In this episode, Dr. Bruder speaks with Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota Duluth, Dr. Alexis Elder, to discuss friendships in the digital age through the lens of Aristotelian philosophy. In this episode, they discuss how the internet changes the landscape of friendship and how AI can ethically become a social tool.

• https://www.alexiselder.net/
• Check out Alexis' Book: Friendship, Robots, and Social Media: False Friends and Second Selves - https://philpapers.org/rec/ELDFRA
• Excellent online friendships: an Aristotelian defense of social media - https://philarchive.org/rec/ELDEOF
• Check out Casey Fiesler's work on platform migration - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3392847
• Keep an eye out for updates on Dr. Elder's upcoming book - The Ethics of Digital Ghosts: Confucian, Mohist, and Zhuangist Perspectives on AI and Death

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In this episode, Dr. Bruder speaks with Handi-Link host, Cam Wells, to discuss Cam's firsthand experience with the power and importance of accessibility in education, the way COVID changed the landscape for accessibility tools and their ubiquity, and the holistic ways accessibility tools can benefit all people, disabled or otherwise.

• https://www.cjam.ca/shows/handi-link/
• Tune in to Handi-Link on Thursdays at 12:30pm EST produced at CJAM-FM but syndicated across Canada

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In this episode, Dr. Bruder interviews Rory Mir, Associate Director of Community Organizing at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, to discuss AI, Digital Privacy, and how they use their educational background in their work at the foundation's grassroots information sharing network and the foundation's broader work of defending internet and CyberSecurity-related civil liberties.

• https://www.eff.org/
• [email protected]
• https://www.eff.org/electronic-frontier-alliance (Electronic Frontier Alliance)
• [email protected]
• https://supporters.eff.org/donate/join-4--s (Join EFF)
• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks
• https://cypurr.org/
• https://sparcopen.org/
• https://zenodo.org/records/10078610 (SPARC Report on Elsevier)

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In this episode, Dr. Bruder interviews Claudiu Popa, CEO of Informatica Security and founder of the non-profit Knowledgeflow CyberSafety Foundation, to discuss cybersafety and privacy in education tools as well as the importance of recognizing dark patterns.

Resources and writings referenced in episode:

• https://knowledgeflow.org/about-knowledgeflow-cybersafety-foundation/
• https://www.informatica.com/ca/
• https://darkpatternstipline.org/
• https://www.datarisk.ca/
• https://www.managedprivacy.ca/
• https://www.securityandprivacy.ca/
• https://store.thomsonreuters.ca/en-ca/products/the-canadian-cyberfraud-handbook-a-professional-reference-30835351

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In this episode, Dr. Bruder interviews Dr. Marten Kaas, AI researcher and research associate in the Assuring Autonomy International Programme at the University of York, to discuss applications of Artificial Intelligence as well as the ethical concerns and considerations surrounding this booming and fascinating field.

Resources and writings mentioned this episode:

• Computing Machinery and Intelligence - A. M Turing https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/LIX/236/433/986238
• Transcendence: Measuring Intelligence - Dr. Marten Kaas https://philarchive.org/rec/KAATMI
• A Principles-Based Ethics Assurance Argument Pattern for AI and Autonomous Systems (PRAISE) - https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15370
• Veil of Ignorance - https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/veil-of-ignorance#:~:text=Philosopher%20John%20Rawls%20suggests%20that,consider%20how%20societies%20should%20operate.
• Reflective Equilibrium - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reflective-equilibrium/
• York SAINTS Program - https://www.york.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/centres-doctoral-training/safe-ai-training/
• Alan Turing Institute SAFE-D - https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-projects/trustworthy-and-ethical-assurance-digital-healthcare
• Accountability in a Computerized Society - Helen Nissenbaum https://nissenbaum.tech.cornell.edu/papers/accountability.pdf
• XAI - https://www.ibm.com/topics/explainable-ai#:~:text=the%20next%20step-,What%20is%20explainable%20AI%3F,created%20by%20machine%20learning%20algorithms.
• Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting- Shannon Vallor https://academic.oup.com/book/25951

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References:

Annas, J. (2013). Intelligent virtue. Oxford University Press. 

Beauchamp, T.L., Childress, J.F.: Principles of Biomedical Ethics,

7th edn. Oxford University Press, New York (2013)

Burr, C., & Leslie, D. (2022). Ethical assurance: A practical approach to the responsible design, development, and deployment of data-Driven Technologies. AI and Ethics, 3(1), 73–98. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-022-00178-0 

Crisp, R. (2000). Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics. Cambridge University Press. 

KANT, I. (2021). Groundwork for the metaphysics of morals. DIGIREADS COM. 

Mill, J. S. (2020). Utilitarianism. Bibliotech Press. 

Wood, Allen. Relativism https://iweb.langara.ca/rjohns/files/2015/01/Allen_Wood.pdf

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