Luke Stark
Appointment
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars 2024-2026
Future Flourishing
About
My research explores the history and contemporary effects of artificial intelligence (AI) systems designed to interact with humans. I’m especially interested in the application of social and emotional artificial intelligence (AI) systems in disciplines such as psychology, medicine, and education: all areas where AI is deployed to reshape the lives of citizens in the name of societal improvement. My work explores how the organizations developing these tools understand concepts like human emotion, intelligence, and sentience; how those definitions are operationalized in AI applications; and how impacted communities resist and reject such technologies and the broader ideologies behind them. My scholarship also explores the conceptual and philosophical limits of key components of AI systems such as logical inference and interactivity, and the ways in which human values like equality, justice, and privacy can be supported in the design of digital technologies.
Awards
- Inaugural Scholar-in-Residence, University of Toronto, Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, 2023-2024
- Fellow, Harvard University, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2017-18
- Media, Culture, and Communication Outstanding Teacher Award, New York University, 2016
- Inaugural Fellow, University of California Berkeley, Center for Technology, Society, and Policy 2015-16
Relevant Publications
- Stark, L. (2023). Artificial intelligence and the conjectural sciences. BJHS Themes, Volume 8: Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power, 35 - 49. DOI: 10.1017/bjt.2023.3
- Stark, L. & Hoey, J. (2021). The Ethics of Emotion in Artificial Intelligence Systems. Proceedings of the 2021ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT): 782-793. DOI: 10.1145/3442188.3445939
- Stark, L. (2018). Algorithmic Psychometrics and the Scalable Subject. Social Studies of Science, 48 (2): 204-231. DOI: 10.1177/0306312718772094