StephenHilgartner
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Prof. of Science & Technology Studies #STS / Politics and social studies of science, technology and knowledge / @ Cornell U.
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Wrote an editorial about the famed Asilomar conference (celebrating its 50th anniversary) saying it "made it more difficult for scientists to take seriously global public concerns about emerging technologies, which has impeded governance and eroded trust in science." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Viewing Asilomar from the Global South
To many in the scientific community, the 1975 Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA stands as a singular achievement. This experiment in governance seemed to demonstrate that citizens could trust sci...
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January 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Wrote an editorial about the famed Asilomar conference (celebrating its 50th anniversary) saying it "made it more difficult for scientists to take seriously global public concerns about emerging technologies, which has impeded governance and eroded trust in science." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Focusing on the use-case as the locus of AI ethics--as opposed to the product, the AI process, or the program of AI R&D--tends to target users for ethical evaluation and exempt AI developers and deployers from scrutiny.
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Stephen Hilgartner is the Frederic J. Whiton Professor of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University. See more about his work here.
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December 1, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Focusing on the use-case as the locus of AI ethics--as opposed to the product, the AI process, or the program of AI R&D--tends to target users for ethical evaluation and exempt AI developers and deployers from scrutiny.