Olya Kudina
Biographic Data
| ID | 2817534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olya Kudina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olya |
| FAMILY NAME | Kudina |
| SIGNATURE | KUDINA O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Delft University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5374-1687 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The ethics in sustainable AI: A scoping literature review on normativity in the academic discourse on the environmental sustainability of AI
AI is developing rapidly, as are concerns about the environmental impact of its training and deployment. Studies about the environmental sustainability of AI have begun to emerge in the past five years, stressing the need for critical reflection on the discursive underbelly of this emerging scholarship. For example, how do authors frame the problem of the environmental impact of AI? Are there any ethical reflections accompanying their reporting, …
Challenges and future directions for integration of large language models into socio-technical systems
Large Language Models (LLMs) are expected to significantly impact various socio-technical systems, offering transformative possibilities for improved interaction between humans and technology. However, their integration poses complex challenges due to the intricate interplay between societal structures, human behaviour, and technological innovation. This research explores these multifaceted challenges, emphasising the need for a human-centered ap…
Speak, memory: The postphenomenological analysis of memory-making in the age of algorithmically powered social networks
This paper explores the productive role that social network platforms such as Facebook, play in the practice of memory-making. While such platforms facilitate interaction across distance and time, they also solidify human self-expression and memory-making by systematically confronting the users with their digital past. By relying on the framework of postphenomenology, the analysis will scrutinize the mediating role of the Memories feature of Face…
Understanding Technology-Induced Value Change: A Pragmatist Proposal
We propose a pragmatist account of value change that helps to understand how and why values sometimes change due to technological developments. Inspired by John Dewey’s writings on value, we propose to understand values as evaluative devices that carry over from earlier experiences and that are to some extent shared in society. We discuss the various functions that values fulfil in moral inquiry and propose a conceptual framework that helps to un…
What is morally at stake when using algorithms to make medical diagnoses? Expanding the discussion beyond risks and harms
In this paper, we examine the qualitative moral impact of machine learning-based clinical decision support systems in the process of medical diagnosis. To date, discussions about machine learning in this context have focused on problems that can be measured and assessed quantitatively, such as by estimating the extent of potential harm or calculating incurred risks. We maintain that such discussions neglect the qualitative moral impact of these t…
Regulating AI in Health Care: The Challenges of Informed User Engagement
The European Union's proposed Artificial Intelligence Act is a welcome, ambitious law on the regulation of AI systems. However, it underestimates the responsibilities placed on individual users to navigate the implementation of AI. Focusing on the health care sector, this policy piece examines challenges that the proposed law bypasses. Second, with AI in this mediating role, the meaning of responsibility is changed to accommodate the broadened sc…
Alexa, who am I?”: Voice Assistants and Hermeneutic Lemniscate as the Technologically Mediated Sense-Making
In this paper, I argue that AI-powered voice assistants, just as all technologies, actively mediate our interpretative structures, including values. I show this by explaining the productive role of technologies in the way people make sense of themselves and those around them. More specifically, I rely on the hermeneutics of Gadamer and the material hermeneutics of Ihde to develop a hermeneutic lemniscate as a principle of technologically mediated…
Values in responsible research and innovation: From entities to practices
This article explores the understanding of values in Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). First, it analyses how two mainstream RRI approaches, the largely substantial one by Von Schomberg and the procedural one by Stilgoe and colleagues, identify and conceptualize values. We argue that by treating values as relatively stable entities, directly available for reflection, both fall into an ‘entity trap’. As a result, the hermeneutic work requ…
Ethics from Within: Google Glass, the Collingridge Dilemma, and the Mediated Value of Privacy
Following the "control dilemma" of Collingridge, influencing technological developments is easy when their implications are not yet manifest, yet once we know these implications, they are difficult to change. This article revisits the Collingridge dilemma in the context of contemporary ethics of technology, when technologies affect both society and the value frameworks we use to evaluate them. Early in its development, we do not know how a techno…
Can the technological mediation approach improve technology assessment? A critical view from ‘within’
The technological mediation approach aspires to complement current Technology Assessment (TA) practices. It aims to do so by addressing ethical concerns from ‘within’ human-technology relations leading to ethical Constructive Technology Assessment (eCTA), as articulated by Kiran, Asle H., Nelly Oudshoorn, and Peter-Paul Verbeek in their 2015 article. In this paper, we problematize this ambition. Firstly, we situate the technological mediation app…
Ethics from Within: Google Glass, the Collingridge Dilemma, and the Mediated Value of Privacy
Following the "control dilemma" of Collingridge, influencing technological developments is easy when their implications are not yet manifest, yet once we know these implications, they are difficult to change. This article revisits the Collingridge dilemma in the context of contemporary ethics of technology, when technologies affect both society and the value frameworks we use to evaluate them. Early in its development, we do not know how a techno…
