Silvia is a philosopher interested mainly in epistemology and ethics of Artificial Intelligence.
Dr Silvia Milano
Postdoctoral Researcher
Profile
Silvia Milano is a Postdoctoral Researcher in AI ethics at the OII, where she works in the GET project. Her recent research focuses on the epistemological and ethical aspects of recommender systems and applications of AI to personalisation and decision support.
Silvia graduated in Philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy) and earned a PhD in Philosophy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, with a thesis on the epistemology of self-locating beliefs.
Research
Current projects
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A Right to Reasonable Inferences in Advertising and Financial Services
Participants: Professor Sandra Wachter, Dr Brent Mittelstadt, Dr Silvia Milano, Dr Johann Laux, Dr Chris Russell
This project uses legal and ethical analysis to establish the requirements for applying a ‘right to reasonable inferences’ in Europe to protect against privacy-invasive and discriminatory automated decision-making in advertising and financial services.
Journal articles
- (2020) "Bayesian Beauty", Erkenntnis.
- (2019) Ethical Aspects of Multi-stakeholder Recommendation Systems.
- (2019) "Recommender Systems and their Ethical Challenges", AI and Society.
Integrity Statement
I conduct my research in line with the University's academic integrity code of practice.