Experimental ethics and observational data

April 14, 2011 — February 11, 2022

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Challenge trials, ethics approvals, and surveillance.

1 Overt experimental ethics

TBD

2 Pub test experimental ethics

  • The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics:

    The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics says that when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it. At the very least, you are to blame for not doing more. Even if you don’t make the problem worse, even if you make it slightly better, the ethical burden of the problem falls on you as soon as you observe it. In particular, if you interact with a problem and benefit from it, you are a complete monster.

3 Observational data and surveillance

4 Incoming

Knit these together with observational data to argue that experimental ethics imply the demand for a pervasive surveillance state.

5 References

Athey. 2017. Beyond Prediction: Using Big Data for Policy Problems.” Science.
Cooper, and Abrams. 2021. Emergent Unfairness in Algorithmic Fairness-Accuracy Trade-Off Research.” In Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society.
Dreger. 2015. Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science.
Killingley, Mann, Kalinova, et al. 2022. Safety, Tolerability and Viral Kinetics During SARS-CoV-2 Human Challenge.”