Lambros Roumbanis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lambros Roumbanis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lambros |
| FAMILY NAME | Roumbanis |
| SIGNATURE | ROUMBANIS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5118-4124 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Suffering machines? A critical inquiry concerning the moral risks of creating an ‘organoid intelligence’
What could happen in the future if AI technologies became sentient like human beings, thus capable of suffering and feeling existentially alienated? The question warrants serious consideration, especially in light of recent advances in biocomputing, where small human brain organoids have been cultivated that display a rudimentary form of sentience. Currently, researchers aim at creating complex networked interfaces where several brain organoids a…
On the present-future impact of AI technologies on personnel selection and the exponential increase in meta-algorithmic judgments
On algorithmic mediations
In this article, the main focus will be to analyze the notion of mediation in an attempt to apply it to one of the major topics of our time: the increasing impact of AI technologies in social life. Mediation being essentially a relational concept, I will start by linking it to the relational thinking developed in sociological theory and postphenomenology. My own contribution will be to take a substantialist position and to define what I consider …
After the algorithms: A study of meta-algorithmic judgments and diversity in the hiring process at a large multisite company
In recent years, both private and public organizations across contexts have begun implementing AI technologies in their recruitment processes. This transition is typically justified by improved efficiency as well as more objective, performance-based ranking, and inclusive selection of job candidates. However, this rapid development has also raised concerns that the use of these emerging technologies will instead increase discrimination or enhance…
New Arguments for a pure lottery in Research Funding: A Sketch for a Future Science Policy Without Time-Consuming Grant Competitions
A critical debate has blossomed within the field of research policy, science and technology studies, and philosophy of science regarding the possible benefits and limitations of allocating extramural grants using a lottery system. The most common view among those supporting the lottery idea is that some form of modified lottery is acceptable, if properly combined with peer review. This means that partial randomization can be applied only after ex…
The oracles of science: On grant peer review and competitive funding
From a purely epistemological point of view, evaluating and predicting the future success of new research projects is often considered very difficult. Is it possible to forecast important findings and breakthrough in science, and if not, then what is the point trying to do it anyway? Still, that is what funding agencies all over the world expect their reviewers to do, but a number of previous studies has shown that this form of evaluation of inno…
Disagreement and Agonistic Chance in Peer Review
The purpose of grant peer review is to identify the most excellent and promising research projects. However, sociologists of science and STS scholars have shown that peer review tends to promote solid low-risk projects at the expense of more original and innovative projects that often come with higher risk. It has also been shown that the review process is affected by significant measures of chance. Against this background, the aim of this study …
Two dogmas of peer-reviewism
How should we organize our research activities, and to what extent do we want academic culture to be shaped by funding issues? These are not trivial questions. We all want to support excellent rese
Peer Review or Lottery? A Critical Analysis of Two Different Forms of Decision-making Mechanisms for Allocation of Research Grants
At present, peer review is the most common method used by funding agencies to make decisions about resource allocation. But how reliable, efficient, and fair is it in practice? The ex ante evaluation of scientific novelty is a fundamentally uncertain endeavor; bias and chance are embedded in the final outcome. In the current study, I will examine some of the most central problems of peer review and highlight the possible benefits of using a lotte…
Symbolic Violence in Academic Life: A Study on How Junior Scholars are Educated in the Art of Getting Funded
It is widely recognized that universities all around Europe have taken on a more market-oriented approach that has changed the core of academic work life. This has led to a precarious situation for many junior scholars, who have to seek research funding to cover their own wages in an increasingly fierce competition over scarce resources. Thus, at present, research funding is a Gordian knot that must be cut by each individual researcher. As a resp…
Academic judgments under uncertainty: A study of collective anchoring effects in Swedish Research Council panel groups
This article focuses on anchoring effects in the process of peer reviewing research proposals. Anchoring effects are commonly seen as the result of flaws in human judgment, as cognitive biases that stem from specific heuristics that guide people when they involve their intuition in solving a problem. Here, the cognitive biases will be analyzed from a sociological point of view, as interactional and aggregated phenomena. The article is based on di…
Krönika: Den akademiska etiken och entreprenörhögskolans anda
Peer Review or Lottery? A Critical Analysis of Two Different Forms of Decision-making Mechanisms for Allocation of Research Grants
At present, peer review is the most common method used by funding agencies to make decisions about resource allocation. But how reliable, efficient, and fair is it in practice? The ex ante evaluation of scientific novelty is a fundamentally uncertain endeavor; bias and chance are embedded in the final outcome. In the current study, I will examine some of the most central problems of peer review and highlight the possible benefits of using a lotte…
Symbolic Violence in Academic Life: A Study on How Junior Scholars are Educated in the Art of Getting Funded
It is widely recognized that universities all around Europe have taken on a more market-oriented approach that has changed the core of academic work life. This has led to a precarious situation for many junior scholars, who have to seek research funding to cover their own wages in an increasingly fierce competition over scarce resources. Thus, at present, research funding is a Gordian knot that must be cut by each individual researcher. As a resp…
Disagreement and Agonistic Chance in Peer Review
The purpose of grant peer review is to identify the most excellent and promising research projects. However, sociologists of science and STS scholars have shown that peer review tends to promote solid low-risk projects at the expense of more original and innovative projects that often come with higher risk. It has also been shown that the review process is affected by significant measures of chance. Against this background, the aim of this study …
