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 […]
Privacy, Autonomy, and Personalised Targeting: rethinking how personal data is used. Karina Vold and Jess Whittlestone. Volume on Data, Privacy, and the Individual in the Digital Age. Center for the Governance on Change. The last years established beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are living through a crucial historical moment regarding privacy. Two […]
Supporting human autonomy in AI systems: A framework for ethical enquiry, Rafael A. Calvo, Dorian Peters, Karina Vold, Richard M. Ryan. In Christopher Burr & Luciano Floridi (eds.), Ethics of Digital Well-being: A Multidisciplinary Approach. (forthcoming). Autonomy has been central to moral and political philosophy for millenia, and has been positioned as a critical aspect […]
How we can extend our minds with AI: Philosophical Disquisitions podcast, hosted by Professor John Danaher. A discussion in which Karina Vold and John Danaher discuss the ethics of extended cognition and how it pertains to the use of artificial intelligence. Download Podcast
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. […]
