Following the rise of deep learning, the potential ethical and societal implications of AI development and use have also become a hot research topic and a pressing issue on the agendas of policy makers. Since computer vision is a subfield of AI, the ethics of computer vision can also be treated as a subfield of AI ethics. The goal of Rosalie’s Ph.D. research was to explore the ethical and societal impact of computer vision. To address the ethics of computer vision, Rosalie developed a new approach to AI ethics, which she called “a critical approach to AI ethics”. This critical approach entailed analyzing the power dynamics involved in AI development and use. The main goal of this approach, and of Rosalie’s thesis, was to determine the variety of ways in which computer vision (potentially) affects human autonomy and emancipatory progress in society. After all, technological progress is not real progress if it does not empower people and support their autonomy. In her thesis, Rosalie offers a general overview of the different ways in which computer vision tools could harm human autonomy and emancipatory progress. However, she also discusses some specific topics in-depth. One such topic is impact of cameras on people’s behavior, norms, and identity Computer Vision News 22 Congrats, Doctor Rosalie! Rosalie Waelen is a philosopher and applied ethicist, who recently completed her doctoral studies on the ethics of computer vision, at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. The title of her thesis was “The power of computer vision. A critical analysis”. Rosalie will continue doing research on the ethical and societal implications of AI, as a postdoctoral researcher at the Sustainable AI Lab of the University of Bonn in Germany. Congrats, Doctor Rosalie!
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