Will Fleisher
Name
Will Fleisher
Organization/Company Affiliation (full name)
Georgetown University
Position Title
Dept. Of Philosophy & Center For Digital Ethics
Speaker Bio
Will Fleisher is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and a Research Assistant Professor in the Center for Digital Ethics. He is also affiliated with the Technology, Ethics, and Society program. His areas of specialization are in the ethics of AI and in epistemology. Will’s research concerns the ethical, political, and epistemic implications of contemporary and near-term AI systems, particularly those developed using machine learning techniques. He has written about algorithmic fairness and explainable AI. He also maintains a research program in the epistemology of inquiry. His work has been published in AAAI/ACM conference proceedings and in leading philosophy journals, including Noûs, Philosophical Studies, and Philosophy of Science. Before coming to Georgetown, Will was a postdoctoral fellow in the Experiential AI program at Northeastern University and a McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his PhD in Philosophy from Rutgers University.