2006
Decadence of the French Nietzsche
2006. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7391-1808-5 (paperback).
Academic record
Curriculum vitae
Academic biography
Formation in the history of philosophy and ethics.
Foundational work explored conceptions of selfhood built on a metaphysics of difference (Nietzsche, Bataille, Deleuze, the reversal of Platonism).
Current work engages the human dilemmas of artificial intelligence intersecting with autonomy, authenticity, privacy, and personal identity.
Contact & addresses
164 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
jbrusseau@pace.edu
jamesbrusseau.net
webpage.pace.edu/jbrusseau/
Pace University, NYC
Philosophy Department
1 Pace Plaza
New York, NY 10038
Areas
History of Philosophy, Philosophy & Ethics of AI
Career & education
University of Trento, Italy, Information Engineering and Computer Science, 2020-
Pace University, New York City, Philosophy and Computer Science, 2010-
California State University, Los Angeles, Philosophy, 2005-08
Mexican National University, Mexico City, Philosophy and Comparative Literature, 1994-2004.
Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D., Philosophy, 1993.
Université de Nice, France, 1991.
Vassar College, B.A., philosophy, 1987.
Books: Philosophy
1997
Isolated Experiences: Gilles Deleuze and the Solitudes of Reversed Platonism
1997. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Books: Ethics
2018
Business Ethics Workshop
2018. Editions 1–3. Boston: Boston Academic Publishing/FWK.
2015
Ethics Workshop
2015–2018. Editions 1–2. Boston: Boston Academic Publishing/FWK.
2017
Dignity, Pleasures, Vulgarity: Philosophy and Animal Rights
2017. New York: Overflow.
Papers & conference publications
2026
Ethics and Technology of the Mimetic AI Professor
2026. Book chapter in Myint Swe Khine (ed.), Design Thinking and Artificial Intelligence: Redefining Pedagogy, 1st ed. Taylor & Francis. Book DOI: 10.1201/9781003785538.
2026
An Ethics Framework for the Musical Metaverse
2026. Paper. Forthcoming.
2026
One-way Tickets, Recommendation Algorithms, and Identity Transformation
2026. Lecture. At Muhlenberg Ethics Center: Transform, Translate, Transcend. Muhlenberg College, USA.
2026
Acceleration AI ethics and the Telus GenAI conversational agent
2026. Paper. Law, Ethics & Technology, 3(2), article 0006. DOI: 10.55092/let20260006.
2026
When Freedom and Authenticity Diverge: James Brusseau on What Philosophy Sees in GenAI That No Other Discipline Does
2026. Interview by Roberto Zicari, ODBMS.org (Operational Database Management Systems), 31 August.
2026
Doha Debates: Are we heading into a world divided by AI tribes?
2026. Debate. At Al-Jazeera, Qatar. Episode released .
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2026
Who's Really Choosing? A conversation with James Brusseau
2026. Interview. The International Schools Podcast. Episode released .
2025
How Ethics Diverges between American and European AI
2025. Paper. BioLaw Journal – Rivista di BioDiritto, no. 3, pp. 261–264. DOI: 10.15168/2284-4503-3734.
2025
Recommendation Algorithms and Human Freedom, the Technology and Ethics
2025. Lecture, Joint IACAP/AISB Conference on Philosophy of Computing and AI, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, 1 July.
2025
The Dilemma Between Euphoria and Freedom in Recommendation Algorithms
2025. Paper. Annali di studi religiosi, 26, pp. 507–520 (October). Centro per le Scienze Religiose, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy. ISBN 979-12-218-2156-7. DOI: 10.53136/979122182156728.
2025
Predicting the unpredictable: re-engineering recommendation algorithms for freedom, society, and money
2025. Lecture at “Change my mind,” Speck and Tech, Trento, Italy, 8 July.
2025
Recommendation Algorithms, Freedom, Genhumanism
2025. Lecture at “AI between Freedom and Servitude”, Jean Monnet Chair on AI and Law (T4F), Faculty of Law, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, 31 March.
