Philosophies & Movements
AI Ethics
A field concerned with fairness, bias, accountability, and near-term societal harms from deployed AI systems.
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No single coining event. The modern field is associated with researchers including Timnit Gebru, Joy Buolamwini, Margaret Mitchell, Ruha Benjamin, Safiya Umoja Noble, Cathy O’Neil, Virginia Eubanks, Abeba Birhane, Deborah Raji, Rumman Chowdhury, Helen Nissenbaum, Shannon Vallor and Alondra Nelson — all profiled on our Who’s Who page, with their papers and positions. Often explicitly contrasted with the existential-risk framing of AI safety: critics argue “safety” framing distracts funding and attention from present-day harms.
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