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27 September, 2022

Can AI be used to avoid discrimination during recruitment?

More and more businesses use AI – artificial intelligence – in recruitment. But what happens when they do so? The research project Can the implementation of artificial intelligence in the recruitment p, led by sociologist Moa Bursell, can give us some answers.

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29 November, 2023

The ethical void: a critical analysis of commissioned expert reports on Swedish healthcare governance

Journal of Health Organization and Management Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute knowledge on ethical issues and reasoning in expertreports concerning healthcare governance, cDesign/methodology/approach – An in-depth analysis of ethical issues and reasoning in 36 commissionedexpert reports was performed. Twenty-seven interviews with commissioners and producers of the reports werealso carried out and analysed.Findings – Some ethical issues were identified in the reports. But ethical reasoning was rarely evident. Themeaning of ethical concepts could be devalued and changed over time and thereby deviate from statutoryethical goals and values. Several ethical issues of great concern for the Swedish public healthcare were alsoabsent.Practical implications – The commissioner of expert reports needs to ensure that comprehensive ethicalconsiderations and ethical analysis are integrated in the expert reports.Originality/value – Based on an extensive data material this paper reveals an ethical void in expert reportson healthcare governance. By avoiding ethical issues there is a risk that the expert reports could bring aboutreforms and control models that have ethically undesirable consequences for people and society.

Type of publication: Journal articles | Falkenström, Erica , & Anna T. Höglund
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10 March, 2016

Injunctive Versus Functional Inferences From Descriptive Norms Comment on Gelfand and Harrington

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 0022022115605387. Abstract Cialdini has argued that whereas injunctive norms motivate behavior by their promise of social sanctions, descriptive norms motivate beha

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , Strimling, Pontus
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01 September, 2017

Counterfactual Skepticism and Multidimensional Semantics

Erkenntnis, pp. 1-24. Abstract It has recently been argued that indeterminacy and indeterminism make most ordinary counterfactuals false. I argue that a plausible way to avoid such counterfactual skepti

Type of publication: Journal articles | Stefánsson, H. Orri
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22 January, 2021

Spectrum arguments, parity and persistency

in: Theoria (2020) Volume 86:4 AbstractThis article shows that introducing the positive comparative relation parity only helps one block so‐called “Spectrum Arguments” in order to avoid their unsavoury

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders
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03 October, 2008

Low Fertility and Long Run Growth in an Economy with a Large Public Sector

An important mechanism in low fertility countries is social interactions and its effects on ideal family size; as this is hard to capture in formal models, this paper uses an agent based simulation mo

Type of publication: Working papers | Jovan Zamac, Daniel Hallberg and Thomas Lindh
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21 February, 2020
Karim Jebari: The social impact of AI - Inspirations on what to explore and how to avoid the hype

Karim Jebari: The social impact of AI - Inspirations on what to explore and how to aviod the hype

Karim Jebari, PhD in Philosophy and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies talks about some tools for finding interesting things to study in the field of the social impact of artificial intelligence. And also, advice on how to avoid some of the hype surrounding AI. From the workshop “Why we need research on AI impact now”, that was held at the Institute for Futures Studies on January 21st 2020.

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22 November, 2022

Rule-consequentialism, procreative freedom, and future generations

Ratio Abstract In this paper I analyse how procreative freedom poses a challenge for rule-consequentialism. First, I reconstruct the rule-consequentialist case for procreative freedom. Second, I argue t

Type of publication: Journal articles | Mosquera, Julia
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17 March, 2021

Population axiology and the possibility of a fourth category of absolute value

i:  Economics and Philosophy Vol. 36:1 AbstractCritical-Range Utilitarianism is a variant of Total Utilitarianism which can avoid both the Repugnant Conclusion and the Sadistic Conclusion in population

Type of publication: Journal articles | Gustafsson, Johan E.
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27 February, 2025

What calibrating variable-value population ethics suggests

Economics & Philosophy Abstract Variable-Value axiologies avoid Parfit’s Repugnant Conclusion while satisfying some weak instances of the Mere Addition principle. We apply calibration methods to two

Type of publication: Journal articles | Spears, Dean , Stefánsson, H. Orri
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