dr. D. Babushkina PhD (Dina)

My primary research interest is in philosophy of artificial intelligence and “smart” robotics. My approach combines ethics, epistemology, psychology, philosophical anthropology, and computer science. One of the core elements of my approach can be called "ethics-through-epistemology", a claim that for the solution of ethical problems with AI, we must understand how AI transforms information and how its outcomes relate to knowledge.

More specifically, I am looking into questions about:

• the interaction between AI and humans, esp. AI as a player in interpersonal relationships; 
• the ways in which personhood and agency change due to our interactions with AI and data-mining technologies (incl. digital twins, digital identity, hybridization of personhood and cognitive agency, esp. the ways in which AI is integrated into decision making processes);
• the ways in which life experiences (e.g. interpersonal relationships, phenomenology of living environments) transform as a result of the integration of artificial agents as mediators of such experiences.

Domain-wise, I primarily focus on AI and robotics in healthcare & social care, psychotherapy (esp. patent’s perspective) and companionship, and AI for cities (esp. citizens’ perspective & lived experiences).

I am the coordinator of the UT's Ethics and Epistemology of AI Initiative (EthEpi of AI). Feel free to get in touch!

Publications

• Business Information Technology
• International Business Administration

• Computer Science

• 201200039 - Smart rules & regimes
• 201300088 - Master's Thesis PSTS
• 201300089 - Master's Thesis PSTS
• 201700342 - Internship TCS

• 201300088 - Master's Thesis PSTS
• 202001049 - Design Project Core
• 202001051 - Research Project Core
• 202100154 - The Sustainability Game
• 202200010 - Ethics and epistemology of AI

Organisations

• Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), Philosophy (WIJSB)