2025
The Freedom Recommendation
2025. Roundtable. Hosted by Alma Mater Artificial Intelligence Center, Alma Mater Europaea University, Austria, February 8, 2025.
2024
How to Set the AI Innovation Speed Limit
2024. Lecture, The AI Summit New York 2024, organized by Informa Tech. Javits Center, New York, NY, United States; conference held 11–12 December.
2024
AI Recommendation Algorithms and Human Freedom: Perspectives from Tech and Philosophy
2024. Roundtable. Hosted by Pace University, Seidenberg School of Computer Science, The Pace University AI Lab, and Dyson College, October 9, 2024, New York, NY, USA.
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2024
Equitable AI Audits: evaluating the evaluators in today’s world
2024. Conference paper. With Monique Munarini and Lorenzo Angeli. In ICEGOV ’24: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, pp. 1–8. ACM, New York. Conference: Pretoria, South Africa, 1–4 October. Best Research Paper Award. DOI: 10.1145/3680127.3680140.
2024
An Ethics Framework for the Internet of Musical Things
2024. Paper. With Luca Turchet. IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, 6(2), pp. 155–164 (June 2025). DOI: 10.1109/TTS.2024.3398423.
2024
How AI Generates Creativity from Inauthenticity
2024. Book chapter. Conference contribution in 2024; chapter published 2025. With Luca Turchet. In Alessandra Micalizzi (ed.), Artificial Creativity: Looking at the Future of Digital Culture, pp. 209–217. Springer Proceedings in Humanities and Social Sciences. Cham: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-88334-7_16. Artificial Creativity Conference (CACLFDC 2024), Pegaso University, Milan. ISBN 978-3-031-88333-0.
2024
Inclusion Ethics in AI: Use Cases in African Fashion
2024. Conference paper. With Christelle Scharff, Krishna Mohan Bathula, Kaleemunnisa Fnu, Samyak Rakesh Meshram, and Om Gaikhe. Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series, 3(1), pp. 516–521. AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Stanford University. DOI: 10.1609/aaaiss.v3i1.31266.
2023
Mapping AI avant-gardes in time: posthumanism, transhumanism, genhumanism
2023. Paper. Discover Artificial Intelligence, 3, article 32. DOI: 10.1007/s44163-023-00080-6.
2023
How to Accelerate Ethics for Innovation and Against Precaution in Generative AI
2023. Lecture, International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP 2023), hosted by CEVAST, Czech Academy of Sciences, at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Conference held 3–5 July.
2023
Acceleration AI Ethics, the Debate between Innovation and Safety, and Stability AI’s Diffusion versus OpenAI’s Dall-E
2023. Conference paper and lecture, International Conference on Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE 2023), hosted by Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA. Presented in the virtual program, 25 May. Paper published in the CEPE 2023 proceedings, 1(1).
Written paper
2023
Acceleration is the Right Ethics for Web3
2023. Lecture, Open Data & Open Infrastructure Summit (OpenD/I), organized by Openmesh, online. Summit held 5–7 December.
2023
Ethics Interview for Web3
2023. Interview (recorded), Open Data & Open Infrastructure Summit (OpenD/I), organized by Openmesh, online. Summit held 5–7 December.
2023
Due Diligence in AI: the path towards the AI Act into force
2023. Plenary panel contribution at Ital-IA 2023, Third CINI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, organized by the CINI National Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (AIIS) and Italy’s National Research Council (CNR). CNR Research Area, Pisa, Italy, .
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2023
How to Accelerate Ethics for Innovation and Against Precaution in Generative AI
2023. Article. Medium, 19 March.
2022
The Ethics Labyrinth of Mimetic AI Healthcare
2022. Lecture. The AI Summit New York 2022, organized by Informa Tech. Javits Center, New York, NY, United States; conference held 7–8 December.
2022
Assessing Trustworthy AI in Times of COVID-19: Deep Learning for Predicting a Multiregional Score Conveying the Degree of Lung Compromise in COVID-19 Patients
2022. Paper. Coauthored with Himanshi Allahabadi et al. IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, 3(4), pp. 272–289. DOI: 10.1109/TTS.2022.3195114.
