The ethics of AI, moral responsibility, and free will

Researcher: Fabio Tollon

Postdoctoral researcher as part of the BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) Programme.

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Research Areas of Expertise:

Ethics of AI, moral responsibility, philosophy of technology, free will, philosophy of mind

Project Description:

BRAID is a 3-year national research programme funded by the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), led by the University of Edinburgh in partnership with the Ada Lovelace Institute and the BBC. BRAID is dedicated to integrating Arts, Humanities and Social Science research more fully into the Responsible AI ecosystem, as well as bridging the divides between academic, industry, policy and regulatory work on responsible AI.

Key Publications:

Journal Articles:

‘Reactive agency and technology.’ AI Ethics, 2023. 🔗

‘Free Will as an Epistemically Innocent False Belief.’ European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 19 (2), 2023.

‘Responsibility gaps and the reactive attitudes.’ AI and Ethics, (3), pp 295-302, 2022.

‘On and Beyond Artifacts in Moral Relations: Accounting for Power and Violence in Coeckelbergh’s Social Relationism.’ AI & Society (with Kiasha Naidoo), 2021.

‘Do others mind? Moral agents without mental states.’ South African Journal of Philosophy, 40 (2), 182 194, 2021.

‘Designed to Seduce: Epistemically Retrograde Ideation and YouTube's Recommender System.’ International Journal of Technoethics (IJT), 12 (2), 60-71, 2021.

‘Artifacts and Affordances: From Designed Properties to Possibilities for Action,’ AI & Society, (37), pp 239-248, 2021.

‘The Artificial View: toward a non-anthropocentric account of moral patiency.’ Ethics and Information Technology. (23), pp 147-155, 2021.

‘Toward a Coherent Account of Moral Agency.’ Proceedings of the South African Forum for Artificial Intelligence Research. Vol 2540, 2019.

Book Chapters:

Social Robots and Relational Capacities. In: Hakli, R., Mäkelä, P., Seibt, J. (eds.) Social Robots in Social Institutions. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 366. IOS Press. 2023.

Answerability, Accountability, and the Demands of Responsibility. In: Pillay, A., Jembere, E., Gerber, A. (eds) Artificial Intelligence Research. SACAIR 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1734. Springer, Cham. 2022.

Is AI a Problem for Forward Looking Moral Responsibility? The Problem Followed by a Solution. In: Jembere, E.; Gerber, A.J.; Viriri, S. & Pillay A. (eds), Artificial Intelligence Research. SACAIR 2021 Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 1551. Springer: Cham. 307–318. 2022.

Book Reviews:

Transhumanism as a New Social Movement: The Techno-Centred Imagination, Metapsychology Online Reviews, Vol. 24 (39). 2020.

The Oxford Handbook of the Ethics of AI, Prometheus, Vol. 37 (2). 2021

Action and Interaction, Metapsychology Online Reviews, Vol. 25 (16). 2021.

Cyber Republic, Prometheus, Vol. 37, (3). 2021.