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James Brusseau
164 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
jbrusseau@pace.edu
jamesbrusseau.net

Pace University, NYC
Philosophy Department
1 Pace Plaza
New York, NY 10038

Areas

History of Philosophy, Philosophy & Ethics of AI

Career

University of Trento, Italy, Information Engineering and Computer Science, 2020-

Pace University, New York City, Philosophy, 2010-

California State University, Los Angeles, Philosophy, 2005-08

Mexican National University, Mexico City, Philosophy and Comparative Literature, 1994-2004.

Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D., Philosophy, 1993.

Université de Nice, France, 1991.

Vassar College, B.A., philosophy, 1987.

Books

Decadence of the French Nietzsche, Rowman and Littlefield, 2006: Full text.

Isolated Experiences: Gilles Deleuze and the Solitudes of Reversed Platonism, State University of New York, 1997: Full text.

Dignity, Pleasures, Vulgarity: Philosophy and Animal Rights, Overflow, 2017

Ethics Workshop (Textbook, Eds 1,2), Boston Academic Publishing/FWK, 2015 -18

Business Ethics Workshop (Textbook, Eds 1,2,3), Boston Academic Publishing/FWK, 2011-18

Published/Conference Papers, Selected

The Freedom Recommendation. 2025. Roundtable hosted by Alma Mater Artificial Intelligence Center, Alma Mater Europaea University, Austria, February 8, 2025. Deck.

A Case Study in Acceleration AI Ethics: The TELUS GenAI Conversational Agent. 2025. Forthcoming. PrePrint

AI Recommendation Algorithms and Human Freedom: Perspectives from Tech and Philosophy.. 2024. Roundtable hosted by Pace University, Seidenberg School of Computer Science, The Pace University AI Lab, and Dyson College, October 9, 2024, New York, NY, USA. Video.

Equitable AI Audits: evaluating the evaluators in today’s world. 2024. 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2024), October 1–4, 2024, Pretoria, South Africa. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3680127.3680140. Text

An Ethics Framework for the Internet of Musical Things, 2024, IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society. DOI: 10.1109/TTS.2024.3398423. Text.

Creativity in the times of Art, Reproduction, and Generation , 2024, Artificial Creativity Conference, Pegaso University, Milan. Forthcoming.

Inclusion Ethics in AI: Use Cases in African Fashion , 2024, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Spring Symposium Series, Stanford University, Vol. 3 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaaiss.v3i1.31266 Text.

Mapping AI avant-gardes in time: posthumanism, transhumanism, genhumanism, 2023, Discover Artificial Intelligence. DOI: 10.1007/s44163-023-00080-6. Text.

How to Accelerate Ethics for Innovation and Against Precaution in Generative AI , 2023, International Association of Computing and Philosophy Conference (IACAP), Prague. Text Deck

Acceleration AI Ethics, the Debate between Innovation and Safety, and Stability AI’s Diffusion versus OpenAI’s Dall-E , 2023, International Conference on Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE). Text Video Conference full text

Acceleration is the Right Ethics for Web3, 2023, Open Data and Infrastructure Summit 2023. Video

Ethics Interview for Web3, 2023, Open Data and Infrastructure Summit 2023. Video

Due Diligence in AI: the path towards the AI Act into force, 2023, Ital-IA, Pisa, Italy. Video 1 Video 2 Video 3

Acceleration is the right ethics for web3 and decentralized communities, Open Data and Infrastructure Summit 2023, Virtual. Video 1 Video 2

The Ethics Labyrinth of Mimetic AI Healthcare, 2022, Informa AI Summit, New York City. Deck

Assessing Trustworthy AI in times of COVID-19. Deep Learning for predicting a multi-regional score conveying the degree of lung compromise in COVID-19 patients, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society. DOI:10.1109/TTS.2022.3195114.

From the Ground Truth Up: Doing AI Ethics from Practice to Principles, 2022, AI and Society. DOI: 10.1007/s00146-021-01336-4. PrePrint. Discussion.

Why automatic AI ethics evaluations are coming, and how they will work, with Giovana Meloni Craveiro, 2022, Journal of AI, Robotics & Workplace Automation, 1.4. Henry Stewart Publications. Text.

The AI Human Condition, 2022, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy. Presentation. Video.

What Does it Mean to be a Digital Nomad? 2022, Turkish Policy Quarterly, Vol 20, No. 4. Text.

Co-Design of a Trustworthy AI System in Healthcare: Deep Learning Based Skin Lesion Classifier. 2021. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, vol 3. DOI:10.3389/fhumd.2021.688152

New Healthcare Ethics to Manage the Potential of Al, 2021, Informa AI Summit, New York City. Deck

Building a case for decentralised AI ethics, October 18, 2021, Digital Frontiers, Observer Research Foundation. Text.

AI Ethics Decentralized and Accelerated, 28 September 2021, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Information For All conference. Program. Presentation.

Using edge cases to disentangle fairness and solidarity in AI ethics, 2021, AI and Ethics. DOI:10.1007/s43681-021-00090-z. Text.

