Juraj Podroužek

Kempelen institute of intelligent technologies · Ethics and human values in technology

In recent years, academics and professionals witness the rise of the “ethification” of law, specifically in the area of ICT law. Ethification shall be understood as a proliferation of moral principles and moral values in the legal discourse within the areas of research, innovation governance, or directly enforceable rules in the industry. Although...

Fact-checkers are often hampered by the sheer amount of online content that needs to be fact-checked. NLP can help them by retrieving already existing fact-checks relevant to the content being investigated. This paper introduces a new multilingual dataset -- MultiClaim -- for previously fact-checked claim retrieval. We collected 28k posts in 27 lan...

In this paper, we present results of an auditing study performed over YouTube aimed at investigating how fast a user can get into a misinformation filter bubble, but also what it takes to “burst the bubble”, i.e., revert the bubble enclosure. We employ a sock puppet audit methodology, in which pre-programmed agents (acting as YouTube users) delve i...

In this paper, we present results of an auditing study performed over YouTube aimed at investigating how fast a user can get into a misinformation filter bubble, but also what it takes to "burst the bubble", i.e., revert the bubble enclosure. We employ a sock puppet audit methodology, in which pre-programmed agents (acting as YouTube users) delve i...

This position paper contributes to the discussion on the utilisation of Assessment list for Trustworthy AI (ALTAI). Building on our own empirical experience stemming from cooperation with various AI teams and organisations, we suggest that ALTAI is suitable to be used as the core of the ethics-based assessment process. However, there are several ar...

This paper contributes to the discussion on effective regulation of facial recognition technologies (FRT) in public spaces. In response to the growing universalization of FRT in the United States and Europe as merely intrusive technology, we propose to distinguish scenarios in which the ethical and social risks of using FRT are unattainable from ot...

In this paper, we describe a black-box sockpuppeting audit which we carried out to investigate the creation and bursting dynamics of misinformation filter bubbles on YouTube. Pre-programmed agents acting as YouTube users stimulated YouTube's recommender systems: they first watched a series of misinformation promoting videos (bubble creation) and th...

The negative effects of misinformation filter bubbles in adaptive systems have been known to researchers for some time. Several studies investigated, most prominently on YouTube, how fast a user can get into a misinformation filter bubble simply by selecting wrong choices from the items offered. Yet, no studies so far have investigated what it take...

We appreciate the value of the public debate on societal impact of artificial intel-ligence in general. Our aim is to contribute to the public debate and present ourideas on the proposed regulation of artificial intelligence, which was introducedby the European Commission on April 21, 2021. In this paper we present ourstance on specific areas of th...

The aim of this text is to introduce ethics of information and communication technologies (ICT) and to justify its necessity as a separate field of applied ethics. In the first part we introduce various types of ICT - artificial intelligence, robotics, big data analysis and virtual reality. We identify seemingly novel ethical issues that are relate...

The paper proves that the usually mentioned conditions for Moore’s paradox (i.e. factivity and consistency with positive introspection) are not necessary for MP. We demonstrate this by defining the minimal logics of MP and by proving that the logic of both versions of MP (omissive and comissive) KM is a proper subset of both T and D4. Moreover, we...

The aim of the paper is to sketch some solutions that arose along the work on Logic of Strict Processes (LSP). Three main topics are discussed: (a) negation based on implication constructed in intuitionistic fashion; (b) satisfiability in multimodal contexts and (c) a proposal of a first order semantics for Dynamic Logic of Strict Processes (DLSP)....

The aim of the paper is to analyze different approaches to anaphora with restricted quantifiers. An important point is distinguishing the anaphoric process, which is in fact structured, from the outcomes of that process. Requirements which we put on anaphora (referential dependence and extensional identity of semantic values of antecedent and anaph...