The dramatic rise of artificial intelligence, machine learning and autonomous systems raises technical and ethical questions about the role of data in society.
Our approach combines expertise in the mathematics and methods of AI with a focus on their real-world implications for decision-making and the social, ethical, and philosophical ramifications of current trends.
Current DSI activity
Dr Marcos Barreto
Assistant Professorial Lecturer - Department of Statistics
Research interests: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Linkage & Analytics, Data Science, High-Performance Computing. See website for more information.
Dr Chris Blunt
Assistant Professorial Lecturer and Co-Director of LSE100
Research interests: Philosophy of medicine, artificial intelligence, evidence and ethics, Evidence-Based Medicine, hierarchies of evidence, machine learning, natural language processing, clinical trial design, diagnostics.
Dr Joshua Loftus
Assistant Professor - Department of Statistics
I am interested in statistical and mathematical theory to support applications in the regulation, explanation, and control of machine learning and AI systems, especially in order to reduce social or environmental harms of the proliferation of such systems.
Disaggregated Interventions to Reduce Inequality (2021)
Dr Chengchun Shi
Assistant Professor - Department of Statistics
My research lies in reinforcement learning and analysis of complex data, with applications to healthcare, ridesharing and neuroimaging.
Dr Kate Vredenburgh
Assistant Professor - Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
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Related LSE research
The strong research community at the London School of Economics also takes an interest in this research theme. As the cornerstone of data science at LSE, the DSI acts as a nexus for research and learning, working alongside other Departments and Institutes across the School.
The interdisciplinary Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science that explores philosophical, methodological and foundational questions arising in the natural and the social sciences has published research into the ethics of artifical intelligence.