# James Brusseau — Research themes

Ideas & connections

# Research themes

Ways into the work, from the history of philosophy to the ethics of artificial intelligence.

01

## Autonomy, authenticity, and recommendation algorithms

Autonomy, authenticity, and recommendation algorithms. Algorithmic recommenders increasingly shape experience, from entertainment and work, to encountering ideas and people. Because future interests are predicted from our past preferences, recommenders function by recycling who we have already been, and that recursivity raises new questions about personal identity, freedom, and authenticity. There are also questions about breaking out of the algorithmic feedback loop: How can we diverge from who we have been? What does that mean in lived experience? How could it be accomplished theoretically, technically, and practically?

Mapping AI avant-gardes in time: posthumanism, transhumanism, genhumanism. 2023. Paper. Discover Artificial Intelligence, 3, article 32. DOI: [10.1007/s44163-023-00080-6](https://doi.org/10.1007/s44163-023-00080-6). [Text](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44163-023-00080-6) | [PhilArchive](https://philarchive.org/archive/BRUMAA-7) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0029.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0029-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0029/edition/reading/written.md)

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](https://doi.org/10.53136/979122182156728). [Text](https://www.aracneeditrice.eu/free-download/979122182156728.pdf) | [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11465) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0031.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0031-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0031/edition/reading/written.md)

Recommendation Algorithms, Freedom, Genhumanism. 2025. Lecture at [“AI between Freedom and Servitude”](https://cjm.unitn.it/sites/cjm.unitn.it/files/download/188/25.3%20AI%20between%20%20Freedom%20and%20Servitude.pdf), Jean Monnet Chair on AI and Law (T4F), Faculty of Law, University of Trento, Trento, Italy, 31 March.  [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEc4LD_HSA0) | [Download video](https://jamesbrusseau.net/video/DISC-0033.mp4) | [Slides](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/slides/RAs-Discon-GenH.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0033-combined-speech-slides.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0033/edition/reading/combined.md)

The Freedom Recommendation. 2025. Roundtable. [Hosted by Alma Mater Artificial Intelligence Center, Alma Mater Europaea University](https://vimeo.com/1056728616#t=24m20s&share=copy), Austria, February 8, 2025. [Video](https://vimeo.com/1056728616#t=24m20s) | [Download video](https://jamesbrusseau.net/video/DISC-0082.mp4) | [Slides](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/slides/Brusseau-AlmaMater.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0082-combined-speech-slides.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0082/edition/reading/combined.md)

Predicting the unpredictable: re-engineering recommendation algorithms for freedom, society, and money. 2025. Lecture at “Change my mind,” [Speck and Tech](https://speckand.tech/2025/07/change-my-mind), Trento, Italy, 8 July.[Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt2T39WPHAA) | [Download video](https://jamesbrusseau.net/video/DISC-0083.mp4) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0083-combined-speech-slides.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0083/edition/reading/combined.md)

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](https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/theoria/67/164/th6716401.xml). [Text](https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/theoria/67/164/th6716401.xml) | [PhilPapers](https://philpapers.org/archive/BRUD_O-4.pdf) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0016.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0016-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0016/edition/reading/written.md)

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](https://doi.org/10.25884/798y-hr54). [Text](https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/cepe_proceedings/vol2019/iss1/1/) | [PhilPapers](https://philpapers.org/archive/BRUWTD-3.pdf) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0014.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0014-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0014/edition/reading/written.md)

Inside the Big Data Experience Machine. 2019. Lecture. [Ai4 R Conference](http://ai.ethicsworkshop.org/#ai4tag), New York City; conference dates: 24–25 June 2019. [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vAdM5yPH1o) | [Download video](https://jamesbrusseau.net/video/DISC-0015.mp4) | [Slides](http://ai.ethicsworkshop.org/Library/Brusseau-Ai4-DeckPdf.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0015-combined-speech-slides.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0015/edition/reading/combined.md)

Ethics of Identity in the Time of Big Data. 2019. Paper. First Monday, 24(5), May issue. DOI: [10.5210/fm.v24i5.9624](https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i5.9624). [Text](https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/9624) | [PhilArchive](https://philarchive.org/archive/BRUEOI-2) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0013.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0013-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0013/edition/reading/written.md)

