Thoughts on Fiduciary AI | Digifesto
“Designing Fiduciary Artificial Intelligence”, by myself and David Shekman, is now on arXiv. We’re very excited to have had it accepted to Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechani…| Digifesto
Push has come to shove, and I have started building something new. I’m not building it alone, thank God, but it’s a very petite open source project at the moment. I’m convinced that it is actually something new. Some of my colleagues are excited to hear that what I’m building will exist for them shortly. […]| Digifesto
For the private sector, there is a well-developed theory of loyalty that shows up in fiduciary duties. I and others have argued that these duties of loyalty are the right tool to bring artificial intelligence systems (and the companies that produce them) into “alignment” with those that employ them. At the time of this writing […]| Digifesto
Complex systems theory is a way of thinking about systems with many interacting parts and functions. It draws on physics and the science of modeling dynamic systems. It’s a trans-disciplinary, quantitative science of everything. It often and increasingly gets applied to social systems, often through the methods of agent-based modeling (ABM). ABM has a long […]| Digifesto
Some years ago I entered a PhD program with the intention to become a Scientist. I had some funny ideas about what this meant that were more informed by reading philosophy than by scientific practice. By Science, I was thinking of something more like the German Wissenschaft than what are by and large more narrowly […]| Digifesto
I miss writing. For most of my formative years, writing was an important activity in my life. I would try to articulate what I cared about, the questions I had, what I was excited for. Often this was done as an intellectual pursuit, something para-academic, a search for answers beyond any curriculum, and without a […]| Digifesto
A recent Dear Colleagues Letter from the National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) calls for proposals for projects to envision research priorities. It is specifically not for research itself, but for promising ways to surface and communicate new R&D directions. Essentially, the CISE directorate is asking for people to […]| Digifesto
Through a few new emerging projects and opportunities, I’ve had reason to circle back to the topic of Artificial Intelligence and ethics. I wanted to jot down a few notes as some recent reading and conversations have been clarifying some ideas here. In my work with Jake Goldenfein on this topic (published 2021), we framed […]| Digifesto
Last week I spoke at PyData NYC 2023 about “Computational Open Source Economics: The State of the Art”. It was a very nice conference, packed with practical guidance on using Python in machine learning workflows, interesting people, and some talks that were further afield. Mine was the most ‘academic’ talk that I saw there: it […]| Digifesto
I was once long ago asked to write a review of Philip Tetlock’s Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? (2006) and was, like a lot of people, very impressed. If you’re not familiar with the book, the gist is that Tetlock, a psychologist, runs a 20 year study asking everybody […]| Digifesto
“Designing Fiduciary Artificial Intelligence”, by myself and David Shekman, is now on arXiv. We’re very excited to have had it accepted to Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechani…| Digifesto
