Dignity at Risk: Discovering the Human in Algorithmic Risk Scores

Weekly internal seminar by Margarita Boenig-Lipstin, Research Associate in the Division of Computing, Data Science and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, and 2021-2022 Paris IAS Fellow.

Communication discussed by Gabriel Ganascia, Professeur d’informatique à Sorbonne Université, président du comité d'éthique du CNRS et membre du comité pilote de l’éthique du numérique du Comité Consultatif National d’Éthique.

Presentation

This research project investigates to what extent the co-production of the idea of human dignity with data technologies through the 20th century and in relation to the present rise of autonomous and intelligent systems is a way to reveal what it means to be human in a world of ubiquitous data and algorithms.