Where algorithmic bias is a technical issue that can be solved, at least in theory, the question of how AI alters the abilities that define human beings is more fundamental. We have been studying this question for the last few years as part of the Artificial Intelligence and Experience project at UMass Boston’s Applied Ethics Center.
Losing the ability to choose
Aristotle argued that the capacity for making practical judgments depends on regularly making them – on habit and practice. We see the emergence of machines as substitute judges in a variety of workaday contexts as a potential threat to people learning how to effectively exercise judgment themselves.
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Catherine Porter, The New York Times Published: 22 Feb 2021 01:55 AM BdST Updated: 22 Feb 2021 01:55 AM BdST An Air Canada employee prepares to take a COVID-19 test at the Toronto airport in Jan. 22, 2021. A consortium of some of Canada’s largest companies, representing 350,000 employees nationwide, has launched a rapid testing program aimed at reopening their economy. (Tara Walton/The New York Times) Anita Quidangen, right, and other health care workers at the Rekai Centres in Toronto, after receiving their vaccines, on Dec. 14, 2020. As nursing home employees received the first vaccinations on Monday, memories of the pandemic’s first wave left some overwhelmed with emotion. (Brett Gundlock/The New York Times)
Conversations in Exile with Dominic A. Sisti, PhD and Martine Kieffer, MSW, LCSW
February 22 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Dominic A. Sisti is assistant professor and director of the Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Healthcare in the Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy. Martine Kieffer, MSW, LCSW is a social worker who works in Trauma,…
Dominic A. Sisti is assistant professor and director of the Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Healthcare in the Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy. Martine Kieffer, MSW, LCSW is a social worker who works in Trauma, Addiction, and Spiritual issues. They will explore the mental health effects of working in content moderation for social media platforms. The conversation will be moderated by Theatre Exile Interim Associate Artistic Director, Brey Ann Barrett.
Positive Coronavirus Test? Canadians Worry Their Neighbors Will Find Out
The fear of public shaming is becoming so prevalent in some Canadian provinces that doctors worry it is driving virus cases underground.
Cortland Cronk moved to Victoria, British Columbia, after being publicly shamed in his home province of New Brunswick.Credit.Jackie Dives for The New York Times
For a time, Cortland Cronk, 26, was Canada’s most famous and infamous coronavirus patient.
Mr. Cronk, a traveling salesman, went viral after testing positive in November and recounting his story of being infected while traveling for work to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.