What this means is that when you share pictures displaying your face, or pictures of the car you drive, you

Towards a Pragmatic and Pluralist Framework for Energy Justice

political theory provides a stronger philosophical underpinning than was available up till now in the literature (challenge 1). Second, it allows one to go beyond the (almost exclusive) focus on injustices ... ’ commonwealth in the 1970s). 2.2 From the ‘Commonwealth’ to the ‘Common World’ So far, we have outlined the eight different commonwealths, rooted in firmly established political philosophy texts. These

Does a Person Have a Right to Attention? Depends on What She is Doing

at the margins: Posthumous rights . In M. McBride & V. A. J. Kurki (Eds.), Without Trimmings: The Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy of Matthew Kramer (pp. 51 - 72 ). Oxford University Press ... protects an agent’s ability to carry out a certain task in a certain situation. This is due to the close connection between attention and agency that has been brought forward in the philosophy of attention

Algorithmic Political Bias in Artificial Intelligence Systems

people’s social identity, for instance, their political orientation, remains largely unexplored. This paper argues that algorithmic bias against people’s political orientation can arise in some of the same

Digital Civics and Algorithmic Citizenship in a Global Scenario

rights at the center of digital civic initiatives. The second part explores the notions of political community and membership that should underpin the idea of digital civics. It argues that the diverse ... scale should be taken into consideration to define the spatial scope-or political geography-of the community to which digital civic initiatives are addressed. Digital civics is an emerging notion aimed at

Irony with a Point: Alan Turing and His Intelligent Machine Utopia

Turing made strong statements about the future of machines in society. This article asks how they can be interpreted to advance our understanding of Turing’s philosophy. His irony has been largely ... philosophy. His irony has been largely caricatured or minimized by historians, philosophers, scientists, and others. Turing is often portrayed as an irresponsible scientist, or associated with childlike

The Dialectics of Action and Technology in the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre

philosophy of technology. Throughout his works, Sartre approaches human action from different yet dialectically interrelated perspectives that are always accompanied by and developed in relation to reflections ... and the entanglement between individual agents and their sociotechnical surroundings. Furthermore, it briefly outlines some potentials of Sartre's thoughts for debates in contemporary philosophy of