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ARTificial Intelligence - Show me a Story About AI Project
27 September 2024
The project, ARTificial Intelligence - Show me a Story About AI, goes live today. The project explores the impact of AI in the creative industries.
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On this project, I am part of a multi-disciplinary team of social scientists, digital researchers and humanities scholars investigating the impact of AI from the perspectives of creative communities.
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Philosophically, the project will explore questions of the effects of AI technology on aesthetic concepts such as creativity and imagination.
Publication - Towards a Non-Reliance Commitment Account of Trust
May 28 2024
My research paper, "Towards a Non-Reliance Commitment Account of Trust" was published in The Journal of Value Inquiry.​
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In this paper, I argue against the common view that trust is a special form of reliance. I then develop an attitude-based, commitment account of trust where to trust is to make the following judgement with a counterfactual as its content: "If I were to rely on Y to keep a commitment, then Y would keep that commitment."
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You can read my paper here.
Publication - Two Kinds of Vaccine Hesitancy
April 16 2024
My joint research paper with Professor Tom Sorrell, "Two Kinds of Vaccine Hesitancy" was published in Social Epistemology.
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The paper examines the reasonableness of vaccine hesitancy with respect to two things. First, regarding scientifically open questions about the safety and efficacy of vaccines; second, regarding institutional distrust by minority groups due to historical injustice.
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You can read our paper here.