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John Basl in the Press
The Associated Press
Gymnast Dunne’s AI spot raises questions about NIL ethics
“It does seem problematic to have people sort of promoting plagiarism,” said John Basl, a philosophy professor at Northeastern University in Boston who specializes in AI and data ethics, and who also is a faculty affiliate of Harvard’s Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society.
Vox
Why it’s so damn hard to make AI fair and unbiased
“We’re currently in a crisis period, where we lack the ethical capacity to solve this problem,” said John Basl, a Northeastern University philosopher who specializes in emerging technologies.
Mashable
Crisis Text Line tried to monetize its users. Can big data ever be ethical?
John Basl, associate director of AI and Data Ethics Initiatives at the Ethics Institute of Northeastern University, says the controversy is another instance of a “broader kind of failure” in artificial intelligence.
A New Hire, a Koch Grant, and a Department in Crisis
“A lot of ethical stars and superstars had spent a few years there before going on to other jobs,” said John Basl, a former assistant professor at Bowling Green who moved to Northeastern University in 2013.
