Carissa Véliz
Biographic Data
| ID | 452070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carissa Véliz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Véliz |
| SIGNATURE | VÉLIZ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3189-3994 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Accuracy-Explainability Trade-off, the Right to Explanation, and the Implications for Organisations
Algorithms increasingly shape access to employment, credit, healthcare, and justice, yet the basis on which they do so is often opaque. A growing literature argues that affected individuals have a right to explanation, grounded in their interest in informed self-advocacy: the ability to understand and respond to decisions that bear on their life prospects. We examine whether this interest can sustain such a right. Explanations that serve self-adv…
Self-Esteem and Technological Unemployment: Should We Halt AI to Protect Meaningful Work
Should we insulate humanity from AI development in an effort to preserve people’s ability to form self-esteem and find meaning in their occupations? In this article, we take this possibility seriously and argue that technological insulation would ultimately fail in its aim. In doing so, we will consider two different scenarios: one in which we only halt the deployment of technology that would lead to our replacement as workers, and a second one i…
The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics
Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics
The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics is a lively and authoritative guide to ethical issues related to digital technologies, with a special emphasis on AI. Philosophers with a wide range of expertise cover 37 topics, including: the right to have access to the internet, trolling and online shaming, speech on social media, fake news, sex robots and dating online, persuasive technology, value alignment, algorithmic bias, predictive policing, price d…
The Art of Strategic Conversation: Surveillance, AI, and the Imajine Scenarios
In this dialogue, we explore the use of scenarios to inform thinking about the surveillant dimensions of AI systems. The aim is neither to predict times to come nor express a desired state, but to manufacture contrasting future visions that challenge assumptions existing in the present. To consider these issues, we convened four researcher-practitioners—Carissa Véliz, Malka Older, Annina Lux, and Matthew Finch—whose work encompasses AI and privac…
Testing the Motivational Strength of Positive and Negative Duty Arguments Regarding Global Poverty
Two main types of philosophical arguments have been given in support of the claim that the citizens of affluent societies have stringent moral duties to aid the global poor: “positive duty” arguments based on the notion of beneficence and “negative duty” arguments based on noninterference. Peter Singer’s positive duty argument (Singer 1972) and Thomas Pogge’s negative duty argument (Pogge 2002) are among the most prominent examples. Philosophers …
We might be afraid of black-box algorithms
Fears of black-box algorithms are multiplying. Black-box algorithms are said to prevent accountability, make it harder to detect bias and so on. Some fears concern the epistemology of black-box algorithms in medicine and the ethical implications of that epistemology. Durán and Jongsma (2021) have recently sought to allay such fears. While some of their arguments are compelling, we still see reasons for fear
Moral zombies: Why algorithms are not moral agents
In philosophy of mind, zombies are imaginary creatures that are exact physical duplicates of conscious subjects for whom there is no first-personal experience. Zombies are meant to show that physicalism—the theory that the universe is made up entirely out of physical components—is false. In this paper, I apply the zombie thought experiment to the realm of morality to assess whether moral agency is something independent from sentience. Algorithms,…
Más sobre privacidad. Respuesta a los comentarios sobre “Privacidad es poder
Este artículo es la respuesta de la autora a las reseñas de su libro: Carissa Véliz, Privacy is power: why and how you should take back control of your data, (2020) Bantam Press, London, 268 pp. publicadas en Eunomía. Revista en Cultura de la Legalidad. No 21 (2021
Not the doctor’s business: Privacy, personal responsibility and data rights in medical settings
This paper argues that assessing personal responsibility in healthcare settings for the allocation of medical resources would be too privacy‐invasive to be morally justifiable. In addition to being an inappropriate and moralizing intrusion into the private lives of patients, it would put patients’ sensitive data at risk, making data subjects vulnerable to a variety of privacy‐related harms. Even though we allow privacy‐invasive investigations to …
Sugar, Taxes, & Choice
Population obesity and associated morbidities pose significant public health and economic burdens in the United Kingdom, United States, and globally. As a response, public health initiatives often seek to change individuals’ unhealthy behavior, with the dual aims of improving their health and conserving health care resources. One such initiative—taxes on sugar‐sweetened beverages—has sparked considerable ethical debate. Prominent in the debate ar…
The Death Debates: A Call for Public Deliberation
In this issue of the Report, James L. Bernat proposes an innovative and sophisticated distinction to justify the introduction of permanent cessation as a valid substitute standard for irreversible cessation in death determination. He differentiates two approaches to conceptualizing and determining death: the biological concept and the prevailing medical practice standard. While irreversibility is required by the biological concept, the weaker cri…
The Art of Strategic Conversation: Surveillance, AI, and the Imajine Scenarios
