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Upcoming talks

Ada Lovelace Institute Report: Inform, educate, entertain... and recommend? Exploring the use and ethics of recommendation systems in public service media. 

• This new report, co-authored with Elliot Jones (Ada Lovelace Institute) Catherine Miller (European AI Fund), explores the ethics of recommendation systems as used in public service media organisations. These independent organisations have a mission to inform, educate and entertain the public, and are often funded by and accountable to the public. We also examine how public service media organisations are addressing the challenge of designing and implementing recommendation systems within the parameters of their mission, and identifies areas for further research into how they can accomplish this goal.

Check out my podcast interview on the Ethical challenges of recommender systems with Jeremie Harries, on the Towards Data Science podcast.

Previous talks

• Public lecture on Large Language Models in Teaching and Research, LMU Munich, 24th June 2024. AI and Epistemic Injustice, COGITO Epistemology Research Centre, Glasgow, 28th March 2024.

• Rationality without Commitment, at The First Paris Conference: Frontiers of Philosophy and Economics, Paris School of Economics, 17-18 May 2024.  

• Recommender Systems and Epistemic Polarisation, LSE Choice Group seminar, 13 March 2024. 

• Recommender Systems and Inferred Preferences: Accurate or Rational?  PhilML'23, Tübingen (Germany) 12-14 September 2023

• Recommended Bias, PPE Society Seventh Annual Meeting, New Orleans 2-4 November 2023

• Epistemic obstacles to the governance of algorithmic systems, Workshop on the Ethics of Persuasive Technologies, Oxford, 13 May 2023

• Rationality without commitment, Carnegie Mellon Philosophy Colloquium, 21 April 2023.

• Behavioural fairness, Workshop on Ethics of Influence, Oxford 3-4 October 2022.

• Epistemic obstacles to the governance of algorithmic systems, keynote lecture at the EIS Workshop on Intelligent Systems in Context, Bayreuth 11-13 July 2022.

• Trustworthy recommendations, Ethics in AI Research Seminar, Oxford, 9 March.

• 9th Oxford Workshop on Global Priorities Research, 21-22 March 2022. 

• Machine Learning in public decision making: challenges and possibilities, Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm 13-15 May. 

• Choice Group seminar, LSE, 25 May 2022.

• Invited keynote, 'Recommender Systems: Legal and Ethical Issues' Interdisciplinary Conference, Bonn, December 9th and 10th, 2021. -- CFP here

• Symposium - Serendipity and Recommender Systems 22-25 November 2021.

• Algorithmic profiling and epistemic injustice, XI Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy 9-11 June 2021.

• Epistemic fragmentation and the challenge to civic governance of AI services, Information Ethics Roundtable 5 May 2021.

• Epistemic injustice and algorithmic profiling (with C. Prunkl) Oxford Epistemology Group 18 May 2021. 

• Evaluating recommender systems, SocialBridges e-conference: The near-future of AI 21-23 April 2021. 

• Panel event with the director and team of the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, organised by the Oxford Fintech & Legaltech Society, 25 January 2021.

• Epistemic Injustice and Algorithmic Profiling. (with Carina Prunkl) Surrey Symposium on Ethics and Algorithms, 3 February 2021. 

• Two modes of reasoning and reductivism about de se beliefs. Epistemology Seminar, Ruhr Uni Bochum [via Zoom], June 2020.

• 'Ur-prior conditionalization and diachronic rationality', EPICENTER, Maasticht University, 12 December 2019.

• 'AI reshaping privacy: autonomy and dignity in the age of predictive analytics and algorithms', WLinAI 2019 conference, London 18 November 2019. 

• Internet on Tap - Personal Life and Wellbeing (part of ESRC Festival of Social Science), Oxford, 4 November 2019.

• Ethical AI: Is it possible? 10 September 2019 at Binary District, London.

• Ur-prior conditionalization, t-independence and diachronic rationality, Bayes By the Sea conference, Ancona, 30-31 August 2019.

• Recommender Systems and their Ethical Challenges, Mathematics in Society speaker series, Oxford (20 June 2019) 

• Recommender Systems and their Ethical Challenges, Workshop on 'Evaluating Extreme Technological Risk', CSER Cambridge (June 2019)

• Bayesian Beauty, Formal Epistemology and Decision Theory Workshop, 24 May 2019, Bristol

• Recommender Systems and their Ethical Challenges, The Ethics and Politics of Online Interaction, Oxford (14-15 May 2019)

• "Bayesian Beauty", Invited talk at the Logic Colloquium, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (April 2019)

• "What is a good recommendation? Recommender Systems and their ethical challenges", invited talk at the Choice Group, LSE (27 March 2019)

• "Bayesian Beauty", Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting, Seattle (November 2018) 

• "Bayesian Beauty", 34th Annual CHPS Conference - CU Boulder (October 2018)

• "Bayesian Beauty", SIFA, Novara (September 2018)

• "Bayesian Beauty", the British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, Oxford (July 2018)

• "Bayesian Beauty", Eighth annual Edinburgh graduate epistemology conference, (June 2018)

• "Bayesian Beauty", Early Lunch Philosophy (ELP), Konstanz (June 2018)

• "Moss on 'Updating as Communication",  masterclass on Probabilistic Knowledge, KCL, 6-7 March 2018