Hubert Etienne

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This article discusses the dangers of the Moral Machine (MM) experiment, alerting against both its uses for normative ends and the whole approach it is built upon to address ethical issues. It explores additional methodological limits of the experiment on top of those already identified by its authors; exhibits the dangers of computational moral sy...

To cite this article: Hubert Etienne (2021): The dark side of the 'Moral Machine' and the fallacy of computational ethical decision-making for autonomous vehicles, Law, Innovation and Technology, ABSTRACT This paper reveals the dangers of the Moral Machine experiment, alerting against both its uses for normative ends, and the whole approach it is b...

Trust has become a first-order concept in AI, urging experts to call for measures ensuring AI is ‘trustworthy’. The danger of untrustworthy AI often culminates with Deepfake, perceived as unprecedented threat for democracies and online trust, through its potential to back sophisticated disinformation campaigns. Little work has, however, been dedica...

The Covid-19 crisis exposed the world to multidimensional challenges, which not only include the management of the pandemic by healthcare authorities, but also the moral dilemmas faced by practitioners in medical structures, the preservation of trust in information undermined by the spread of false news, the upkeep of human interactions during lock...

We combine philosophical theories with quantitative analyses of online data to propose a sophisticated approach to social media influencers. Identifying influencers as communication systems emerging from a dialectic interactional process between content creators and in-development audiences, we define them mainly using the composition of their audi...

In the past years, many studies have surveyed people’s intuitions about moral dilemmas involving autonomous vehicles (AVs). One widespread rationale for this line of research has been that understanding people’s attitudes about such dilemmas might help increase the pace of the adoption of autonomous vehicles—a goal that certain researchers consider...

We combine philosophical theories with quantitative analyses of online data to propose a sophisticated approach to social media influencers. Identifying influencers as communication systems emerging from a dialectic interactional process between content creators and in-development audiences, we define them mainly using the composition of their audi...

Social media users who report content are key allies in managing online misinformation; however, no research has yet been conducted to understand the trends underlying their activity. We suggest an original approach to studying misinformation: examining it from the reporting users’ perspective both at the content level and comparatively across regi...

In recent years, researchers have emphasized the relevance of data about commonsense moral judgments for ethical decision-making, notably in the context of debates about autonomous vehicles (AVs). As such, the results of empirical studies such as the Machine Moral Experiment have been influential in debates about the ethics of AVs and some research...

When combined with an appropriate level of human judgement, machine learning applications were crucial resources insupporting decision-making in the context of the Covid-19 crisis, resulting in more efficient and better-informed responses to ethicalissues. This paper focusses on four social dimensions (bioethical, political, psychological, and econ...

Autonomous vehicle moral dilemmas matter less for the particular outcomes of potential accidents than for their role in defining the values of the society we wish to live in. Different approaches have been suggested to determine the ethical settings that autonomous vehicles should be implemented in and identify the legitimate agents for making such...

We propose a comparative analysis of the AI ethical guidelines endorsed by China (from the Chinese National New Generation Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional Committee) and by the EU (from the European High-level Expert Group on AI). We show that behind an apparent likeness in the concepts mobilized, the two documents largely differ in...

"L’impôt européen au défi du consentement fiscal", postface of Jean-François Boudet, Droit fiscal européen comparé, Bruylant, Bruxelles, in press (2021). Also published in Revue générale du droit, Dec. 2021.

Companies must embrace digital transformation and adapt to new consumption behaviours to survive. This calls for a rethinking of their business models while facing the risk of disruption, handling activist consumers and their expectations, and adopting daring transdisciplinary approaches to tackle business complexity. To do this, three counterintui...

Réflexion d'un lecteur de Girard sur la crise du Covid-19

Cette analyse de la rationalité des politiques fiscales permet d’appréhender les enjeux politiques du prélèvement à la source et de la fiscalité incitative pour comprendre le phénomène de la défiance généralisée dont la crise des « gilets jaunes » est sympatomatique.

La fiscalité moderne est en crise. Mise au défi par l’effacement des frontières et la concurrence interétatique, elle se crispe et s’enferme dans l’aporie de ses contradictions plutôt que de songer aux alternatives de son renouveau paradigmatique. Sur les traces du « don démocratique » proposé par Sloterdijk, il s’agit ici de prendre au sérieux la...

Proposition de charte éthique à l’usage du législateur pour encadrer l’utilisation des alorithmiques dans le cadre de missions de service public à partir des grands principes du droit français. Co-auteurs: Léa Longo, Adèle Paris, Benhamin Chiche, Damien Laurent, Hubert Etienne, Philip Polack, Rosalie Bourgeois de Boynes https://medium.com/@galate...

Pensée comme une rupture avec la fiscalité féodale, dont la mainmorte incarnait la hiérarchie ontologique caractéristique de l’Ancien Régime, la théorie moderne de l’impôt se fonde sur celle du libre consentement comme garantie de la propriété privée et réservoir de légitimité pour l’Etat démocratique. Sans jamais avoir été formellement remise en q...