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 25–27 October 2018. [PhilPapers](https://philpapers.org/archive/BRUEOI-2.pdf) | [PhilArchive](https://philarchive.org/archive/BRUEOI-2) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0012.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0012-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0012/edition/reading/written.md)

Ethics of Disintegrating Identity in the Time of Big Data. 2019. Lecture. [Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting](http://ai.ethicsworkshop.org/#SBE19), Boston, Massachusetts. Conference held 9–11 August 2019.  [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TMBVK8YPDI) | [Download video](https://jamesbrusseau.net/video/DISC-0060.mp4) | [Slides](http://ai.ethicsworkshop.org/Library/Brusseau-SBE-Boston2019-DeckPDF.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0060-combined-speech-slides.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0060/edition/reading/combined.md)

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](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-88334-7), pp. 209–217. Springer Proceedings in Humanities and Social Sciences. Cham: Springer. DOI: [10.1007/978-3-031-88334-7_16](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88334-7_16). Artificial Creativity Conference (CACLFDC 2024), Pegaso University, Milan. ISBN 978-3-031-88333-0. [Text](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88334-7_16) | [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11463) | [PhilPapers](https://philpapers.org/archive/BRUHAG-3.pdf) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0030.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0030-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0030/edition/reading/written.md)

The AI Human Condition. 2022. Lecture. [DISI Seminar](https://webmagazine.unitn.it/en/evento/disi/109245/the-ai-human-condition), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy, 24 May.  [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQJGo-Qvh9o) | [Download video](https://jamesbrusseau.net/video/DISC-0025.mp4) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0025-combined-speech-slides.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0025/edition/reading/combined.md)

What Does it Mean to be a Digital Nomad? 2022. Paper. Turkish Policy Quarterly, 20(4), Winter 2021–2022. [ResearchGate](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359440096_What_Does_it_Mean_to_be_a_Digital_Nomad) | [PhilArchive](https://philarchive.org/archive/BRUWDI) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0026.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0026-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0026/edition/reading/written.md)

Euphoria Convenience. 2020. Lecture, [Data Science Salon](https://info.datascience.salon/dss-webinars-euphoria-convenience), Virtual.[Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpdaB7d1b0o) | [Download video](https://jamesbrusseau.net/video/DISC-0017.mp4) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0017-combined-speech-slides.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0017/edition/reading/combined.md)

Is no privacy the best AI privacy policy? 2020. Article. AI Policy Exchange, June 26. National Law School of India University, Bangalore. [Text](https://aipolicyexchange.org/2020/06/26/is-no-privacy-the-best-ai-privacy-policy/) | [Web archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20210228162002/https://aipolicyexchange.org/2020/06/26/is-no-privacy-the-best-ai-privacy-policy/) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0018.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0018-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0018/edition/reading/written.md)

What is Big Data Vandalism? 2019. Lecture. [Global AI in Boston](http://ai.ethicsworkshop.org/#BigDataVandalsim), Conference. [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNB7Em0oM-U) | [Download video](https://jamesbrusseau.net/video/DISC-0062.mp4) | [Slides](http://ai.ethicsworkshop.org/Library/Brusseau-Deck-GlobalAI-BostonOctober2019.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0062-combined-speech-slides.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0062/edition/reading/combined.md)

How Much Writing is Enough? 2014. Lecture, Derrida Today Conference, Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York City. 31 May 2014. [PhilPapers](https://philpapers.org/archive/BRUHMW.pdf) | [PhilArchive](https://philarchive.org/archive/BRUHMW) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0010.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0010-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0010/edition/reading/written.md)

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.[Text](https://www.funcas.es/wp-content/uploads/Migracion/Articulos/FUNCAS_PS/018art06.pdf) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0055.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0055-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0055/edition/reading/written.md)

02

## Acceleration AI ethics

Acceleration AI ethics applies to the debate between innovation and safety in technological development. Are innovation’s accompanying problems best solved with still more innovation? Or, should the guarantee of safety precede technological advance? The acceleration response is the first, and the work of acceleration ethics is to investigate the fundamental values supporting the approach.