2022
From the Ground Truth Up: Doing AI Ethics from Practice to Principles
2022. Paper. AI & Society, 38, pp. 1651–1657 (2023). DOI: 10.1007/s00146-021-01336-4.
Written paper
Philosophy Roulette 253
2022
Why automatic AI ethics evaluations are coming, and how they will work
2022. Paper. With Giovana Meloni Craveiro. Journal of AI, Robotics & Workplace Automation, 1(4), pp. 342–349. Henry Stewart Publications. DOI: 10.69554/PMUM8049.
2022
The AI Human Condition
2022. Lecture. DISI Seminar, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy, 24 May.
2022
What Does it Mean to be a Digital Nomad?
2022. Paper. Turkish Policy Quarterly, 20(4), Winter 2021–2022.
2021
Co-Design of a Trustworthy AI System in Healthcare: Deep Learning Based Skin Lesion Classifier
2021. Paper. Coauthored with Roberto V. Zicari et al. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 3, article 688152. Published 13 July. DOI: 10.3389/fhumd.2021.688152.
2021
New Healthcare Ethics to Manage the Potential of Al
2021. Lecture. The AI Summit New York, organized by Informa. Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, NY, United States. Conference held –.
2021
Building a case for decentralised AI ethics
2021. Article. Digital Frontiers, Observer Research Foundation, 18 October.
2021
AI Ethics Decentralized and Accelerated
2021. Lecture. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Information For All conference, 28 September.
2021
Using edge cases to disentangle fairness and solidarity in AI ethics
2021. Paper. AI and Ethics, 2, pp. 441–447 (2022). DOI: 10.1007/s43681-021-00090-z.
2021
AI Human Impact: Toward a Model for Ethical Investing in AI-Intensive Companies
2021. Paper. Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 13(2), pp. 1030–1057 (2023). DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2021.1874212.
2021
AI Human Impact: Updating ESG Investing for AI-Intensive Companies
2021. Lecture. 30th Annual Association for Practical and Professional Ethics International Conference (Virtual), February 25-27.
2021
On Assessing Trustworthy AI in Healthcare. Machine Learning as a Supportive Tool to Recognize Cardiac Arrest in Emergency Calls
2021. Paper. Coauthored with Roberto V. Zicari et al. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 3, article 673104. DOI: 10.3389/fhumd.2021.673104.
2021
A Process to Assess Trustworthy AI
2021. Paper. Coauthored with Roberto V. Zicari et al. IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, 2(2), pp. 83–97 (June). DOI: 10.1109/TTS.2021.3066209.
2021
Exploring the Complexities of AI Ethics
2021. Interview. Leaders of Analytics Podcast. Episode released .
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2021
Inside the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: For a Decentralized Approach
2021. Interview by Marco Emanuele. 27 October, The Science of Where.
2021
AI Human Impact: Toward a Model for Ethical Investing in AI-Intensive Companies
2021. Interview. AI Asia Pacific Institute Podcast.
2020
What a Philosopher Learned at an AI Ethics Evaluation
2020. Paper. AI Ethics Journal, 1(1)-4. Published 14 December. DOI: 10.47289/AIEJ20201214.
2020
2020
Euphoria Convenience
2020. Lecture, Data Science Salon, Virtual.
2020
How to put AI ethics into practice? AI Human Impact
2020. Lecture. AI Policy Exchange, National Law School of India University, Bangalore.
2020
Deleuze’s Postscript on the Societies of Control Updated for Big Data and Predictive Analytics
2020. Paper. Theoria 67 (164):1-25. DOI:10.3167/th.2020.6716401.
2020
Is no privacy the best AI privacy policy?
2020. Article. AI Policy Exchange, June 26. National Law School of India University, Bangalore.
2019
Why the Privacy Company is the Most Important Business You've Never Heard Of
2019. Lecture. Informa AI Summit, New York City. Conference held –.
2019
What is Big Data Vandalism?