AI Human Impact: Toward a Model for Ethical Investing in AI-Intensive Companies, 2021, Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment. DOI:10.1080/20430795.2021.1874212. PrePrint.

AI Human Impact: Updating ESG Investing for AI-Intensive Companies, 2021, 30th Annual Association for Practical and Professional Ethics International Conference (Virtual), February 25-27. Full talk.

On Assessing Trustworthy AI in Healthcare. Machine Learning as a Supportive Tool to Recognize Cardiac Arrest in Emergency Calls. 2021. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, vol 3. DOI:10.3389/fhumd.2021.673104

A Process to Assess Trustworthy AI, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 83-97, June. DOI:10.1109/TTS.2021.3066209.

What a Philosopher Learned at an AI Ethics Evaluation, 2020, AI Ethics Journal, 2020, 1(1)-4. DOI:10.47289/AIEJ20201214. Text.

AI ethics as an Investment Strategy, 2020, Global Big Data Conference, Virtual. Deck.

Euphoria Convenience, 2020, Data Science Salon, Virtual. Full talk.

How to put AI ethics into practice? AI Human Impact, 2020, AI Policy Exchange, National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Full talk

Deleuze’s Postscript on the Societies of Control Updated for Big Data and Predictive Analytics, 2020, Theoria 67 (164):1-25. DOI:10.3167/th.2020.6716401. Text.

Is no privacy the best AI privacy policy? 2020, AI Policy Exchange, June 26. National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Text.

Why the Privacy Company is the Most Important Business You've Never Heard Of, 2019, Informa AI Summit, New York City.

What is Big Data Vandalism? 2019, Global AI in Boston, Conference: Full Talk, Deck.

Against XAI, 2019, Ai4 Finance, Conference, New York City: Full Talk, Deck.

Ethics of Disintegrating Identity in the Time of Big Data, 2019, Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts: Full Talk, Deck.

What to Do When Privacy is Gone, 2019, CEPE (Computer Ethics—Philosophical Enquiry) - International Society for Ethics and Information Technology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk Virginia: DOI:10.25884/798y-hr54. Text.

Inside the Big Data Experience Machine, 2019, Ai4 R Conference, New York City: Full Talk, Deck.

Ethics of Identity in the Time of Big Data, First Monday, Vol. 24, No 5 – 6, University of Illinois at Chicago: May 2019. DOI:10.5210/fm.v24i5.9624. Text.

Ethics as Curiosity, 2019, Keynote Address, Bet Alpha Psi Business Honors, Lubin College, Pace University, New York City.

Ethics of Identity in the Time of Big Data, 2018, 25th Annual International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference, St. John's University, New York City: Text.

Social Media Data and Personal Identity, 2018, North East Popular Culture Association, Worcester State University, Worcester, MA.

Privacy, Identity and Authenticity in Big Data Reality, 2017, Third Speculative Ethics Forum, St. John's University, New York City.

How Much Writing is Enough? 2014, Derrida Today Conference, Fordham University, New York City: Text.

El trabajo sin lugar de trabajo: tecnología social y eliminación del espacio en la vida laboral, 2014, Panorama Social 17 (Spain), La Fundación de las Cajas de Ahorros, Spain, Primer Semestre.

Corporate Social Responsibility: To Yourself Be True, Journal of Global Business and Technology, 2013, Vol 9. No. 1. Global Business and Technology Association/Arcadia University: 53 – 63.

Adding Corporate Ethics to Brand Identity: Delineating What's Happening and Charting Possibilities, 2011, 18^th International Conference on Business Ethics, St John’s University, New York City.

Thinking Truth and Decadence, 2010, 43^nd Meeting North Texas Philosophical Association, Dallas, TX.

What is decadence in philosophy? How does it come between Rorty and Deleuze? 2009, 42^nd Meeting North Texas Philosophical Association, Dallas, TX. Full text.

What is Decadent Philosophy, 2005, California State University, Fullerton, Full text.

Dos relaciones entre pensamiento y verdad, 2003, Universidad de las Americas, Mexico D.F., Mexico.

What is Decadent Philosophy, 2000, Jornada Filosófica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexcio City, Full text.

Two Relations between Thinking and Truth, 1999, Trent University, Canada: Full text.

Violence and Repetition,in Phenomenological Approaches to Popular Culture, 1999, Eds. Carroll and Tafoya, (Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Press).

Emily, the Patient, Bliss, Deleuze, 1997, Synthesis, Vol. 2 No. 2. University of Tennessee and Paradigm Press, Fall: 37-49.

Cuando el critico se torna malicioso, at Simposio internacional: Tiempo, memoria y escritura (CONACYT 4333-S9406, CONACYT-CSIC, PADEP-97, 010008), 1997, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico D.F., Mexico.

La Diferencia es un verbo, 1997, Coloquio: Despues de Derrida, Universidad Anahuac, Mexico D.F., Mexico.

