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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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
You can read our paper here.