2019. Lecture. Global AI in Boston, Conference.
2019
2019
Ethics of Disintegrating Identity in the Time of Big Data
2019. Lecture. Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts. Conference held –.
2019
What to Do When Privacy is Gone
2019. Conference paper in D. Wittkower (ed.), Computer Ethics – Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE) Proceedings, article 1, 7 pp. CEPE 2019: Risk & Cybersecurity, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA; conference held 28–30 May. Published 29 May. DOI: 10.25884/798y-hr54.
2019
Inside the Big Data Experience Machine
2019. Lecture. Ai4 R Conference, New York City; conference dates: –.
2019
Ethics of Identity in the Time of Big Data
2019. Paper. First Monday, 24(5), May issue. DOI: 10.5210/fm.v24i5.9624.
2019
Ethics as Curiosity
2019. Keynote address, Beta Alpha Psi Business Honors, Lubin School of Business, Pace University, New York City.
2018
Ethics of Identity in the Time of Big Data
2018. Lecture. 25th Annual International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference, St. John's University, New York City. Conference held –.
2018
Social Media Data and Personal Identity
2018. Lecture. North East Popular Culture Association, Worcester State University, Worcester, MA. Conference held –.
2017
Privacy, Identity and Authenticity in Big Data Reality
2017. Lecture. Third Speculative Ethics Forum, St. John's University, New York City.
2017
Dignity, Pleasures Vulgarity
2017. Interview
“James Brusseau on Animal Rights,” Animal Instinct on Heritage Radio Network, March 13, 2017.
2016
Wealth inequality interview
2016. Interview. “089: James Brusseau on Wealth Inequality and the Accursed Share.” Economic Rockstar, episode 89, 9 June.
2014
How Much Writing is Enough?
2014. Lecture, Derrida Today Conference, Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York City. .
2014
El trabajo sin lugar de trabajo: tecnología social y eliminación del espacio en la vida laboral
2014. Paper. Panorama Social, no. 18 (second semester 2013), pp. 63–72. Fundación de las Cajas de Ahorros (FUNCAS), Spain. Spanish translation by Carlos Luengo.
2013
Corporate Social Responsibility: To Yourself Be True
2013. Paper. With Larry Chiagouris and Rocio Fernandez Brusseau. Journal of Global Business and Technology, 9(1), pp. 53–63 (Spring). Global Business and Technology Association / Arcadia University.
2011
Adding Corporate Ethics to Brand Identity: Delineating What's Happening and Charting Possibilities
2011. Lecture. 18th International Conference on Business Ethics, St John’s University, New York City. Conference held –.
2010
Thinking Truth and Decadence
2010. Lecture. 43rd Meeting North Texas Philosophical Association, Dallas, TX.
2009
What is decadence in philosophy? How does it come between Rorty and Deleuze?
2009. Lecture. 42nd Meeting North Texas Philosophical Association, Dallas, TX.
2005
What is Decadent Philosophy
2005. Lecture. California State University, Fullerton.
2003
Dos relaciones entre pensamiento y verdad
2003. Lecture. Universidad de las Americas, Mexico D.F., Mexico.
2000
What is Decadent Philosophy
2000. Lecture. Jornada Filosófica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City.
1999
Two Relations between Thinking and Truth
1999. Lecture. Trent University, Canada.
1999
Violence and Repetition
1999. Book chapter in Phenomenological Approaches to Popular Culture, Eds. Carroll and Tafoya, (Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Press).
1997
Emily, the Patient, Bliss, Deleuze
1997. Paper. Synthesis, Vol. 2 No. 2. University of Tennessee and Paradigm Press, Fall: 37-49.
1997
Cuando el critico se torna malicioso
1997. Lecture at Simposio internacional: Tiempo, memoria y escritura (CONACYT 4333-S9406, CONACYT-CSIC, PADEP-97, 010008), Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico D.F., Mexico.
