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The Ethical Data Initiative Blog is a space for colleagues, affiliates and partners to reflect on the ethical dimensions of their work. If you would like to get involved, please submit an article to kathryn.bailey[at]ethicaldatainitiative.org
Finding the Flaw: A Journey Toward Ethical AI
Giuseppe Primiero is Professor of Logic at the Department of Philosophy, University of MIlan and co-founder and Chief Research Officer of MIRAI. His focus in MIRAI is the development of formal methods for bias assessment, risk evaluation, and correction of AI models.https://www.linkedin.com/in/gprimiero/ Davide Posillipo is a Lead Data Scientist and co-founder of MIRAI, with experience…
Should We Expect AI to Be Explainable?
By Laura GorrieriAbout the author: Laura Gorrieri is a PhD candidate in Philosophy with a focus on Ethics and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Turin. Laura’s work focuses on the ethics of artificial intelligence, with particular attention to the social impacts of Large Language Models and the linguistic functioning of AI systems. What should…
Navigating Ethical Risks in Environmental Citizen Science
By Evan JosselinAbout the author: Evan Josselin is a PhD student in philosophy of science at the Institut Jean Nicod (ENS–PSL, CNRS). Their research explores the intersection of philosophy of science and marine biology, with a particular focus on marine citizen science. Evan works closely with the marine citizen science project Plankton Planet project and the…
Reflecting and acting on the Ethical Data Initiative townhall by RDA Secretary General Hilary Hanahoe
In a new blog post published on the Research Data Alliance (RDA) website, RDA secretary general Hilary Hanahoe reflects on her time at the first Ethical Data Initiative townhall and makes a call for action for working closely together going forward.
My Ethical Data Initiative: Intelligent transparency in the use of official statistics
By Ed Humpherson, head of the UK’s Office for Statistics Regulation1. Ed is an EDI affiliate. This blog reflects his flash talk at the 2025 EDI Town Hall “Shaping the Future of Data Ethics” on 31 March 2025. The regulation of official statistics may sound like a dry and technical subject. But in fact it…
Shaping the Future of Data Ethics: EDI Town Hall 2025
It has now been little over one month since the Ethical Data Initiative (EDI) hosted its first annual multi-stakeholder town hall meeting titled “Shaping the Future of Data Ethics”. From early in the morning on Monday the 31st of March 2025, EDI affiliates, data ethics experts from around the world, as well as some of…
Data Shadows: When data become tangible, material, and fragile
This review of the artistic film collaboration Data Shadows was recently published in Cell Press open-access scientific journal Patterns. How can data—their compositions, movements, and journeys through human activities and nonhuman surroundings—be visualized? This is the central question explored in Data Shadows, a film collaboration by artist and codirector Jacob van der Beugel, philosopher Sabina Leonelli,…
Understanding Misinformation: International Symposium
Blogpost by: Kim Hajek, Paul Trauttmansdorf, Sabina Leonelli This well-attended event, held on 9 December 2024 at Munich’s Hansa House, saw EDI Director and TUM chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology, Sabina Leonelli, in conversation with her international co-authors of a book in preparation on understanding misinformation: Maya Goldenberg, University of Guelph,…