AI Ethics & Society Lab

Navigating the Ethical Frontiers of AI for a Future of Complexity

FOCUS QUESTIONS

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What ethical frameworks should guide responsible AI development and deployment in society?

How might AI either intensify totalitarianism or propel resistance movements in an age of surveillance, empire, and nuclear/drone warfare?

Should post-human entities (clones, cyborgs, avatars) be given human rights and what are the ethical implications of AI’s potential threat to cause human extinction?

How will AI transform our relation to nature both in ecology (geo-engineering, climate, energy) and biogenetics (gene manipulation, immortality labs, inorganic life)?

IMPACTS

  • New AI-courses

  • Cutting-edge ethical research

  • Pedagogical innovation

  • Groundbreaking scholarly research

  • Ethical counsel for Babson, its programs, and faculty

  • Theme leadership at the Babson AI Generator Annual Conference

LEADER

Jason Mohaghegh

Jason Mohaghegh

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Leader of The Generator’s AI Ethics & Society Specialty Lab

“AI opens a Pandora’s Box of possibilities and challenges for the future. The outer limits of its potentials remain unknown, and so we must imagine what it might mean to cross this point of no return.”

AI research interests

  • AI and Cultural Movements
  • AI and Virtual Realities
  • AI and Philosophy (time, space, mind, body)
  • AI and the Ethics of the Future
  • AI and Existential Risk

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is a philosopher, literary theorist, and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Babson College. His scholarly work explores concepts of chaos, illusion, violence, disappearance, delirium, silence, secrecy, and apocalypse. He has published nine books to date, including: The Chaotic Imagination (2010); Inflictions: The Writing of Violence (2012); The Radical Unspoken (2013); Insurgent, Poet, Mystic, Sectarian (2014); a two-volume project on “night” titled Night: A Philosophy of the After Dark (2020) and Night II: A Philosophy of the Last World (2022); and a two-volume project on “madness” titled Omnicide: Mania, Fatalism, and the Future-In-Delirium (2019) and Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-In-Deception (2023). He is also the Founding Director of the Future Studies Program and Editor of the Futures Theory book series with Bloomsbury Press.

Recent publications

Omnicide: Mania, Fatalism, and the Future-In-Delirium (MIT Press, Urbanomic Series, 2019)

Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-In-Deception (MIT Press, Urbanomic Series, 2023)

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