1997
La Diferencia es un verbo
1997. Lecture. Coloquio: Despues de Derrida, Universidad Anahuac, Mexico D.F., Mexico.
1997
The Difficulty of Writing the Same Book Again: Gilles Deleuze and 'Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote'
1997. Lecture. Instituto de Investigaciones Filologicas, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico D.F., Mexico.
1996
Violence and Repetition
1996. Lecture at Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas, Proyecto Teorias de la Interpretation (CONACYT 4333-S9406), Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico D.F., Mexico.
1994
Distance Without Measure: Deleuze and Augustine
1994. Lecture. International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
1994
Possession and Difference
1994. Lecture. Pennsylvania State University Philosophy Society, University Park, Pennsylvania.
1993
Desire For Bataille's Images
1993. Lecture. International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1993
Tell the Difference: Using Gilles Deleuze
1993. Lecture. Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture conference, Binghamton, New York.
1992
Rationality Encountering Literary Materialism
1992. Lecture. International Association for Philosophy and Literature, San Francisco, California.
1992
A Missing Boulevard in Versailles: Reading Time in Proust
1992. Paper. SubStance, 21(2), issue 68, pp. 102–110. University of Wisconsin Press. DOI: 10.2307/3684905.
1991
These Sober Pages: Augustine's Confessions
1991. Paper. Literature and Theology, 5(2), pp. 151–161 (June). Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/litthe/5.2.151.
Panels, podcasts & interviews
2023
Ethics Statements, Industry Impacts and Planning for the Future
2023. Virtual roundtable at GlueUp Management Software. .
2022
2020
How to Secure Representative Data Sets & Reduce Bias
2020. Lecture. ReWork: AI in RegTech Virtual Summit, September 17.
2020
How Do You Build an Ethical, AI-Augmented Organisation That People Want to Work For?
2020. Lecture. AI Summit Silicon Valley, CA.
2019
Coming Apart: How we became one nation divided by content, and what we can do about it
2019. Panel (panelist), AI Summit New York, New York City. Conference held –.
2019
Algorithmic Bias and Risk
2019. Panel (panelist), Chief Data & Analytics Officers Meeting, Boston.
2019
Assessing Privacy & Regulation in AI Development & Deployment in Insurance
2019. Panel (panelist and moderator), AI in Insurance Summit / ReWork, New York City.
2016
Corporate malfeasance interview
2016. Interview.
“Insight: Why even the best companies commit systematic fraud (Indsigt: Derfor begår selv de bedste virksomheder systematisk svindel),” Jyllands-Posten (Denmark), May 12, 2016 (Finans).
2016
Wealth inequality interview
2016. Interview. “Dr. James Brusseau on Inequality & Philosophy.” Hopping Mad, Netroots Radio, 20 June.
2016
Wealth inequality interview
2016. Interview.
“Philosophy of Wealth Inequality.” Chuck Morse, Blog Talk Radio, June 1, 2016.
Media production & resources
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Surveillance Camera Man and the Ethics of Public Filming
Undated. Documentary. CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
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Graduate dissertations, director/committee member
Francesco Balzan, Ph.D., Italian National AI Ph.D., Pisa Italy, Machine-in-the-Loop. Reclaiming Human-Centered Knowledge Building and Decision-Making in AI for Education, 2026.
Trudie Coetzee, Ph.D., University of Pretoria, South Africa, Pursuing the Human(E) Route Towards Generative AI Integration, 2026.
Monique Munarini, Ph.D. Italian National AI Ph.D., Pisa Italy, 2026.
Scott Skipworth, Ph.D., Torrens University Australia, The Internet of Things (IoT) Disseminating Human Embodimentin Architectural Theory and Practice, 2022.
Moises del Pino Pena, Ph.D., Philosophy, Mexican National University, Simulacros de la existencia: hacia una ontopoetica de la ficcion literaria, 2002.
Alicia Montemayor, M.A., Philosophy, Mexican National University, De poemas mudos y pinturas parlantes: sobre el discurso pictorico en la Grecia del periodo clasico, Co-Director, 2001.