Todd Karhu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5969025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Todd Karhu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Todd |
| FAMILY NAME | Karhu |
| SIGNATURE | KARHU T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3810-8047 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Getting machines to do your dirty work
Autonomous systems are machines that can alter their behavior without direct human oversight or control. How ought we to program them to behave? A plausible starting point is given by the Reduction to Acts Thesis, according to which we ought to program autonomous systems to do whatever a human agent ought to do in the same circumstances. Although the Reduction to Acts Thesis is initially appealing, we argue that it is false: it is sometimes permi…
What Justifies Our Bias Toward the Future
A person is biased toward the future when she prefers, other things being equal, bad events to be in her past rather than her future, or good ones to be in her future rather than her past. In this paper, I explain why both critics and defenders of future bias have failed to consider the best version of the view. I distinguish external time from personal time, and argue that future bias is best construed in terms of the latter. This conception of …
Proportionality in the Liability to Compensate
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Proportionality in the Liability to Compensate
What Justifies Our Bias Toward the Future
A person is biased toward the future when she prefers, other things being equal, bad events to be in her past rather than her future, or good ones to be in her future rather than her past. In this paper, I explain why both critics and defenders of future bias have failed to consider the best version of the view. I distinguish external time from personal time, and argue that future bias is best construed in terms of the latter. This conception of …
Getting machines to do your dirty work
Autonomous systems are machines that can alter their behavior without direct human oversight or control. How ought we to program them to behave? A plausible starting point is given by the Reduction to Acts Thesis, according to which we ought to program autonomous systems to do whatever a human agent ought to do in the same circumstances. Although the Reduction to Acts Thesis is initially appealing, we argue that it is false: it is sometimes permi…
Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Free Will and Agency (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Autonomous agent (1 works) · Autonomous system (mathematics) (1 works)