Jessica Woodgate
About
I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Bristol, researching AI ethics. Residing in the intersection of AI and philosophy, my main research interests lie in the implementation of normative ethics in multiagent systems. I graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Sheffield in 2018. During this time, my growing interest in AI ethics sparked a personal research project into how I could contribute skills learnt during my undergraduate degree to the field. This lead me to the Computer Science (conversion) M.Sc. at the University of Bristol, where I undertook a project related to the application of philosophical principles to multiple user social dilemmas. My research continues in this direction, as Ph.D. student at the University of Bristol under the supervision of Dr. Nirav Ajmeri and Dr. Paul Marshall.
Currently, I am helping to organise a seminar series on Citizen-Centric AI Systems, where we come together to discuss the role and challenges of citizen-centric AI. Sign up to the mailing list or submit a talk proposal.
I am also an organiser of Data Ethics Club, a "journal" club about doing data science ethically. Sign up to the mailing list or read our write ups.
See my CV or contact me.
News
2024
- November: authored data ethics club write up Data Ethics Club: Creating a collaborative space to discuss data ethics, a more relaxed session where we talked about what brings us to Data Ethics Club
- November: presented a talk "Generated Science: How AI is Impacting Academic Publishing" to the Knowledge Exchange Group
- October: authored data ethics club write up Transparent communication of evidence does not undermine public trust in evidence, discussing the effects of different communication methods on perception and trust
- October: authored data ethics club write up Time to reality check the promises of machine learning-powered precision medicine, looking at the role of ML in precision medicine
- September: authored data ethics club write up ChatGPT is Bullsh*t, exploring the language used to talk about falsehoods generated by LLMs
- August: authored data ethics club write up Data Feminism, summarising the discussions from the Data Feminism Book Club over summer 2024
- June: authored data ethics club write up How AI could save or destroy education, using the example of Khanacademy's AI tutor to explore the relationship between generative AI and education
- May: survey at ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) Macro Ethics Principles for Responsible AI Systems: Taxonomy and Directions
- May: authored data ethics club write up The Myers-Briggs Test Has Been Debunked Time and Again. Why Do Companies Still Use It?, examining the use of personality tests in employment practices
- May: authored data ethics club write up Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop, exploring the hidden human labour that goes into the AI industry
- May: authored data ethics club write up Artificial Intelligence Act, discussing the parliamentary approval of the EU AI Act
- March: authored data ethics club write up Decolonial AI, applying colonial and decolonial theory to AI
- March: authored data ethics club write up Values in AI Image Systems, using the examples of DignifAI and Gemini AI to evaluate how we imbue values in AI
- February: authored data ethics club write up Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find, examiming the effects of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) on search engine quality
- February: authored data ethics club write up The Ethics of Chatbots, where we discussed implications of chatbots in the realm of mental health and interpersonal relationships
- January: authored data ethics club write up Duolingo cuts workers as it relies more on AI, exploring job automation and usage of AI for translation
- January: authored data ethics club write up New Years Resolutions 2024, revisiting the resolutions from 2023 and discussing what we would like to achieve in 2024
2023
- December: authored data ethics club write up Anatomy of an AI-Powered Malicious Social Botnet, where we analysed the future of generative AI and bots on social media
- November: authored data ethics club write up Data Ethics Checklist at Seattle Children’s Hospital, which presents a checklist tool developed to assist healthcare workers in ethical reflection
- November: authored data ethics club write up Dimensions of Data Labour, discussing a paper which proposes actionable guidelines for addressing challenges associated with data and power inequalities
- November: moderated Citizen-Centric AI Systems (CCAIS) Multisector Games in Cities, presented by Fernando P. Santos
- October: authored data ethics club write up Sharing Children's Data Online, discussing an article about parents' attitudes to sharing data about their children online
- October: authored data ethics club write up Is Retail the Next Sector to be Hit by a Privacy Scandal?, exploring the digitalisation of the retail industry and associated privacy concerns
- October: moderated Citizen-Centric AI Systems (CCAIS) Conversational Agents for Digital Inclusion, presented by Rafik Hadfi
- September: moderated Citizen-Centric AI Systems (CCAIS) introductory seminar, presenting the different research groups associated with CCAIS
- August: extended abstract at AIES Ethical Principles for Reasoning about Value Preferences
- June: authored data ethics club write up Data Week 2023 Special: The Real Danger of ChatGPT, discussing different risks associated with LLMs and the influence this may have on human creativity
- May: authored data ethics club write up Owen Jones on the Classification of Abuse Online, analysing a BBC study about online toxicity
- May: authored data ethics club write up Designing Accountable Systems, evaluating how we can define accountability and how it applies to different use cases
- May: authored data ethics club write up Queer in AI: A Case Study in Community-Led Participatory AI, looking at how AI exacerbates queer marginalisation
- April: joint author of data ethics club write up Social Biases in NLP Models as Barriers for Persons with Disabilities, examining disability, language, and automation
- March: joint author of data ethics club write up The Tech We Won't Build, exploring moral disagreement and accountability in the workplace