Shannon Vallor

ORCID: 0000-0001-7036-5222
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Research Areas
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
  • Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
  • Free Will and Agency
  • History of Computing Technologies
  • Ethics in medical practice
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Media, Religion, Digital Communication
  • Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
  • Cognitive Science and Education Research
  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
  • Digital Education and Society
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • War, Ethics, and Justification
  • Ethics in Business and Education
  • AI in Service Interactions

University of Edinburgh
2020-2025

Avenir Health
2024

Futures Group (United States)
2024

Institute for Futures Studies
2024

Language Science (South Korea)
2024

Google (United States)
2020

Santa Clara University
2008-2019

In September 2021, the "One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence" project (AI100) issued second report of its planned long-term periodic assessment artificial intelligence (AI) and impact society. It was written by a panel 17 study authors, each whom is deeply rooted in AI research, chaired Michael Littman Brown University. The report, entitled "Gathering Strength, Gathering Storms," answers set 14 questions probing critical areas development addressing major risks dangers AI,...

10.48550/arxiv.2210.15767 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd arXiv (Cornell University) 2022-01-01

This paper focuses on the opportunities and ethical societal risks posed by advanced AI assistants. We define assistants as artificial agents with natural language interfaces, whose function is to plan execute sequences of actions behalf a user, across one or more domains, in line user's expectations. The starts considering technology itself, providing an overview assistants, their technical foundations potential range applications. It then explores questions around value alignment,...

10.48550/arxiv.2404.16244 preprint EN arXiv (Cornell University) 2024-04-24

10.1007/s10676-009-9202-1 article EN Ethics and Information Technology 2009-08-10

10.1007/s10676-010-9262-2 article EN Ethics and Information Technology 2011-01-07

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10.1007/s11023-024-09674-0 article EN cc-by Minds and Machines 2024-06-05

Abstract This paper develops a phenomenological defense of Ian Hacking's experimental realism about unobservable entities in physical science, employing historically undervalued resources from the tradition order to clarify warrant for our ontological commitments science. Building upon work Husserl, Merleau‐Ponty and Heelan, provides correction positivistic conception perceptual evidence maintained by antirealists such as van Fraassen, relevance which is illustrated through interpretation...

10.1080/00201740802661478 article EN Inquiry 2009-02-01

As the rapid industrialization of generative AI (GenAI) reached a crescendo in fall 2023, series international policy initiatives, like UK Safety Summit and G7's Hiroshima Process, cropped up as response to corresponding global governance challenges. The policymakers government officials, who drove these emphasized that rise 'frontier AI' technologies was bringing humankind historical inflection point—placing humanity at crossroads situating present generation an axis choice which would...

10.1162/99608f92.4a42495c article EN cc-by Harvard data science review 2024-06-03

Encouraging students to become comfortable exercising ethical discernment in a professional context with their peers.

10.1145/2566966 article EN Communications of the ACM 2014-02-26

Recent generative AI systems have demonstrated more advanced persuasive capabilities and are increasingly permeating areas of life where they can influence decision-making. Generative presents a new risk profile persuasion due the opportunity for reciprocal exchange prolonged interactions. This has led to growing concerns about harms from how be mitigated, highlighting need systematic study persuasion. The current definitions unclear related insufficiently studied. Existing harm mitigation...

10.48550/arxiv.2404.15058 preprint EN arXiv (Cornell University) 2024-04-23
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