In this dialogue, we explore the use of scenarios to inform thinking about the surveillant dimensions of AI systems. The aim is neither to predict times to come nor express a desired state, but to manufacture contrasting future visions that challenge assumptions existing in the present. To consider these issues, we convened four researcher-practitioners—Carissa Véliz, Malka Older, Annina Lux, and Matthew Finch—whose work encompasses AI and privac…
The Death Debates: A Call for Public Deliberation
In this issue of the Report, James L. Bernat proposes an innovative and sophisticated distinction to justify the introduction of permanent cessation as a valid substitute standard for irreversible cessation in death determination. He differentiates two approaches to conceptualizing and determining death: the biological concept and the prevailing medical practice standard. While irreversibility is required by the biological concept, the weaker cri…
Sugar, Taxes, & Choice
Population obesity and associated morbidities pose significant public health and economic burdens in the United Kingdom, United States, and globally. As a response, public health initiatives often seek to change individuals’ unhealthy behavior, with the dual aims of improving their health and conserving health care resources. One such initiative—taxes on sugar‐sweetened beverages—has sparked considerable ethical debate. Prominent in the debate ar…
Not the doctor’s business: Privacy, personal responsibility and data rights in medical settings
This paper argues that assessing personal responsibility in healthcare settings for the allocation of medical resources would be too privacy‐invasive to be morally justifiable. In addition to being an inappropriate and moralizing intrusion into the private lives of patients, it would put patients’ sensitive data at risk, making data subjects vulnerable to a variety of privacy‐related harms. Even though we allow privacy‐invasive investigations to …
We might be afraid of black-box algorithms
Fears of black-box algorithms are multiplying. Black-box algorithms are said to prevent accountability, make it harder to detect bias and so on. Some fears concern the epistemology of black-box algorithms in medicine and the ethical implications of that epistemology. Durán and Jongsma (2021) have recently sought to allay such fears. While some of their arguments are compelling, we still see reasons for fear
Moral zombies: Why algorithms are not moral agents
In philosophy of mind, zombies are imaginary creatures that are exact physical duplicates of conscious subjects for whom there is no first-personal experience. Zombies are meant to show that physicalism—the theory that the universe is made up entirely out of physical components—is false. In this paper, I apply the zombie thought experiment to the realm of morality to assess whether moral agency is something independent from sentience. Algorithms,…
Más sobre privacidad. Respuesta a los comentarios sobre “Privacidad es poder
Este artículo es la respuesta de la autora a las reseñas de su libro: Carissa Véliz, Privacy is power: why and how you should take back control of your data, (2020) Bantam Press, London, 268 pp. publicadas en Eunomía. Revista en Cultura de la Legalidad. No 21 (2021
Testing the Motivational Strength of Positive and Negative Duty Arguments Regarding Global Poverty
Two main types of philosophical arguments have been given in support of the claim that the citizens of affluent societies have stringent moral duties to aid the global poor: “positive duty” arguments based on the notion of beneficence and “negative duty” arguments based on noninterference. Peter Singer’s positive duty argument (Singer 1972) and Thomas Pogge’s negative duty argument (Pogge 2002) are among the most prominent examples. Philosophers …
Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics
The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics is a lively and authoritative guide to ethical issues related to digital technologies, with a special emphasis on AI. Philosophers with a wide range of expertise cover 37 topics, including: the right to have access to the internet, trolling and online shaming, speech on social media, fake news, sex robots and dating online, persuasive technology, value alignment, algorithmic bias, predictive policing, price d…
The Art of Strategic Conversation: Surveillance, AI, and the Imajine Scenarios
In this dialogue, we explore the use of scenarios to inform thinking about the surveillant dimensions of AI systems. The aim is neither to predict times to come nor express a desired state, but to manufacture contrasting future visions that challenge assumptions existing in the present. To consider these issues, we convened four researcher-practitioners—Carissa Véliz, Malka Older, Annina Lux, and Matthew Finch—whose work encompasses AI and privac…
The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics
Self-Esteem and Technological Unemployment: Should We Halt AI to Protect Meaningful Work
Should we insulate humanity from AI development in an effort to preserve people’s ability to form self-esteem and find meaning in their occupations? In this article, we take this possibility seriously and argue that technological insulation would ultimately fail in its aim. In doing so, we will consider two different scenarios: one in which we only halt the deployment of technology that would lead to our replacement as workers, and a second one i…
The Accuracy-Explainability Trade-off, the Right to Explanation, and the Implications for Organisations
Algorithms increasingly shape access to employment, credit, healthcare, and justice, yet the basis on which they do so is often opaque. A growing literature argues that affected individuals have a right to explanation, grounded in their interest in informed self-advocacy: the ability to understand and respond to decisions that bear on their life prospects. We examine whether this interest can sustain such a right. Explanations that serve self-adv…
Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Engineering (3 works)