Tricia Griffin
@triciagriffin.bsky.social
Technology/AI ethics in professional practice. PHD, MPH, M.Bioethics, MFA.
My latest, a linguistic analysis of AI ethics guidelines. Roughly 7,000 statements coded from 87 ethics guidelines to determine how their authors conceive of ethical agency: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... #aiethics #linguistics #ethics
Hidden Agents, Explicit Obligations: A Linguistic Analysis of AI Ethics Guidelines - Science and Engineering Ethics
Science and Engineering Ethics - Since 2013, many organizations, governments, and coalitions have issued ethics guidelines aimed at achieving ethically sound artificial intelligence (AI). The...
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October 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
My latest, a linguistic analysis of AI ethics guidelines. Roughly 7,000 statements coded from 87 ethics guidelines to determine how their authors conceive of ethical agency: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... #aiethics #linguistics #ethics
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We're organizing an event on technological refusal in Maastricht, Feb '26 and I'm super excited about it. Details below 👇 Deadline for contributions Oct 31st. Come join us!
www.aanmelder.nl/techrefusal
www.aanmelder.nl/techrefusal
‘No & ...’ : A Forum on Technological Refusal - Home
www.aanmelder.nl
October 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
We're organizing an event on technological refusal in Maastricht, Feb '26 and I'm super excited about it. Details below 👇 Deadline for contributions Oct 31st. Come join us!
www.aanmelder.nl/techrefusal
www.aanmelder.nl/techrefusal
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
I have an article coming out soon in Science & Engineering Ethics which shows how ethics guidelines suppress and background ethical agents. One of the tactics is instrumentalization, which gives agency to AI and hides the true agents. Will update with link to the article once it is published.
Seeking citations: Has anyone written on how "AI" systems can be used to shift/shirk accountability? This seems like an obvious through line in a lot of use cases (esp decision making by govt agencies & military applications), but I'd love to see a treatment tying these together.
September 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I have an article coming out soon in Science & Engineering Ethics which shows how ethics guidelines suppress and background ethical agents. One of the tactics is instrumentalization, which gives agency to AI and hides the true agents. Will update with link to the article once it is published.
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numerous companies and banks have reversed course on #sustainability over the last few months. will it make a difference? probably not, because their “sustainability” programs weren’t doing anything in the first place. read my book to find out why.
BOOK THREAD
in february, i published my book UNSUSTAINABLE: MEASUREMENT, REPORTING, AND THE LIMITS OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY with #NYUPress @capacademicbooks.bsky.social
#greensky #anthrosky #geosky #newbook #sustainability #politicalecology
nyupress.org/978147982201...
in february, i published my book UNSUSTAINABLE: MEASUREMENT, REPORTING, AND THE LIMITS OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY with #NYUPress @capacademicbooks.bsky.social
#greensky #anthrosky #geosky #newbook #sustainability #politicalecology
nyupress.org/978147982201...
Unsustainable
A behind-the-scenes look at how corporate and financial actors enforce a business-friendly approach to global sustainabilityIn recent years, companies have f...
nyupress.org
August 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
numerous companies and banks have reversed course on #sustainability over the last few months. will it make a difference? probably not, because their “sustainability” programs weren’t doing anything in the first place. read my book to find out why.
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things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
August 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
I had a good time doing this interview and the result is a good window into my research. www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/ais-mor...
AI's moral architects: neither demi-gods nor code monkeys
www.maastrichtuniversity.nl
July 31, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I had a good time doing this interview and the result is a good window into my research. www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/ais-mor...
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I love the pageantry and warmth of a PhD defense (viva) in the Netherlands, with family, friends and supervisors all participating, robes and hats and shiny necklaces and staff-thumping, a laudatio, etc.
A UK viva is a dry piece of bread by comparison.
A UK viva is a dry piece of bread by comparison.
June 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Pleased to share my latest paper, in which I argue that bypassing AI developers' moral agency when we discuss #aiethics is morally unjustifiable. #ethics #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #datascience #professionalethics link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Excuses, excuses: moral agency and the professional identity of AI developers - AI & SOCIETY
Artificial intelligence developers, machine learning engineers, and data scientists occupy a contradictory role in the modern marketplace. While they are central to the business and science of AI, the...
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May 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Pleased to share my latest paper, in which I argue that bypassing AI developers' moral agency when we discuss #aiethics is morally unjustifiable. #ethics #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #datascience #professionalethics link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Saddened to learn of the death of Alasdair MacIntyre. His work has ben a huge influence in my own academic journey. It's virtues all the way down, folks.
May 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Saddened to learn of the death of Alasdair MacIntyre. His work has ben a huge influence in my own academic journey. It's virtues all the way down, folks.
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Hear me out: you take the hard-won products of journalism, science, art and creativity, you use vast amounts of electrical energy during a time-sensitive energy transition to re-jumble the words and sentences, and then you present the outputs as being better and more trustworthy than the original
January 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Hear me out: you take the hard-won products of journalism, science, art and creativity, you use vast amounts of electrical energy during a time-sensitive energy transition to re-jumble the words and sentences, and then you present the outputs as being better and more trustworthy than the original
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of my many gripes about my MPA program, #1 is the extent to which it went completely unacknowledged that policing and prisions (and the military) are never subject to the same frameworks of cost efficiency that social services are
December 26, 2024 at 8:52 PM
of my many gripes about my MPA program, #1 is the extent to which it went completely unacknowledged that policing and prisions (and the military) are never subject to the same frameworks of cost efficiency that social services are
The commercial capture of education is the point.