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).  [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZt3XgynuBw) [Text](https://journals.library.iit.edu/index.php/CEPE2023/article/view/293) | [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.01834) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0027.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0027-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0027/edition/reading/written.md)

Acceleration AI ethics and the Telus GenAI conversational agent. 2026. Paper. Law, Ethics & Technology, 3(2), article 0006. DOI: [10.55092/let20260006](https://doi.org/10.55092/let20260006). [Text](https://doi.org/10.55092/let20260006) | [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18038) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0035.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0035-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0035/edition/reading/written.md)

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](https://doi.org/10.15168/2284-4503-3734).[Text](https://teseo.unitn.it/biolaw/article/download/3734/4058/11008) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0034.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0034-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0034/edition/reading/written.md)

AI Ethics Decentralized and Accelerated. 2021. Lecture. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ([UNESCO](https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000381489?posInSet=1&queryId=N-EXPLORE-b66dee46-8792-4c78-b6ee-b7cf1a8c70a6)) Information For All conference, 28 September.  [Video](https://youtu.be/WXg4WWAzC0Q) | [Download video](https://jamesbrusseau.net/video/DISC-0085.mp4)

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. [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d81rbxLxHVI) | [Download video](https://jamesbrusseau.net/video/DISC-0074.mp4) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0074-combined-speech-slides.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0074/edition/reading/combined.md)

Ethics Interview for Web3. 2023. Interview (recorded), Open Data & Open Infrastructure Summit (OpenD/I), organized by Openmesh, online. Summit held 5–7 December. [Video](https://youtu.be/JLOm4ojr2LI) | [Download video](https://jamesbrusseau.net/video/DISC-0075.mp4) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0075-speech.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0075/edition/reading/speech.md)

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.  [Deck](http://ai.ethicsworkshop.org/Library/Brusseau-Deck-IACAP-2023-Prague.pdf)[Text](https://zenodo.org/record/8024361/preview/Brusseau-IACAP-2023.pdf) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0028.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0028-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0028/edition/reading/written.md)

Building a case for decentralised AI ethics. 2021. Article. Digital Frontiers, Observer Research Foundation, 18 October. [Text](https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/building-a-case-for-decentralised-ai-ethics/) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0022.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0022-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0022/edition/reading/written.md)

Acceleration is the right ethics for web3 and decentralized communities. 2023. Lecture and interview, Open Data and Infrastructure Summit 2023, Virtual.     
					    
						   
					

Acceleration is the Right Ethics for Web3

[Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d81rbxLxHVI) | [Download video](https://jamesbrusseau.net/video/DISC-0074.mp4) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0074-combined-speech-slides.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0074/edition/reading/combined.md)

Ethics Interview for Web3

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Inside the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: For a Decentralized Approach. 2021. Interview by Marco Emanuele. 27 October, The Science of Where. [Text](https://www.thescienceofwheremagazine.it/2021/10/27/inside-the-ethics-of-artificial-intelligence-for-a-decentralized-approach/) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/MEDIA-0006.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/MEDIA-0006-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/MEDIA-0006/edition/reading/written.md)

03

## AI ethics evaluations

AI ethics evaluations are pursued through three steps. First, a socio-technical scenario is developed to explain the AI tool in language that crosses applicable domains. In the case of a medical tool, the domains would include ethics, computer science, medicine, law, and business. Second, the evaluation is executed by applying the ethical values to the tool, and by applying the tool’s use to the values. Finally, a report documents the process and may propose recommendations.

