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Alice Huang is an Assistant Professor and the Duncanson Chair in Ethics and Technology at Western University, jointly appointed in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Computer Science. She is also a faculty affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology & Society. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and earned her PhD from the University of Toronto.
Her research lies at the intersection of AI ethics, formal social epistemology, and philosophy of science. She investigates ethical trade-offs in machine learning, the value of diversity, misinformation, fairness, and polarization using formal and computational models. Her work critically engages with AI research to make ethical guidance actionable for practitioners.
Her recent publications focus on diversity modeling, scientific credibility, and normative decision frameworks. These articles reflect a strong interdisciplinary trend combining philosophy, computer science, and social theory to address pressing technological and societal challenges.
- Duncanson Chair in Ethics and Technology
She actively contributes to integrating ethics into computer science education, having developed curriculum content and taught courses such as Ethical Issues in Big Data and Persons, Minds and Bodies. She advises on ethical reasoning in technical contexts and has secured research affiliations with leading institutes. Her work includes multiple ongoing projects on gaslighting, scientific rewards, interpretability in AI, and technological hype.
Alice Huang is a key figure in the growing field of technology ethics, combining rigorous philosophical analysis with practical applications in AI and data science. She collaborates across disciplines and institutions, contributing to both theoretical advancements and real-world ethical frameworks.
