Anastasia Siapka

Είμαι Υποψήφια Διδάκτωρ στο KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP). Προηγουμένως, ήμουν Επιστημονική Συνεργάτιδα του ιδίου Κέντρου, ερευνώντας τις ηθικές και νομικές προκλήσεις των νέων τεχνολογιών στα πλαίσια διεπιστημονικών ερευνητικών προγραμμάτων χρηματοδοτούμενων από την Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή. Η έρευνά μου επικεντρώνεται στην αλληλεπίδραση της τεχνητής νοημοσύνης με το δίκαιο και τη φιλοσοφία, κυρίως όσον αφορά το μέλλον της εργασίας, και χρηματοδοτείται από το Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO).

Έχω σπουδάσει νομικά, δημόσια διοίκηση και φιλοσοφία στο Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης, το Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο και το King’s College London αντίστοιχα. Παράλληλα με την ακαδημαϊκή και επαγγελματική μου πορεία, έχω ασχοληθεί επί σειρά ετών με την ισότητα και τη συμπερίληψη στον χώρο της τεχνολογίας.

επιλεγμένες δημοσιεύσεις

2023

Towards a post-work "utopia": a political and legal exercise in imagination

Anastasia Siapka

In Shaping Utopia Through Law – How the law does (not) provide an answer to societal challenges , Jun 2023

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AI-driven Automation as a Pre-condition for Eudaimonia

Anastasia Siapka

In Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society , Aug 2023

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The debate surrounding the ‘future of work’ is saturated with alarmist warnings about the loss of work as an intrinsically valuable activity. Instead, the present doctoral research approaches this debate from the perspective of human flourishing (eudaimonia). It articulates a neo-Aristotelian interpretation according to which the prospect of mass AI-driven automation, far from being a threat, is rather desirable insofar as it facilitates humans’ flourishing and, subsequently, their engagement in leisure. Drawing on virtue jurisprudence, this research further explores what this desirability may imply for the current legal order.

2022

Towards a Feminist Metaethics of AI

Anastasia Siapka

In Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society , Jul 2022

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The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked an overwhelming number of AI ethics guidelines, boards and codes of conduct. These outputs primarily analyse competing theories, principles and values for AI development and deployment. However, as a series of recent problematic incidents about AI ethics/ethicists demonstrate, this orientation is insufficient. Before proceeding to evaluate other professions, AI ethicists should critically evaluate their own; yet, such an evaluation should be more explicitly and systematically undertaken in the literature. I argue that these insufficiencies could be mitigated by developing a research agenda for a feminist metaethics of AI. Contrary to traditional metaethics, which reflects on the nature of morality and moral judgements in a non-normative way, feminist metaethics expands its scope to ask not only what ethics is but also what our engagement with it should be like. Applying this perspective to the context of AI, I suggest that a feminist metaethics of AI would examine: (i) the continuity between theory and action in AI ethics; (ii) the real-life effects of AI ethics; (iii) the role and profile of those involved in AI ethics; and (iv) the effects of AI on power relations through methods that pay attention to context, emotions and narrative.

2021

Digital Tools and COVID-19: Shifting Public–Private Boundaries

Anton Vedder , Anastasia Siapka, and 2 more authors

Philosophical Papers, Sep 2021

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Bleeding data: the case of fertility and menstruation tracking apps

Anastasia Siapka, and Elisabetta Biasin

Internet Policy Review, Dec 2021

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Apps to help track fertility and menstruation proliferate, and so does the commodification of user data. How is this tendency viewed in light of the GDPR and the UCPD?