AI is a potentially transformative technology. The use of AI carries immense potential to improve people’s lives, but also threatens to undermine justice and democracy in our society. AI systems can exhibit bias against marginalized groups, entrench and expand existing oppressive hierarchies, threaten the livelihoods and power of workers, and undermine our understanding of the social and technical systems that structure our society. CDE’s AI ethics research, such as that led by Will Fleisher, Laura DeNardis, and Amanda Levendowski, is focused on understanding the opportunities and risks of this technology, in order to understand what it would take to employ these systems justly and legitimately in a democratic society.
Ethics and Epistemology of AI, Algorithmic Fairness, Explainable AI
Fleisher, Will (2022). Understanding, Idealization, and Explainable AI. Episteme 19 (4):534-560.
Fleisher, Will (2023). Intellectual courage and inquisitive reasons. Philosophical Studies 180 (4):1343-1371.
Fleisher quoted on AI in The Windsor Star on May 2, 2023
Generative AI
“What Makes Us Human in the Age of AI” — Panel co-sponsored by the GU Humanities Initiative, February 14, 2024
Professor DeNardis gave an AI policy briefing at the Russell Senate Office Building on Sept. 8, 2023.
On Friday, April 21, 2023 three Center for Digital Ethics (CDE) faculty members spoke to a standing-room-only audience in a panel titled “AI Chat: Crisis or Human Evolution?” at John Carroll Weekend 2023 in San Francisco, CA.
AI and Intellectual Property and Copyright Law; AI Intelligence Bias
Video: “Office Hours” discussing ChatGPT’s connection with copyright law and the question of AI-generated work ownership
Amanda Levendowski, How Copyright Law Can Fix Artificial Intelligence’s Implicit Bias Problem, 93 Wash. L. Rev. 579-630 (2018). [WWW] [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
Amanda Levendowski, Note, Using Copyright to Combat Revenge Porn, 3 N.Y.U. J. Intell. Prop. & Ent. L. 422-446 (2014). [WWW] [Gtown Law] [HEIN] [W] [L] [SSRN]
