Data Sciences, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence (DCAI) Ethics Collaboratory
Emerging information technologies are transforming social, economic, political and
legal systems. As a result, the way we think about liability, trust, ownership, responsibility,
justice, and sovereignty is changing. Managing these transformations now requires
both technical and philosophical innovation. The DCAI Ethics Collaboratory (a part
of the 海角社区 Ethics Institute) fosters cross-disciplinary research at the intersection
of ethics, artificial intelligence, data science, and cybersecurity. Our unique backgrounds
and wide-ranging knowledge of the issues involved allow us to research, identify,
and ameliorate ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) in emerging information
technologies.
The DCAI Ethics Collaboratory produces white papers, peer-reviewed scholarly research,
and course modules for undergraduate and graduate courses in STEM. They collaborate
with scientists and practitioners on research design, ethics plans, ELSI, and broader
impacts statements for NSF and other major grant-making bodies.
Participating Faculty
Deborah Goldgaber
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Director, 海角社区 Ethics Institute
Hire Date: 8/2014
Areas of Interest: Applied Professional Ethics, Philosophy of Technology, Data Ethics
Since 2019, Professor Goldgaber has served as director of the 海角社区 Ethics Institute, piloting initiatives on Ethical AI in computer science, agriculture, Biotechnology (cardiovascular digital twins), Data Ethics and Cybersecurity in collaboration with the 海角社区 Cyber Center. A recipient of grants from the NSF and the LA Board of Regents, she works with STEM faculty to expand moral literacy across STEM fields through innovative partnerships with the humanities. She is a co-PI on the recently awarded NSF POSE II ($1.5M) and the 海角社区 NAS Gulf Scholars Program.
Anthony Kelley
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Associate Director, 海角社区 Ethics Institute
Hire Date: 8/2022
Areas of Interest: Practical and Theoretical Ethics
Dr. Kelley is an affiliate faculty member of the 海角社区 Cybersecurity Center and associate director of the 海角社区 Ethics Institute. He works mostly in theoretical and practical ethics, especially as it relates to the philosophy of well-being. His recent work is on topics in the philosophy of emerging technologies. He is also the organizer of the Data Sciences, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence (DCAI) Ethics Reading Group which begins in Fall 2024 with the aim of facilitating a campus-wide conversation regarding individual rights, privacy, human flourishing, and the responsible use of technology.
Lauren Horn Griffin
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Hire Date: 8/2022
Areas of Interest: Religion, Media, and Technology; Religion and Politics
Dr. Griffin studies the socio-technical forces that are profoundly remaking ourselves and our social world. Her current book project looks at how algorithmically driven platforms are starting to reshape how we view ourselves as religious subjects and the concept of religion itself. She also teaches courses on religion and AI, and digital religion.
Michael Ardoline
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Hire Date: 8/2024
Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Science
Dr. Ardoline is an affiliate faculty member of the 海角社区 Cybersecurity Center. He teaches courses on science, technology, and human values. As part of the Embedding Ethics in STEM @海角社区 (EESTEM) project, he has developed several ethics modules. He presents and publishes on the metaphysics and ethics of emerging technologies, and is currently working on a monograph entitled Interiority Against Control: Virtue Ethics and Subjectivation in Control Societies.
Recent Grant Activity
- NSF POSE: Phase II: Nexus: Harnessing Open HPC through HPX, ($1.5M awarded)
- NSF 海角社区 ADVANCE ($3M, pending)
- NSF FTD Biotech: Framework for Regulatory Assessment and Medical Ethics for Cardiovascular Digital Twins (FRAME-CVT) ($680K) pending
- ATLAS, $50k
Recent Peer-Reviewed Research
- Deborah Goldgaber, 鈥溾��
- Deborah Goldgaber, 鈥淓thics of AI and Automation in Digital Agriculture,鈥� Choices AAEA (forthcoming)
- Deborah Goldgaber, 鈥淎nalogies or Ontologies? On the 鈥楿nreasonable Effectiveness鈥� of 鈥楥ode鈥� in the History of the Life Sciences,鈥� The Oxford Literary Review 45 (2024): 186-207
- Anthony Kelley, 鈥淪ubjective Theories of Ill-Being,鈥� Midwest Studies in Philosophy 46 (2022): 109-35
- Anthony Kelley, 鈥淭he Welfare-Nihilist Arguments Against Judgment Subjectivism,鈥� Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 19 (2021): 291-310
- Michael Ardoline, Deleuze, Mathematics, Metaphysics: Difference and Necessity. (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
- Michael Ardoline, 鈥淓xtending Intensions: Deleuze and Guattari鈥檚 Critique of Formal Logic,鈥� Deleuze and Guattari Studies (forthcoming)
- Michael Ardoline, 鈥淏uilding a Way: Becoming Active in One鈥檚 Own Subjectivation Through Deleuze and Xunzi,鈥� Philosophies 7 (2022). 1-16
- Lauren Horn Griffin, 鈥淢ediatizing Religion: Affective Publics and Epistemological Populism in #RosaryExtremist,鈥� Religion Compass (forthcoming)
- Lauren Horn Griffin, 鈥淗ow #Trad Media Challenge the Current Discourse on Christian Nationalism,鈥� Journal of Religion and Media (forthcoming)
- Lauren Horn Griffin, "The 鈥楧iscipline鈥� of the Humanities: Religion, Privacy, and Contemporary Nationalist Ideology,鈥� in Discourses of Crisis and the Study of Religion, ed. Lauren Horn Griffin (Equinox, forthcoming)
- Lauren Horn Griffin, ed., Discourses of Crisis and the Study of Religion (Equinox, forthcoming)
- Lauren Horn Griffin, "The Illusion of #RadTrad Identity," American Examples: New Conversations About Religion, Volume Three, ed. Michael Altman (University of Alabama Press, 2024), 33-51
- Lauren Horn Griffin, Fabricating Founders: History, Rhetoric, and the Arrival of Christianity in England, Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 22 (Brill, 2023)
Teaching
The DCAI Ethics Collaboratory produces Embedding Ethics in STEM @ 海角社区 Course Modules. Several of which included cybersecurity ethics as the central focus, including:
- 鈥淧rivacy and Proxy Variables in Biosensor Design鈥� for the Biological and Agricultural Engineering department
- 鈥淥nline Authenticity鈥� for the Information Sciences and Analytics department
- 鈥淒ata Ethics: Introduction鈥�
Members have recently taught classes on AI ethics with data-security components, and members are currently developing classes including 鈥淗uman Flourishing in the Digital Age,鈥� 鈥淪cience, Technology and Human Values and an AI through Film,鈥� 鈥淓thics of Emerging Technologies,鈥� and 鈥淩eligion and AI.鈥