signal detection theory

The Precautionary Principle and the Innovation Principle: Incompatible Guides for AI Innovation Governance?

This paper develops a decision-theoretic framework reconciling the weak forms of the Precautionary Principle (PP) and the Innovation Principle (IP), and applies this to AI innovation governance. It provides formal underpinning for practices in regulatory sandboxing, as well as the limits thereof.

Adjusting Inferential Thresholds to Reflect Nonepistemic Values

Many philosophers have challenged the ideal of value-free science on the grounds that social or moral values are relevant to inferential thresholds. But given this view, how precisely and to what extent should scientists adjust their inferential …