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John Basl in the Press
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“I think a lot of the risks of AI are very pervasive and sort of hidden — like the fact that your doctor’s using it, your lawyer’s using it, and the way that may interact with you,” said John Basl, a professor of philosophy at Northeastern University.
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“I think a lot of the risks of AI are very pervasive and sort of hidden — like the fact that your doctor’s using it, your lawyer’s using it, and the way that may interact with you,” John Basl, a professor of philosophy at Northeastern University.
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“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.
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“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.
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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.
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“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.



