Tag Archives: philosophy
Calling all researchers: ACM FAT*2020
Dear social scientists and philosophers: this is a message for you. In January 2020 the second ACM Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (ACMFAT*) conference will be held in Barcelona. This is important for two reasons: it will be the first time this conference is held in Europe, and it will be the first time that contributions […]
The trolley problem problem
*this post was inspired by a conference workshop on education and responsible data science, run by the Digital Society initiative, a collective of Dutch universities working together to shape the relationship between data science and society.* A rash of studies have come out recently about the trolley problem. This is the famous philosphical conundrum where […]
My new project: Data Justice
I’ve had some good news: I heard this summer that I am going to receive an ERC grant from the European Research Council. This means I get to do five years’ work on the idea of data justice (the link leads to a paper that explains in more detail what this might be). There are […]
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