Alex John London

Glad to see our paper is out, free and open access: “Resolving the Human-subjects Status of Machine Learning's Crowdworkers” with @kaushikdivyansh.dev and @zacharylipton.bsky.social
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Glad to see our paper is out, free and open access: “Resolving the Human-subjects Status of Machine Learning's Crowdworkers” with @kaushikdivyansh.dev and @zacharylipton.bsky.social
dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Had a wonderful day in Toronto yesterday. Participated in a roundtable with faculty and students and gave a lecture on AI in medicine at the JCB. Lovely dinner with good friends after capped a marvelous visit.

In case this got lost in the weekend, please check out our new paper #philsci #bioethics #AI

Just out, free and open access, “A Normative Framework for Artificial Intelligence as a Sociotechnical System in Healthcare” with @mdmccradden.bsky.social Shalmali Joshua and James Anderson. Extends the concept of an “intervention ensemble” to AI in medicine… www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

Love that face, omg

Thoughtful new review of my book by Soren Holm in Clinical Trials, “This is […] undoubtedly one of the most important books about biomedical research ethics to appear in the last 20 years.” Still 1 copy left on Amazon! (PDF is free & OA)
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May it live long and prosper

Looks like a very fun class. Thanks for sharing.

Thoughtful new review of my book by Soren Holm in Clinical Trials, “This is […] undoubtedly one of the most important books about biomedical research ethics to appear in the last 20 years.” Still 1 copy left on Amazon! (PDF is free & OA)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I’m not clicking the link, but this “skeet” is a thing of beauty.

Come on, man! That’s too kind.

In the present case I’m at the stage where the question is: what do you even mean by “issues of values.”

I get it. I would walk away but I’m afraid this boulder and this hill are all I have.

To be honest, working to get to the point where folks want to hear this is tiring.

It’s difficult to explain to non-ethics people how much of my professional life is basically dealing with people who don’t see any value in ethics (because they don’t understand what it might be) but who feel forced to engage with me because of some external requirement.

Since the LLMs like to make sh@t it—why didn’t I go to Stanford after all??—it couldn’t either way. But I should give it a try. All incoming email will go to my LLM assistant from now on.

I just realized I’m giving a talk or doing some kind of presentation 6 of the next 7 days. I really need to replace the idiot who does my schedule 🙃

It seems like decisions in big tech firms are increasingly being made by tech/business leaders who either don’t consider the ethical issues or don’t regard them as on par with the goal of being first and trying to maximize revenue.

6. Back to emptiness. A great candle in the cold emptiness flickered and vanished in a spray of dust—as we all will one day.

5. The brittle metal in their wild hearts absorbed energy until one day the lattice of life fell apart and the stars exploded in a cosmic calamity. The light went out. Atoms were spread across the universe. All in silence. Back to darkness.

4. the pressure and the heat were so intense that the star produced the first iron in its heart. Heavy and brittle, iron consumed rather than produced energy. In their core these stars were pressing their energy into a mighty task that turned their hearts to iron. It was death.

3. In the beginning the first stars were really fecund. In their wild hearts the reactions produced helium and oxygen and these combinations produced more light and heat, building the intensity of reaction. Until, at some point,

Wednesday we had the official ceremony conferring my new chair. Complete with physical 🪑. Honored to be recognized alongside @hoda-heidari.bsky.social and Brad Myers.

Fewer, better movies of increasing depth and brilliance—but it’s not possible.

“I know that we’re short of time but luckily time stands still when I’m talking.”

Ironically, I think this WAS demonstrated in the recent exhibition!

Until they can show that the cyber truck offers protection from the arrows of outrageous fortune I’m still not interested.

The most frightening thing I’ve ever seen is how people will treat one another. There is no need for devils and demons when you have seen the works of a callous heart.

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