The Dolores Project

The Dolores Project

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The Dolores Project episodes

  • Artificial Life, Ethics, Mary Shelly's Political Vision, and Robots with Dr. Eileen Hunt
    Eileen Hunt Botting is Professor of Political Science, a Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and Concurrent Faculty in Gender Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She will complete two books while a Distinguished Fellow of the NDIAS: Mary Shelley and the Politics of Making Artificial Life: Political Science Fictions after “Frankenstein” and Portraits of Wollstonecraft.
    She is the author or editor of seven books, including Family Feuds: Wollstonecraft, Burke, and Rousseau on the Transformation of the Family (SUNY, 2006), Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville (Penn State, 2009, co-edited with Jill Locke), the first scholarly edition of Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston by Hannah Mather Crocker (NEHGS, 2011, co-edited with Sarah L. Houser), a scholarly edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (Yale, 2014), Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women’s Human Rights (Yale, 2016), Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in “Frankenstein” (Penn, 2017), and The Wollstonecraftian Mind (Routledge, forthcoming 2019, and co-edited with Sandrine Bergès and Alan Coffee). She has also authored over fifty articles, chapters, essays, and reviews, in venues such as Aeon Magazine, The Washington Post, Political Theory, History of European Ideas, The American Political Science Review, and Reproductive Ethics II.
    She was a recipient of an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship in 2015-2016 and the New England Research Fellowship Consortium’s Colonial Society award in 2009-2010. She is currently a president-elect of the Women and Politics research section of the American Political Science Association. She was elected a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society in 2014 and a non-resident member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts in 2012. With Sarah L. Houser, she won the triennial Edition Award from the Society for the Study of American Women Writers in 2011. In 2014, she won the Okin-Young award from the American Political Science Association for the best article published in feminist political theory during the previous year.  She is a member of the 1993 class of Marshall Scholars and an alumna of Bowdoin, Cambridge, and Yale.
    54 min
  • Technology, Values, and Faith with Computer Scientist Derek Schuurman

    Dr. Schuurman is a fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation, part of the leadership team for the West Michigan ASA chapter, an associate fellow of the The Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology in Cambridge, senior member of the IEEE, member of the ACM, CES, ACMS, a book review editor for Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, a regular contributor to the Christian Scholars Review blog, and a regular columnist for Christian Courier.


    Books: 

    https://cs.calvin.edu/activities/books/fieldguide/

    https://www.ivpress.com/shaping-a-digital-world

    58 min
  • AI, Robots, and the Challenge of Policy Making w/ Jacob Turner

    About Jacob: 

    Jacob joined chambers in October 2018. He is a former solicitor-advocate, having qualified in 2014. He has advised individuals, corporates and sovereigns in a variety of commercial matters involving both litigation and arbitration. Jacob accepts instructions in all areas of chambers’ practice and is happy working both as sole counsel and as part of a team.

    Previously, Jacob worked in the Dispute Resolution department at Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP and as a judicial assistant to Lord Mance at the UK Supreme Court. Jacob is the author of Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), which has been cited by Lord Hodge and Lord Sales in extrajudicial speeches on the legal impacts of AI. He is a contributing author to The Law of Artificial Intelligence (Sweet & Maxwell, 2020). Jacob is also the co-author, with Lord Mance, of Privy Council Practice (OUP, 2017).


    Buy the Book: https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319962344?token=sitewide40&utm_campaign=3_fjp8312_springer_us_dsa_sitewide40&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2bbrzOmw8wIVBRLnCh2PwgQSEAAYASAAEgJ7PPD_BwE


    Follow Him on Twitter: 

    @RobotRules 

    @JacobTurner1

    50 min
  • Family, Friendship, and Robot Philosophy w/ John Danaher

    John Danaher is a lecturer in the Law School. He holds a BCL from University College Cork (2006); an LLM from Trinity College Dublin (2007); and a PhD from University College Cork (2011). He was lecturer in law at Keele University in the UK from 2011 until 2014. He joined NUI Galway in July 2014. 