Lmao what even is the point
December 9, 2024 at 3:25 PM
The commercial capture of education is the point.
Populists always claim they are going to run the government like a business. It's always a grift.
December 5, 2024 at 12:46 AM
Populists always claim they are going to run the government like a business. It's always a grift.
Taking public transport in the Netherlands is like being on another planet than San Francisco. Dude out here cleaning the bus stop. Like, with water and a scrubber and squeegee.
October 3, 2024 at 9:15 AM
Taking public transport in the Netherlands is like being on another planet than San Francisco. Dude out here cleaning the bus stop. Like, with water and a scrubber and squeegee.
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Men will invent a tank full of algae before g̶o̶i̶n̶g̶ t̶o̶ t̶h̶e̶r̶a̶p̶y̶ planting trees.
September 29, 2024 at 8:44 AM
Men will invent a tank full of algae before g̶o̶i̶n̶g̶ t̶o̶ t̶h̶e̶r̶a̶p̶y̶ planting trees.
I'm just going to leave this here:
September 16, 2024 at 12:02 PM
I'm just going to leave this here:
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BOOK THREAD
in february, i published my book UNSUSTAINABLE: MEASUREMENT, REPORTING, AND THE LIMITS OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY with #NYUPress @capacademicbooks.bsky.social
#greensky #anthrosky #geosky #newbook #sustainability #politicalecology
nyupress.org/978147982201...
in february, i published my book UNSUSTAINABLE: MEASUREMENT, REPORTING, AND THE LIMITS OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY with #NYUPress @capacademicbooks.bsky.social
#greensky #anthrosky #geosky #newbook #sustainability #politicalecology
nyupress.org/978147982201...
Unsustainable
A behind-the-scenes look at how corporate and financial actors enforce a business-friendly approach to global sustainabilityIn recent years, companies have f...
nyupress.org
August 13, 2024 at 10:18 AM
BOOK THREAD
in february, i published my book UNSUSTAINABLE: MEASUREMENT, REPORTING, AND THE LIMITS OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY with #NYUPress @capacademicbooks.bsky.social
#greensky #anthrosky #geosky #newbook #sustainability #politicalecology
nyupress.org/978147982201...
in february, i published my book UNSUSTAINABLE: MEASUREMENT, REPORTING, AND THE LIMITS OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY with #NYUPress @capacademicbooks.bsky.social
#greensky #anthrosky #geosky #newbook #sustainability #politicalecology
nyupress.org/978147982201...
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There should be a core undergraduate course called 'Useless Things' where you just enjoy stuff that cannot possibly be part of a career track.
September 8, 2024 at 2:21 AM
There should be a core undergraduate course called 'Useless Things' where you just enjoy stuff that cannot possibly be part of a career track.
This is...not wrong.
California politics is basically:
Let’s teach the homeless to code! 😊
Let’s make AI surveillance gay! 🌈
Let’s decolonize drone warfare supply chains! ✨
Let’s teach the homeless to code! 😊
Let’s make AI surveillance gay! 🌈
Let’s decolonize drone warfare supply chains! ✨
September 6, 2024 at 4:22 AM
This is...not wrong.
Was told that I should be using AI tools (i.e., LLMs) because men are using them in their work, and women aren't doing so in as high number. This bandwagon fallacy is so tired.
September 4, 2024 at 6:31 AM
Was told that I should be using AI tools (i.e., LLMs) because men are using them in their work, and women aren't doing so in as high number. This bandwagon fallacy is so tired.
It's more insidious, more cynical, than destroying education. They want to capture the market.
let them destroy entire education systems at the fastest rate and in the most destructive way possible news.sky.com/story/uks-fi...
UK's first 'teacherless' AI classroom set to open in London
A private school in London is opening the UK's first classroom taught by artificial intelligence instead of human teachers. They say the technology allows for precise, bespoke learning while critics a...
news.sky.com
September 2, 2024 at 4:53 AM
It's more insidious, more cynical, than destroying education. They want to capture the market.
The back-and-forth between ethicists and computer scientists is so common it's becoming cliché. Ethicists don't know how to code; coders don't know ethics. It's time to start bridging this divide in a more relational way. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...
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August 16, 2024 at 8:43 AM
The back-and-forth between ethicists and computer scientists is so common it's becoming cliché. Ethicists don't know how to code; coders don't know ethics. It's time to start bridging this divide in a more relational way. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...
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They do though. They _all_ know how to barricade themselves because school shooter drills were what the cops recommended instead of literally any kind of law enforcement that might prevent school shootings.
May 1, 2024 at 6:56 PM
They do though. They _all_ know how to barricade themselves because school shooter drills were what the cops recommended instead of literally any kind of law enforcement that might prevent school shootings.