Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre

Automated Gatekeepers: How Recommender Systems Shape and Constrain Autonomy This chapter explores the impact of recommender systems on autonomy. We draw on feminist relational approaches to argue that recommender systems can threaten autonomy in four key ways. (i) Recommender...

How do algorithms shape us? 🤖

My new chapter with Natalie Stoljar, "Automated Gatekeepers," is out! We analyze how recommender systems negatively impact autonomy,and how they could be redesigned to support it.

Read it here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

#Philosophy #AI #Ethics

Our upcoming December workshop on the Ethics of Griefbots has a poster!

Looking forward to hosting the event with @jocelynmaclure.bsky.social and @hugocl.bsky.social at
@UofTEthics.bsky.social

Thanks to our sponsors @UofT-IHPST.bsky.social @forea-virtue.bsky.social and
@torontosri.bsky.social

🎉New Publication! 🎉
My paper on relational egalitarianism & wrongful indirect discrimination is out in Law & Philosophy!

Available in full here: rdcu.be/emKzl

#discrimination #philosophy #philosohyoflaw #relationalequality #equality

Read only version can be found here!

rdcu.be/ekNZH

Neither Direct, Nor Indirect: Understanding Proxy-Based Algorithmic Discrimination - The Journal of Ethics Discrimination is typically understood to be either direct or indirect. However, we argue that some cases that clearly are instances of discrimination are neither direct nor indirect. This is not just...

My paper, co-authored with Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, on how AI challenges traditional conceptions of discrimination is now published in The Journal of Ethics!

Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Work-in-Progress Session- Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre: "Can AI Systems Hold Wrongful Beliefs? Doxastic Wrongs in Machine Reasoning" The Jarislowsky Chair will be hosting Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre, a Postdoctoral Researcher for the chair, for a WIP session on March 17, 2025 at noon. This event is open to all. Please write to julia.hou...

I will present my paper "Can AI Systems Hold Wrongful Beliefs? Doxastic Wrongs in Machine Reasoning" at McGill next week. Don't hesitate to join if you are in Montréal!

www.mcgill.ca/jarislowsky-...

Fall/Automne
GRIPP Political Philosophy Colloquium / Conférences en philo politique

24 Sep: Rainer Forst (Frankfurt)
8 Oct: Serena Parekh (Northeastern)
29 Oct: Nicholas Vrousalis (Erasmus)
12 Nov: @catherinelu.bsky.social (McGill)
26 Nov: @hugocl.bsky.social (Aarhus)
10 Déc: Naïma Hamrouni (UQTR)

IVADO annonce son soutien à 11 projets postdoctoraux, dont 2 en cofinancement avec l’Obvia | IVADO

Très heureux d'annoncer officiellement que je vais pouvoir continuer mes recherches sur la philosophie politique de l'IA cet automne avec @jocelynmaclure.bsky.social grâce au soutien de IVADO!

ivado.ca/2024/05/01/i...

New publication out now in Bioethics on structural (in)justice and procreative justice! w Joona Räsänen @drbengtson.bsky.social and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

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Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre (U. of Aarhus) Conférence du midi: présentation intitulée « Defining Structural Discrimination ».

C'est demain, 17 janvier!