    John's research focuses on the ethical, legal and social implications of new technologies. He maintains a blog called Philosophical Disquisitions, and produces a podcast with the same title. He also writes for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

    56 min
  • Policy-Making, Fear, and Robot Regulation with Alan Winfield

    Alan works at UWE spans Research and Public Engagement. He conducts research in Cognitive Robotics within the Bristol Robotics Lab. He is a member of the Science Communication Unit, and undertake public engagement work centred upon robotics. Robot ethics is a significant focus of his current work, including the development of new standards.

    I also blog at: http://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/

    Follow him @alan_winfield on Twitter 

    48 min
  • Robots, Ethics, and Jazz w/ Sven Nyholm

    Sven Nyholm is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2012. His dissertation, on Kant’s ethics, was awarded the Pro-quest Distinguished Dissertation Award. Currently, Nyholm is working on the ethics of automated driving, human-robot collaboration, deep brain stimulation (including its effect on the self), the ordinary concept(s) of “true love”, and disability and the goods of life.


    Book: Humans and Robots: Ethics, Agency, and Anthropomorphism https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786612267/Humans-and-Robots-Ethics-Agency-and-Anthropomorphism


    Follow Sven: @SvenNyholm



    53 min
  • Robot Rights Doesn't Solve Anything w/ Dr. Burkhard Schafer

    Burkhard Schafer is Professor of Computational Legal Theory at the University of Edinburgh. He is co-founder and co-director of the Joseph Bell Centre for Legal Reasoning and Forensic Statistics.  In this episode we discuss the limitations of granting robots rights and the function of insurance in the face of liability claims.  For any questions for Dr. Schafer please see: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-burkhard-schafer


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    50 min
  • AI Chatbots and Ethics w/ Hendrik Kempt

    Hendrik Kempt is a PostDoc working in the ethics of AI in medical diagnostics. He studied Philosophy and Sociology at HHU Düsseldorf (B.A.) and Humboldt University Berlin (M.A.). During his graduate studies, working on prescriptivism in metaethics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, he went on to be a visiting scholar at different universities in the United States (University of Missouri – Columbia, MO, University of Southern California, Los Angeles/CA, and Brown University, Providence/RI).

    His area of specialization (AOS) is in applied ethics (mostly in AI ethics, energy ethics, medical ethics), metaethics and philosophy of language, with areas of competence (AOC) in social philosophy, as well as the philosophy of Hans Blumenberg, and philosophy of religion.

    He is a member of the AISB, SPT, a fellow at FoKoS of the University of Siegen, and a fan of RuPaul’s Drag Race.


    Book Link: 

    Chatbots and the Domestication of AI

    https://www.amazon.com/Chatbots-Domestication-AI-Relational-Approach/dp/3030562891/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=hendrik+kempt&qid=1626098911&sr=8-1




    46 min
  • Moral Patiency, Westworld, and Privacy w/ Cindy Friedman

    Join me for a brilliant discussion with emerging scholar Cindy Friedman as we talk about robot rights and the reasons for considering a robot morally. Cindy is a PhD student at Utrecht University and a member of the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies Research Consortium. Follow her on Twitter at @Cindyy2303. 

    45 min
  • Animals, The Environment, and AI Ethics w/ Josh Gellers

    In this episode I am joined by Joshua C. Gellers who is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Florida. We talk about the rights of animals, nature, and our concerns and hopes for our future with non-human entities. There is a lot to unpack in this episode so grab a pen and paper and get comfortable. 

    I highly encourage you to download his most recent book, "Rights for Robots" https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9780429288159/rights-robots-joshua-gellers 

    Follow him on Twitter @JoshGellers and at joshgellers.com 

    47 min

About The Dolores Project

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Welcome to the digital table. This project is an attempt to bring together a wide range of voices to dialogue about technologies like AI and robotics. We talk about some strange thinks here and there,…