Dr. Karina Vold is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. Before this she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, from 2017-2020. Currently, Vold is also a Research Lead at the U of T Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, an AI2050 Early Career Fellow with the Schmidt Futures Foundation, a Faculty Associate at the U of T Centre for Ethics, and an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Vold specialises in Philosophy of Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, and her recent research has focused on human autonomy, cognitive enhancement, extended cognition, and the risks and ethics of AI. More information about her work can be found on her webpage.
A Citizen’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence: John Zerilli, Karina Vold, Jonnie Penn in conversation. 26 April 2021. A recording of this live webinar. Join three of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence’s philosophers for a conversation on themes arising from John Zerilli et al.’s new book, A Citizen’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence. Up […]
Responsible AI – Two Frameworks for Ethical Design Practice. IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society ( Volume: 1 , Issue: 1 , March 2020) Abstract:In 2019, the IEEE launched the P7000 standards projects intended to address ethical issues in the design of autonomous and intelligent systems. This move came amidst a growing public concern over the unintended consequences […]
The potential harms of online targeting. Evidence submitted to the UK Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.43213 Abstract: Despite increasing attention being paid to the potential harms of online targeting over the last year, there is still a lack of clarity over what precisely those harms are. To help address this lack of clarity, this submission […]
AI Extenders: The Ethical and Societal Implications of Humans Cognitively Extended by AI The Second AAAI / ACM Annual Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 26-28 January 2019, Hawaii USA Humans and AI systems are usually portrayed as separate systems that we need to align in values and goals. However, there is a great deal […]
Assessing the impact of machine intelligence on human behaviour: an interdisciplinary endeavour Proceedings of 1st HUMAINT workshop, Barcelona, Spain, March 5-6, 2018 This document contains the outcome of the first Human behaviour and machine intelligence (HUMAINT) workshop that took place 5-6 March 2018 in Barcelona, Spain. The workshop was organized in the context of a […]
Investigating the nature and function of consciousness in humans, animals, and AI. The nature and function of consciousness is one of the most important outstanding problems of human science, and connects closely with ethical issues such as our treatment of animals, the welfare of patients in persistent vegetative states, and even the moral status of […]
This project explores the nature and future of AI agency and personhood, and its impact on our human sense of what it means to be a person. This project has four strands: Models of agency By drawing on work about familiar kinds of non-human agents (eg corporations, or nations), we may learn useful lessons about the […]
Exploring how human intelligence, consciousness, and cognition are augmented by the digital technologies we use. What effect is technology having on our intelligence? Socrates argued that it would have a diminishing effect, but recently much philosophical attention has focused on the ways in which technology enhances and extends human cognitive capacities. Even simple technologies, such […]
This project explores the ethics of technologies aimed at augmenting human intelligence. Humans have a long tradition of augmenting biological capacities through artifacts: running shoes improve our physical capacities, binoculars enhance our vision, and calculators boost our mathematical skills. But the technologies we use are rapidly becoming more sophisticated, more personalized, and even more invasive. […]
