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Alex John London

@unityofvirtue.bsky.social
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Author: For the a common Good: Philosophical Foundations of Research Ethics (OUP) and K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies at CMU. Recent papers: arxiv.org/abs/2308.00868 doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2022.100622

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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
Glad to see our paper is out, free and open access: “Resolving the Human-subjects Status of Machine Learning's Crowdworkers” with @kaushikdivyansh.dev and @zacharylipton.bsky.social dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
Glad to see our paper is out, free and open access: “Resolving the Human-subjects Status of Machine Learning's Crowdworkers” with @kaushikdivyansh.dev and @zacharylipton.bsky.social dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Had a wonderful day in Toronto yesterday. Participated in a roundtable with faculty and students and gave a lecture on AI in medicine at the JCB. Lovely dinner with good friends after capped a marvelous visit.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
In case this got lost in the weekend, please check out our new paper #philsci #bioethics #AI
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Just out, free and open access, “A Normative Framework for Artificial Intelligence as a Sociotechnical System in Healthcare” with @mdmccradden.bsky.social Shalmali Joshua and James Anderson. Extends the concept of an “intervention ensemble” to AI in medicine… www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
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A normative framework for artificial intelligence as a sociotechnical system in healthcare
Reliable, beneficial use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine requires the evaluation of its performance and the conditions that are linked with relevant outcomes. Rather than narrowly focusing...
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
Love that face, omg
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Thoughtful new review of my book by Soren Holm in Clinical Trials, “This is […] undoubtedly one of the most important books about biomedical research ethics to appear in the last 20 years.” Still 1 copy left on Amazon! (PDF is free & OA) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
May it live long and prosper
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Looks like a very fun class. Thanks for sharing.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Thoughtful new review of my book by Soren Holm in Clinical Trials, “This is […] undoubtedly one of the most important books about biomedical research ethics to appear in the last 20 years.” Still 1 copy left on Amazon! (PDF is free & OA) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
I’m not clicking the link, but this “skeet” is a thing of beauty.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Come on, man! That’s too kind.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
In the present case I’m at the stage where the question is: what do you even mean by “issues of values.”
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
I get it. I would walk away but I’m afraid this boulder and this hill are all I have.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
To be honest, working to get to the point where folks want to hear this is tiring.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
It’s difficult to explain to non-ethics people how much of my professional life is basically dealing with people who don’t see any value in ethics (because they don’t understand what it might be) but who feel forced to engage with me because of some external requirement.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Since the LLMs like to make sh@t it—why didn’t I go to Stanford after all??—it couldn’t either way. But I should give it a try. All incoming email will go to my LLM assistant from now on.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
I just realized I’m giving a talk or doing some kind of presentation 6 of the next 7 days. I really need to replace the idiot who does my schedule 🙃
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
It seems like decisions in big tech firms are increasingly being made by tech/business leaders who either don’t consider the ethical issues or don’t regard them as on par with the goal of being first and trying to maximize revenue.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
6. Back to emptiness. A great candle in the cold emptiness flickered and vanished in a spray of dust—as we all will one day.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
5. The brittle metal in their wild hearts absorbed energy until one day the lattice of life fell apart and the stars exploded in a cosmic calamity. The light went out. Atoms were spread across the universe. All in silence. Back to darkness.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
4. the pressure and the heat were so intense that the star produced the first iron in its heart. Heavy and brittle, iron consumed rather than produced energy. In their core these stars were pressing their energy into a mighty task that turned their hearts to iron. It was death.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
3. In the beginning the first stars were really fecund. In their wild hearts the reactions produced helium and oxygen and these combinations produced more light and heat, building the intensity of reaction. Until, at some point,
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Wednesday we had the official ceremony conferring my new chair. Complete with physical 🪑. Honored to be recognized alongside @hoda-heidari.bsky.social and Brad Myers.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Fewer, better movies of increasing depth and brilliance—but it’s not possible.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
“I know that we’re short of time but luckily time stands still when I’m talking.”
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Ironically, I think this WAS demonstrated in the recent exhibition!
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Until they can show that the cyber truck offers protection from the arrows of outrageous fortune I’m still not interested.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
The most frightening thing I’ve ever seen is how people will treat one another. There is no need for devils and demons when you have seen the works of a callous heart.
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Please follow the @center4philsci.bsky.social. We will be posting about the events at the Center for Philosophy of Science at Pitt! Share widely. #PhilSky
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Daisy handing out candy on Halloween
A dog sits on a front porch between two carved pumpkins next to two bowls of candy.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
WUT
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
The best part of this story is that my daughter gets her first photo credit in the Wall Street Journal! www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
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Forget the Podcast: Make Your Commute Productive
For many, the old standbys feel like a waste of time. Workers are instead embracing more meaningful activity on the go.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Yes, completely different. A good collaboration has to be built on trust because honest criticism of an idea or writing is difficult to take.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
I find this is true of my best collaborations—that they are part of a process of discovery that requires real trust and the ability to move outside of your own ego and to be open to being changed.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
The best part of this story is that my daughter gets her first photo credit in the Wall Street Journal! www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
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Forget the Podcast: Make Your Commute Productive
For many, the old standbys feel like a waste of time. Workers are instead embracing more meaningful activity on the go.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
Remember: Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus!
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Huge accomplishment: I just drilled out a stripped screw and replaced the cartridge in my shower faucet. No leaks so far. This calls for a celebratory drink I think.
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
FYI I always enjoy your photos!
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Looking forward to giving this talk at the University of Toronto on Nov 15th www.eventbrite.ca/e/ethics-unc...
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Ethics, Uncertainty, and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Join us at JCB-WIHV Lecture series featuring Dr. Alex John London. Co-hosted by T-CAIREM.
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
Only one more week to apply to one of these two jobs at Pitt! Join us! Phil cognitive science and neuroscience. #philsky
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
I guess the game is to move on to the next amazing approach before people catch up to the burst bubbles from the inflated claims about yesterday’s amazing approach. At least they note that radiology is still alive and kicking (cough, Hinton) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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An AI revolution is brewing in medicine. What will it look like?
Emerging generalist models could overcome some limitations of first-generation machine-learning tools for clinical use. Emerging generalist models could overcome some limitations of first-generation m...
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Things you hear when people at conferences find out you work at CMU: Oh, so are you a Bayesian? Oh, so do you work on causal discovery?
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Being introduced for my plenary talk as part of the session on integrating AI and ML into research and clinical care: scientific and ethical challenges at The Till & McCulloch Meetings (TMM) hosted by the stem Cell Network
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Being introduced for my plenary talk as part of the session on integrating AI and ML into research and clinical care: scientific and ethical challenges at The Till & McCulloch Meetings (TMM) hosted by the stem Cell Network
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
So this isn’t common knowledge in the field then?
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
But, would it? 🤔
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Alex John London @unityofvirtue.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
Movies should be rated “Kantian” or “non-Kantian”
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