Worker Well-Being, Predictive Algorithms, and Learning From Ricardo

by wpadmin | Jun 27, 2024 | Blog Post

It is not uncommon to compare the impact of AI transformation to that of the industrial revolution. Should AI turn out to bring about economic change akin to the industrial revolution, the consequences for humanity and society will be immense. All of us will be...

A Semester in Melbourne, Australia: Exploring Morality and AI

by wpadmin | Jun 25, 2024 | Blog Post

I want to tell you about my semester abroad in Australia. But first, a little background. I am Jakob, a 4th-year WASP-HS PhD student in practical philosophy at Lund University, working on a thesis titled “How to build nice robots: ethics from theory to machine...

WASP-HS Study Visit: Antidisciplinarity and its Discontents?

by wpadmin | Jun 17, 2024 | Blog Post

As part of the WASP-HS itinerary in Boston, our visits to several labs and research spaces across MIT and Harvard serendipitously centered around the Media Lab- much like design and technology initiatives in the region over the past decades. Known as one of the...

WASP-HS Study Visit: Beyond Laboratory Life in Boston

by wpadmin | May 24, 2024 | Blog Post

Over the course of two days, a bunch of us WASP-HS PhD students had the privilege of visiting five cutting-edge laboratories and research environments: the HCI Lab, SERC, MIT Media Lab, Autonomous Vehicles Policy Initiative, and the MIT Center for Constructive...

Synthetic Data – Magic Sauce or Mind the Hype?

by wpadmin | May 20, 2024 | Blog Post

In 1987 Robert Kraut, then a Bell Labs scientist, asked whether and how technology can be introduced “to exploit its usefulness without exploiting its users”. More than three decades on, we continue to wonder how to intervene in the continually evolving...