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](https://doi.org/10.1080/20430795.2021.1874212). [Text](http://ssrn.com/abstract=3648545) | [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07703) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0066.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0066-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0066/edition/reading/written.md)

What a Philosopher Learned at an AI Ethics Evaluation. 2020. Paper. AI Ethics Journal, 1(1)-4. Published 14 December. DOI: [10.47289/AIEJ20201214](https://doi.org/10.47289/AIEJ20201214).[Text](https://www.aiethicsjournal.org/10-47289-aiej20201214) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0019.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0019-written-reading-pdf-version-pdf.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0019/edition/reading/written-pdf.md) | [Read written reading (HTML version)](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0019-written-reading-html-version.html) | [Markdown — written reading (HTML version)](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0019/edition/reading/written-html.md)

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](https://doi.org/10.1109/TTS.2021.3066209).[Text](https://doi.org/10.1109/TTS.2021.3066209) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0020.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0020-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0020/edition/reading/written.md)

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](https://doi.org/10.1109/TTS.2024.3398423). [Text](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10538251) | [Trento repository](https://iris.unitn.it/retrieve/e53fc91d-0888-4498-9414-7e8d92eeb748/An_Ethics_Framework_for_the_Internet_of_Musical_Things.pdf) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0078.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0078-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0078/edition/reading/written.md)

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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01336-4).  [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHQkm2vMru8)[Text](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01336-4) | [PhilPapers](https://philpapers.org/rec/BRUFTG) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0024.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0024-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0024/edition/reading/written.md)

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](https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-021-00090-z). [Text](https://rdcu.be/cx8kO) | [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.04837) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0021.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0021-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0021/edition/reading/written.md)

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](https://doi.org/10.1109/TTS.2022.3195114).[Text](https://doi.org/10.1109/TTS.2022.3195114) | [PubMed Central](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9762021/) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0071.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0071-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0071/edition/reading/written.md)

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. [Video](https://youtu.be/t8cnQ-sfGZs) | [Download video](https://jamesbrusseau.net/video/DISC-0067.mp4) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0067-combined-speech-slides.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0067/edition/reading/combined.md)

How to put AI ethics into practice? AI Human Impact. 2020. Lecture. [AI Policy Exchange](https://aipolicyexchange.org/2020/08/07/expert-vlogging-series-1-0-how-to-put-ai-ethics-into-practice-james-brusseau-director-ai-ethics-site-pace-university-new-york/), National Law School of India University, Bangalore.[Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oKRUYU4AbM) | [Download video](https://jamesbrusseau.net/video/DISC-0064.mp4) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0064-combined-speech-slides.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0064/edition/reading/combined.md)

AI Human Impact: Toward a Model for Ethical Investing in AI-Intensive Companies. 2021. Interview. AI Asia Pacific Institute Podcast. [Audio](https://anchor.fm/s/a95bdc0/podcast/play/19608606/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2020-09-14%2F3b3e38e6472d5f4b53126682eee9442b.m4a) | [Download audio](https://jamesbrusseau.net/audio/MEDIA-0007.m4a) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/MEDIA-0007-speech.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/MEDIA-0007/edition/reading/speech.md)

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](https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2021.673104).[Text](https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-dynamics/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2021.673104/full) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0068.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0068-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0068/edition/reading/written.md)

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](https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2021.688152).[Text](https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-dynamics/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2021.688152/full) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0069.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0069-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0069/edition/reading/written.md)

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](https://doi.org/10.1145/3680127.3680140). [Text](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3680127.3680140) | [Trento repository](https://iris.unitn.it/retrieve/handle/11572/442890/907027/) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0077.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0077-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0077/edition/reading/written.md)

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](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaaiss.v3i1.31266).[Text](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI-SS/article/download/31266/33426/35322) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0079.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0079-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0079/edition/reading/written.md)

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](https://doi.org/10.69554/PMUM8049). [Text](https://www.henrystewartpublications.com/airwa/v1) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0072.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0072-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0072/edition/reading/written.md)

AI ethics as an Investment Strategy. 2020. Lecture. [Global Big Data Conference](https://www.linkedin.com/company/globalbigdataconference/), Virtual. [Video](https://youtu.be/UAoyVj9JUs0) | [Slides](http://aihumanimpact.org/library/AIHI-Boston2020.pdf)

Due Diligence in AI: the path towards the AI Act into force. 2023. Plenary panel contribution at [Ital-IA 2023](https://www.youtube.com/live/m8Ebt_HKdEA?si=o-Og0tP4od6Q-qUT&t=7326), 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, 31 May 2023.  

Plenary

[Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Ebt_HKdEA) | [Download video](https://jamesbrusseau.net/video/DISC-0076.mp4) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0076-combined-speech-slides.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0076/edition/reading/combined.md)

What is the AI major challenge?

[Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1PogUTSQS0) | [Download video](https://jamesbrusseau.net/video/DISC-0087.mp4) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0087-speech.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0087/edition/reading/speech.md)

What is your main concern related to the AI?

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Exploring the Complexities of AI Ethics. 2021. Interview. [Leaders of Analytics](https://www.leadersofanalytics.com/episode/exploring-the-complexities-of-ai-ethics-with-james-brusseau) Podcast. Episode released 30 November 2021. [Audio](https://www.buzzsprout.com/2440473/episodes/16412806-exploring-the-complexities-of-ai-ethics-with-james-brusseau.mp3) | [Download audio](https://jamesbrusseau.net/audio/MEDIA-0005.mp3)

04

## Decadence of the French Nietzsche

Decadence of the French Nietzsche argues that the relation between thinking and truth reverses in some aspects of post-Nietzschean philosophy. We do not have thought to reach truth, instead, we have truths to catalyze more thinking. For decadents, every philosophic conclusion is valued purely in terms of its ability to generate more thought. It is unclear whether this is a desirable development. Deleuze is a principle figure, as well as Derrida and Foucault. Finally, the concept of decadence is investigated in terms of human experience.

Decadence of the French Nietzsche. 2006. Book. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7391-1808-5 (paperback). [PhilPapers](https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=BRUDOT-4&aid=BRUDOT-4v1) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0007.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0007-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0007/edition/reading/written.md)

What is Decadent Philosophy, 2005. Lecture. At Philosophy Talks 2005 Conference, California State University, Fullerton.

[Introduction to Decadence of the French Nietzsche](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/Decadence-of-the-French-Nietzsche-Introduction.pdf) — Reading selection.

What is decadence in philosophy? How does it come between Rorty and Deleuze? 2009. Lecture. 42nd Meeting North Texas Philosophical Association, Dallas, TX. [PhilPapers](https://philpapers.org/archive/BRUWID-3.pdf) | [PhilArchive](https://philarchive.org/archive/BRUWID-3) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0008.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0008-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0008/edition/reading/written.md)

What is Decadent Philosophy. 2000. Lecture. Jornada Filosófica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City. [PhilPapers](https://philpapers.org/archive/BRUWID-2.pdf) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0005.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0005-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0005/edition/reading/written.md)

Two Relations between Thinking and Truth. 1999. Lecture. Trent University, Canada. [PhilPapers](https://philpapers.org/archive/BRUTRB-2.pdf) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0004.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0004-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0004/edition/reading/written.md)

How Much Writing is Enough? 2014. Lecture, Derrida Today Conference, Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York City. 31 May 2014. [PhilPapers](https://philpapers.org/archive/BRUHMW.pdf) | [PhilArchive](https://philarchive.org/archive/BRUHMW) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0010.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0010-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0010/edition/reading/written.md)

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## Isolated Experiences

Isolated Experiences argues for the radical discontinuity of personal identity, and the emergence of new personal identities, within the larger context of Gilles Deleuze’s reversal of Platonism. The theoretical foundation is the metaphysics of difference as developed by Deleuze, Georges Bataille, and Nietzsche. Practically, the experience of discontinuity in personal identity is explored through literary works, including the writings of the nomadic traveler Isabelle Eberhardt.

Isolated Experiences: Gilles Deleuze and the Solitudes of Reversed Platonism. 1997. Book. Albany: State University of New York Press. [PhilPapers](https://philpapers.org/archive/BRUIEG.pdf) | [Download](https://jamesbrusseau.net/pdf/DISC-0001.pdf) | [Read online](https://jamesbrusseau.net/readers/DISC-0001-written-reading.html) | [Markdown](https://jamesbrusseau.net/markdown/DISC-0001/edition/reading/written.md)

Selection: [Nouns and Verbs](https://philpapers.org/archive/BRUNAV-2.pdf) — Reading selection.

Emily, the Patient, Bliss, Deleuze. 1997. Paper. Synthesis, Vol. 2 No. 2. University of Tennessee and Paradigm Press, Fall: 37-49.

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