Justin B. Biddle

About

I am an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the director of the Ethics, Technology, and Human Interaction Center, and a Faculty Affiliate in the Georgia Tech Center for Machine Learning. I lead a team to facilitate the early identification and management of potential ethical and societal consequences of AI-enabled manufacturing systems. My research explores the relationships between values in science, technology, and medicine; the epistemic implications of the social organization of research; and ethics and policy, particularly in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Engineering
• Law
• Public relations
• Management science
• Public administration
• Epistemology
• Management

Selected publications

• What's Next for AI Ethics, Policy, and Governance? A Global Overview

  2020 · 164 citations

  Since 2016, more than 80 AI ethics documents - including codes, principles, frameworks, and policy strategies - have been produced by corporations, governments, and NGOs. In this paper, we examine three topics of importance related to our ongoing empirical study of ethics and policy issues in these emerging documents. First, we review possible challenges associated with the relative homogeneity of the documents' creators. Second, we provide a novel typology of motivations to characterize both ob…

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• AI Ethics in the Public, Private, and NGO Sectors: A Review of a Global Document Collection

  IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society · 2021 · 128 citations

  In recent years, numerous public, private, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have produced documents addressing the ethical implications of artificial intelligence (AI). These normative documents include principles, frameworks, and policy strategies that articulate the ethical concerns, priorities, and associated strategies of leading organizations and governments around the world. We examined 112 such documents from 25 countries that were produced between 2016 and the middle of 2019. Wh…

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• Climate skepticism and the manufacture of doubt: can dissent in science be epistemically detrimental?

  European Journal for Philosophy of Science · 2015-06-18 · 108 citations

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• The Geography of Epistemic Risk

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2017-06-22 · 88 citations

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  At each stage of inquiry, actions, choices, and judgments carry with them a chance that they will lead to mistakes and false conclusions. One of the most vigorously discussed kinds of epistemic risk is inductive risk—that is, the risk of inferring a false positive or a false negative from statistical evidence. This chapter develops a more fine-grained typology of epistemic risks and argues that many of the epistemic risks that have been classified as inductive risks are actually better seen as e…

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• On Predicting Recidivism: Epistemic Risk, Tradeoffs, and Values in Machine Learning

  Canadian Journal of Philosophy · 2020 · 59 citations

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  Abstract Recent scholarship in philosophy of science and technology has shown that scientific and technological decision making are laden with values, including values of a social, political, and/or ethical character. This paper examines the role of value judgments in the design of machine-learning (ML) systems generally and in recidivism-prediction algorithms specifically. Drawing on work on inductive and epistemic risk, the paper argues that ML systems are value laden in ways similar to human…

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Frequent coauthors

• Daniel Schiff

  Purdue University System

  12 shared

• Jason Borenstein

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  12 shared

• Kelly Laas

  12 shared

• Laura North

  2 shared

• Philip Shapira

  2 shared

• Ronan A Lyons

  Swansea University

  2 shared

• John P. Nelson

  2 shared

• Anna Leuschner

  University of Wuppertal

  2 shared

Education

• Ph.D., History and Philosophy of Science

  University of Notre Dame

• M.A., History and Philosophy of Science

  University of Notre Dame

Awards & honors

• Senior Fellow of SOCRATES (“Social Credibility and Trustwort…
• Distinguished Fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advance…

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