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Alex John London is the Clara L. West Professor of Ethics and Philosophy and Director of the Center for Ethics and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. An elected Fellow of the Hastings Center, Professor London’s work focuses on ethical and policy issues surrounding the development and deployment of novel technologies in medicine, biotechnology and artificial intelligence, on methodological issues in theoretical and practical ethics, and on cross-national issues of justice and fairness. Professor London’s work in ethics and AI focuses on structural obstacles to safe and effective technologies and mechanisms for ensuring social trust, accountability and non-domination. This includes work on the nature of bias in algorithms and the disconnect between technical uses of this concept and ethical benchmarks. He has critiqued requirements of explainability and interpretability in the medical context and argued instead that accountability and freedom from arbitrary interference are better served by institutions and process for validating claims about what AI systems can do, clarifying the contexts under which those claims hold and when they do not. London was a member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Group on Ethics and Governance of AI whose report “Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health” was published in 2021.

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Alex John London
Clara L. West Professor of Ethics and Philosophy, Director of the Center for Ethics & Policy
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From Automation to Autonomy and the Ubiquity of Moral Decision Making
Abstract:  I argue that there is an important sense in which all decisions are moral decisions and I explore some implications of this insight (and its denial) for the design and human impacts of increasingly complex automated systems and emerging autonomous systems.  This insight is obscured when we think about automated systems by the social division of labor between designers and users.  When we think about autonomous systems it is obscured by a misplaced focus on moral dilemmas (e.g., trolly problems).  I will discuss different roles for moral values in decision making (e.g., as filters on choice, as utilities, and as defaults), how those values are encoded in social practices in which automated systems are imbedded and deep challenges to making autonomous systems that can navigate them intelligently.

Bio:  Alex John London is the Clara L. West Professor of Ethics and Philosophy and Director of the Center for Ethics and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Professor London is an elected Fellow of the Hastings Center whose work focuses on ethical and policy issues surrounding the development and deployment of novel technologies in medicine, biotechnology and artificial intelligence, methodological issues in theoretical and practical ethics, and cross-national issues of justice and fairness. His papers have appeared in Science, Mind, JAMA, The Lancet, PLoS Medicine, IEEE Intelligent Systems, and numerous other journals and collections.  He has served as an ethics expert in consultations with numerous national and international organizations including U.S. National Institutes of Health, the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, the World Health Organization, the World Medical Association, and the World Bank.

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