Tuesday, November 5, 2024, online, by invitation only
As Gasser and Mayer-Schönberger argue in their book Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI, the problem of decision-making is tending to become the problem of digital technology as a whole. Indeed, it seems that the digitization of everyday practices can increasingly be understood as a mechanism for delegating decisions to machines, with the corollary need for increased circulation of personal information.
Based on this observation, the aim of this 49th workshop will be to explore the theoretical implications of an analysis of the digital as a decision-making machine, and how the “trust” we place in this machine is articulated.
In particular, Jean-Baptiste Ghins, PhD student in philosophy, will present an argument covering two issues:
- What experience of decision-making is "entrusted" to platforms, and
- To what extent can our digital identity be understood as the medium that guarantees these decisions legitimacy?
We will close by asking, in an open-ended way, what AI changes in relation to the internet of platforms as regards the question of automatic decision-making.
Jean-Baptiste GHINS is a doctoral student in philosophy at the UC Louvain, where he is completing his thesis under the supervision of Mark Hunyadi, Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at UCL.
His research is funded by the Values and Policies of Personal Information Chair.