The Difficulty of Writing the Same Book Again: Gilles Deleuze and 'Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote', 1997, Instituto de Investigaciones Filologicas, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico D.F., Mexico.

Violence and Repetition, at Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas, Proyecto Teorias de la Interpretation (CONACYT 4333-S9406), 1996, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico D.F., Mexico.

Distance Without Measure: Deleuze and Augustine, 1994, International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Possession and Difference, 1994, Pennsylvania State University Philosophy Society, University Park, Pennsylvania.

Desire For Bataille's Images, 1993, International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Tell the Difference: Using Gilles Deleuze, 1993, Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture conference, Binghamton, New York.

Rationality Encountering Literary Materialism, 1992, International Association for Philosophy and Literature, San Francisco, California.

A Missing Boulevard in Versailles: Proust and Time, 1992, Substance, Number 68. University of Wisconsin Press: 102-110.

These Sober Pages: Augustine's Confessions,” 1991, Literature and Theology, Vol. 5 No. 2. Oxford University Press: 151-161.

Conference Panels, Podcasts, Media, and Interviews

Ethics Statements, Industry Impacts and Planning for the Future 2023. Video

How to Accelerate Ethics for Innovation and Against Precaution in Generative AI, 2021, Medium. Text.

What is Dignity, and Why Does It Exempt ChatGPT from Ethics?, 2021, Medium. Text.

4 Reasons to Co-Teach AI Ethics with ChatGPT, 2021, Medium. Text.

Exploring the Complexities of AI Ethics, 2021, Leaders of Analytics Podcast. Podcast.

Inside the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: For a Decentralized Approach. Interview by Marco Emanuele. October 27, 2021, The Science of Where. Full text.

AI Human Impact: Toward a Model for Ethical Investing in AI-Intensive Companies, 2021, AI Asia Pacific Institute Podcast. Podcast.

How to Secure Representative Data Sets & Reduce Bias, 2020, ReWork: AI in RegTech Virtual Summit, September 17.

How Do You Build an Ethical, AI-Augmented Organisation That People Want to Work For? 2020, AI Summit Silicon Valley, CA: Video.

Coming Apart: How we became one nation divided by content, and what we can do about it, Panelist 2019, AI Summit New York, New York

Algorithmic Bias and Risk, Panelist 2019, Chief Data & Analytics Officers Meeting, Boston

Assessing Privacy & Regulation in AI Development & Deployment in Insurance, Panelist and Moderator AI in Insurance Summit/ReWork - NYC, 2019: Video.

Dignity, Pleasures Vulgarity interview
“James Brusseau on Animal Rights,” Animal Instinct on Heritage Radio Network, March 13, 2017.
http://heritageradionetwork.org/podcast/dignity-pleasures-vulgarity-philosophy-and-animal-rights/

Corporate malfeasance interview
“Insight: Why even the best companies commit systematic fraud (Indsigt: Derfor begår selv de bedste virksomheder systematisk svindel),” Jyllands-Posten (Denmark), May 12, 2016 (Finans).

Wealth inequality interview
“James Brusseau on Inequality & Philosophy.” Hopping Mad on Netroots Radio, June 9, 2016.
https://imhoppingmad.com/2016/06/20/dr-james-brusseau-on-inequality-philosophy/

Wealth inequality interview
“089: James Brusseau on Wealth Inequality and the Accursed Share.” Economic Rockstar, June 9, 2016.
http://www.economicrockstar.com/jamesbrusseau/

Wealth inequality interview
“Philosophy of Wealth Inequality.” Chuck Morse, Blog Talk Radio, June 1, 2016. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/chuckmorse/2016/06/01/philosophy-of-wealth-inequality

Empire of Humiliation interview
Jeff Farias Radio Show http://jamesbrusseau.net/books_and_essays/Interview_Jeff_Farias_Show_James_Brusseau.mp3

Media Production

Wealth Inequality documentary
http://cases.ethicsworkshop.org/wealth-In-doc.html
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Wealth Inequality Workshop
http://wealthinequalityworkshop.org/
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Surveillance Camera Man and the Ethics of Public Filming documentary
http://cases.ethicsworkshop.org/SurveillanceCM.html
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Case Studies in Ethics and Business Ethics
http://cases.ethicsworkshop.org/
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Corporate Social Responsibility Handbook
http://csr.ethicsworkshop.org/
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Graduate Dissertations, Director/Committee Member

Monique Munarini, Ph.D. Candidate, Italian National AI Ph.D., Pisa Italy. Ongoing.

Scott Skipworth, Ph.D., Torrens University Australia, The Internet of Things (IoT) Disseminating Human Embodimentin Architectural Theory and Practice, Committee Member, 2022.

Moises del Pino Pena, Ph.D., Philosophy, Mexican National University, Simulacros de la existencia: hacia una ontopoetica de la ficcion literaria, Committee Member, 2002.

Alicia Montemayor, M.A., Philosophy, Mexican National University, De poemas mudos y pinturas parlantes: sobre el discurso pictorico en la Grecia del periodo clasico, Co-Director, 2001.

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