Silvia is a philosopher interested mainly in epistemology and ethics of Artificial Intelligence, working with Dr Brent Mittelstadt.
Dr Silvia Milano
Research Associate
Profile
Silvia Milano was a Postdoctoral Researcher in AI ethics at the OII, where she worked 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.
Blog
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Targeted ads isolate and divide us even when they’re not political
14 July 2021
Authors: Silvia Milano, Brent Mittelstadt, Sandra Wachter
Targeted ads isolate and divide us even when they’re not political Leading experts in ethics and law Dr Silvia Milano, Dr Brent Mittelstadt and ...
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Press
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Targeted ads isolate and divide us even when they’re not political – new research
13 July 2021 The Conversation
Five years since the Brexit vote and three since the Cambridge Analytica scandal, we’re now familiar with the role that targeted political advertising can play in fomenting polarisation.