PinnedTravis GreeneinTowards Data ScienceData Scientists and the Ethics of PowerWhat kind of power do data scientists wield and what are the ethical implications?Apr 16, 20203Apr 16, 20203
Travis GreeneinDataSeriesIt’s Time the US Created an AI Protection Agency to Regulate AI… Here’s HowA proposal for leveraging the institutional strengths of Congress, courts, and federal agencies while fostering greater civic engagement…Apr 21, 2022Apr 21, 2022
Travis GreeneinTowards Data ScienceAlgorithmic Behavior Modification by Big Tech is Crippling Academic Data Science ResearchHow major platforms use persuasive tech to manipulate our behavior and increasingly stifle socially-meaningful academic data science…Apr 19, 2022Apr 19, 2022
Travis GreeneinTowards Data ScienceCorporate Imperatives and the Future of AI, Part IIUS corporate law and the dangerous instrumental reasoning of both tech corporations and reinforcement-learning agentsFeb 1, 2022Feb 1, 2022
Travis GreeneVeganism, Moral Progress, and the Expanding CircleHow embracing veganism can help us see our relationship with animals and food in a new lightJan 22, 2022Jan 22, 2022
Travis GreeneinTowards Data ScienceAI Ethics: Conflicting Visions of Algorithmic PersonalizationPersonalization as a tool for optimal control of humans or a path to human emancipation?Jan 12, 2022Jan 12, 2022
Travis GreeneinTowards Data ScienceCorporate Imperatives and the Future of AI, Part IHas economic ideology co-opted AI research and development?Oct 8, 20211Oct 8, 20211
Travis GreeneinTowards Data ScienceCan We Bridge the “Two Cultures” of Data Science?The role of facts and values in science and how data science risks splitting into two culturesJan 15, 20211Jan 15, 20211
Travis GreeneinTowards Data ScienceIntro to Post-Structuralist French Philosophy for Data Scientists (Part II)Derrida on data, context, representation, and the nature of BeingDec 9, 2020Dec 9, 2020
Travis GreeneinTowards Data ScienceThe Philosophical Foundations of AI, Part III: Structure, Story vs. Reason, and Cartesian DualismHow do structure and meaning relate, and how do we explain the existence of such structures? By story or by reason?Dec 7, 2020Dec 7, 2020