Alexa, who am I?”: Voice Assistants and Hermeneutic Lemniscate as the Technologically Mediated Sense-Making
In this paper, I argue that AI-powered voice assistants, just as all technologies, actively mediate our interpretative structures, including values. I show this by explaining the productive role of technologies in the way people make sense of themselves and those around them. More specifically, I rely on the hermeneutics of Gadamer and the material hermeneutics of Ihde to develop a hermeneutic lemniscate as a principle of technologically mediated…
Can the technological mediation approach improve technology assessment? A critical view from ‘within’
The technological mediation approach aspires to complement current Technology Assessment (TA) practices. It aims to do so by addressing ethical concerns from ‘within’ human-technology relations leading to ethical Constructive Technology Assessment (eCTA), as articulated by Kiran, Asle H., Nelly Oudshoorn, and Peter-Paul Verbeek in their 2015 article. In this paper, we problematize this ambition. Firstly, we situate the technological mediation app…
Ethics from Within: Google Glass, the Collingridge Dilemma, and the Mediated Value of Privacy
Following the "control dilemma" of Collingridge, influencing technological developments is easy when their implications are not yet manifest, yet once we know these implications, they are difficult to change. This article revisits the Collingridge dilemma in the context of contemporary ethics of technology, when technologies affect both society and the value frameworks we use to evaluate them. Early in its development, we do not know how a techno…
Values in responsible research and innovation: From entities to practices
This article explores the understanding of values in Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). First, it analyses how two mainstream RRI approaches, the largely substantial one by Von Schomberg and the procedural one by Stilgoe and colleagues, identify and conceptualize values. We argue that by treating values as relatively stable entities, directly available for reflection, both fall into an ‘entity trap’. As a result, the hermeneutic work requ…
What is morally at stake when using algorithms to make medical diagnoses? Expanding the discussion beyond risks and harms
In this paper, we examine the qualitative moral impact of machine learning-based clinical decision support systems in the process of medical diagnosis. To date, discussions about machine learning in this context have focused on problems that can be measured and assessed quantitatively, such as by estimating the extent of potential harm or calculating incurred risks. We maintain that such discussions neglect the qualitative moral impact of these t…
Regulating AI in Health Care: The Challenges of Informed User Engagement
The European Union's proposed Artificial Intelligence Act is a welcome, ambitious law on the regulation of AI systems. However, it underestimates the responsibilities placed on individual users to navigate the implementation of AI. Focusing on the health care sector, this policy piece examines challenges that the proposed law bypasses. Second, with AI in this mediating role, the meaning of responsibility is changed to accommodate the broadened sc…
Alexa, who am I?”: Voice Assistants and Hermeneutic Lemniscate as the Technologically Mediated Sense-Making
In this paper, I argue that AI-powered voice assistants, just as all technologies, actively mediate our interpretative structures, including values. I show this by explaining the productive role of technologies in the way people make sense of themselves and those around them. More specifically, I rely on the hermeneutics of Gadamer and the material hermeneutics of Ihde to develop a hermeneutic lemniscate as a principle of technologically mediated…
Speak, memory: The postphenomenological analysis of memory-making in the age of algorithmically powered social networks
This paper explores the productive role that social network platforms such as Facebook, play in the practice of memory-making. While such platforms facilitate interaction across distance and time, they also solidify human self-expression and memory-making by systematically confronting the users with their digital past. By relying on the framework of postphenomenology, the analysis will scrutinize the mediating role of the Memories feature of Face…
Understanding Technology-Induced Value Change: A Pragmatist Proposal
We propose a pragmatist account of value change that helps to understand how and why values sometimes change due to technological developments. Inspired by John Dewey’s writings on value, we propose to understand values as evaluative devices that carry over from earlier experiences and that are to some extent shared in society. We discuss the various functions that values fulfil in moral inquiry and propose a conceptual framework that helps to un…
Challenges and future directions for integration of large language models into socio-technical systems
Large Language Models (LLMs) are expected to significantly impact various socio-technical systems, offering transformative possibilities for improved interaction between humans and technology. However, their integration poses complex challenges due to the intricate interplay between societal structures, human behaviour, and technological innovation. This research explores these multifaceted challenges, emphasising the need for a human-centered ap…
The ethics in sustainable AI: A scoping literature review on normativity in the academic discourse on the environmental sustainability of AI
AI is developing rapidly, as are concerns about the environmental impact of its training and deployment. Studies about the environmental sustainability of AI have begun to emerge in the past five years, stressing the need for critical reflection on the discursive underbelly of this emerging scholarship. For example, how do authors frame the problem of the environmental impact of AI? Are there any ethical reflections accompanying their reporting, …
Computer Science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Engineering ethics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Knowledge management (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)