Academic judgments under uncertainty: A study of collective anchoring effects in Swedish Research Council panel groups
This article focuses on anchoring effects in the process of peer reviewing research proposals. Anchoring effects are commonly seen as the result of flaws in human judgment, as cognitive biases that stem from specific heuristics that guide people when they involve their intuition in solving a problem. Here, the cognitive biases will be analyzed from a sociological point of view, as interactional and aggregated phenomena. The article is based on di…
On the present-future impact of AI technologies on personnel selection and the exponential increase in meta-algorithmic judgments
On algorithmic mediations
In this article, the main focus will be to analyze the notion of mediation in an attempt to apply it to one of the major topics of our time: the increasing impact of AI technologies in social life. Mediation being essentially a relational concept, I will start by linking it to the relational thinking developed in sociological theory and postphenomenology. My own contribution will be to take a substantialist position and to define what I consider …
New Arguments for a pure lottery in Research Funding: A Sketch for a Future Science Policy Without Time-Consuming Grant Competitions
A critical debate has blossomed within the field of research policy, science and technology studies, and philosophy of science regarding the possible benefits and limitations of allocating extramural grants using a lottery system. The most common view among those supporting the lottery idea is that some form of modified lottery is acceptable, if properly combined with peer review. This means that partial randomization can be applied only after ex…
Academic judgments under uncertainty: A study of collective anchoring effects in Swedish Research Council panel groups
This article focuses on anchoring effects in the process of peer reviewing research proposals. Anchoring effects are commonly seen as the result of flaws in human judgment, as cognitive biases that stem from specific heuristics that guide people when they involve their intuition in solving a problem. Here, the cognitive biases will be analyzed from a sociological point of view, as interactional and aggregated phenomena. The article is based on di…
Krönika: Den akademiska etiken och entreprenörhögskolans anda
Symbolic Violence in Academic Life: A Study on How Junior Scholars are Educated in the Art of Getting Funded
It is widely recognized that universities all around Europe have taken on a more market-oriented approach that has changed the core of academic work life. This has led to a precarious situation for many junior scholars, who have to seek research funding to cover their own wages in an increasingly fierce competition over scarce resources. Thus, at present, research funding is a Gordian knot that must be cut by each individual researcher. As a resp…
Peer Review or Lottery? A Critical Analysis of Two Different Forms of Decision-making Mechanisms for Allocation of Research Grants
At present, peer review is the most common method used by funding agencies to make decisions about resource allocation. But how reliable, efficient, and fair is it in practice? The ex ante evaluation of scientific novelty is a fundamentally uncertain endeavor; bias and chance are embedded in the final outcome. In the current study, I will examine some of the most central problems of peer review and highlight the possible benefits of using a lotte…
Two dogmas of peer-reviewism
How should we organize our research activities, and to what extent do we want academic culture to be shaped by funding issues? These are not trivial questions. We all want to support excellent rese
The oracles of science: On grant peer review and competitive funding
From a purely epistemological point of view, evaluating and predicting the future success of new research projects is often considered very difficult. Is it possible to forecast important findings and breakthrough in science, and if not, then what is the point trying to do it anyway? Still, that is what funding agencies all over the world expect their reviewers to do, but a number of previous studies has shown that this form of evaluation of inno…
Disagreement and Agonistic Chance in Peer Review
The purpose of grant peer review is to identify the most excellent and promising research projects. However, sociologists of science and STS scholars have shown that peer review tends to promote solid low-risk projects at the expense of more original and innovative projects that often come with higher risk. It has also been shown that the review process is affected by significant measures of chance. Against this background, the aim of this study …
New Arguments for a pure lottery in Research Funding: A Sketch for a Future Science Policy Without Time-Consuming Grant Competitions
A critical debate has blossomed within the field of research policy, science and technology studies, and philosophy of science regarding the possible benefits and limitations of allocating extramural grants using a lottery system. The most common view among those supporting the lottery idea is that some form of modified lottery is acceptable, if properly combined with peer review. This means that partial randomization can be applied only after ex…
After the algorithms: A study of meta-algorithmic judgments and diversity in the hiring process at a large multisite company
In recent years, both private and public organizations across contexts have begun implementing AI technologies in their recruitment processes. This transition is typically justified by improved efficiency as well as more objective, performance-based ranking, and inclusive selection of job candidates. However, this rapid development has also raised concerns that the use of these emerging technologies will instead increase discrimination or enhance…
On the present-future impact of AI technologies on personnel selection and the exponential increase in meta-algorithmic judgments
On algorithmic mediations
In this article, the main focus will be to analyze the notion of mediation in an attempt to apply it to one of the major topics of our time: the increasing impact of AI technologies in social life. Mediation being essentially a relational concept, I will start by linking it to the relational thinking developed in sociological theory and postphenomenology. My own contribution will be to take a substantialist position and to define what I consider …
Suffering machines? A critical inquiry concerning the moral risks of creating an ‘organoid intelligence’
What could happen in the future if AI technologies became sentient like human beings, thus capable of suffering and feeling existentially alienated? The question warrants serious consideration, especially in light of recent advances in biocomputing, where small human brain organoids have been cultivated that display a rudimentary form of sentience. Currently, researchers aim at creating complex networked interfaces where several brain organoids a…
Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Public relations (4 works)