Daniel Estrada
EDUCATION
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL Philosophy PhD 2014
- Dissertation: “Rethinking Machines: Artificial Intelligence Beyond the Philosophy of Mind”
- Committee: Profs. Jonathan Waskan, Daniel Korman, Steven Wagner, Andrew Arana
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, Philosophy MA 2005
- University of California Riverside, CA Philosophy BA 2003
- University of California Riverside, CA Computer Science BS 2003
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
- Artificial Intelligence
- Philosophy of Mind
- Philosophy of Science
- Philosophy of Technology
- Computer Science & Logic
- Autonomy
- Self-Organization
- Complex Adaptive Systems
- Human Computation
- Cognitive & Social Psychology
- AI Ethics
- Social Robotics
- Tech/Engineering Ethics
- Digital Humanities
- Robot Rights
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
- “Conscious Enactive Computation” (2018) Link.
- In AAAI SSS-19 Workshop Towards Conscious AI Systems
- “Value Alignment, Fair Play, and the Rights of Service Robots” (2018) Link.
- In 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society “
- “Gaming the Attention Economy” (2013) with Jonathan Lawhead Link.
- In The Handbook of Human Computation ed. Pietro Michelucci. Springer.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Human Supremacy as Posthuman Risk” (2019) forthcoming
- Computer Ethics - Philosophical Inquiry (CEPE-19), Norfolk VA
“#botALLY: Chatbots as a vanguard of resistance” (2019) Slides
- Gender, Bodies, and Technology (GBT-19), Roanoake VA
“Conscious Enactive Computation” (2019) Slides
- AAAI SSS-19 Workshop Towards Conscious AI Systems (TOCAIS-19), Stanford CA
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“Value Alignment, Fair Play, and the Rights of Service Robots” (2018) Slides
- AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES-18), New Orleans LA
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“Autonomy in Nonbiological Systems” (2015) Invited talk Slides
- Nature and Norms: Values in a Material World Graduate Conference, Johns Hopkins University
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“What’s Special About Biology? Autonomy and the System Individuation Problem” (2015) Slides
- Conference on Complex Systems 2015 Tempe Az
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“Gaming Communities as Educational Communities” (2014)
- Middle Atlantic States Philosophy of Education Society, University of Scranton
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“Technology in the Classroom” (2010)
- Philosophy in Schools, Columbia University
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“Sharing Existence: AI, Cyborgs, and the Phenomenology of Technology” (2007)
- Interactions: Artifacts and Us, Virginia Tech
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“Rethinking Machines: Artificial Intelligence Beyond the Philosophy of Mind”
- Thinking Affect: Memory, Language, and Cognition, University of Illinois (2007)
- PhilMilCog Conference, University of Western Ontario London, (2008)
SELECTED ONLINE WORK
- “Conditions on StarCraft supremacy and fair play for AI” (2019) Link
- “Major Positions on Conscious AI Systems” (2019) Link
- “A Timeline of Western Philosophy” (2018) Link
- “Hi friends. Let’s talk about the IPCC report” (2018) Link
- “Sophia and Her Critics: The Ethics of Human Likeness I” (2018) Link
- “Extinction Engineering” (2018) Link
- “Robot Rights: Cheap Yo!” (2017) Video Essay. Link
- “The Bot They Told You Not To Worry About” (2017) for Hackernoon Link
- “Every time Boston Dynamics has abused a robot” (2017) Video. Link
- “/r/place Shows How Identity Politics Works (Without All the Human Bullshit)” (2017) Video Essay. Link
- “Fifteen Sober Reflections after the NYU Ethics and AI conference” (2016) Link
- “The Minimal Agent” (2016) Link
- “Teaching ANNs with Tensorflow” (2016) Link
- “Radicalism as a Virtue” (2016) for Sweet Talk. Link
- “Synereo: The Decentralized and Distributed Social Network” (2015) with Konforty, D., Adam, Y., & Meredith, L. G. Link
- “Real Robot Movies” (2015) Link
- “Yes, AI Should Be Open” (2015) Link
- “Delusions about Eugene” (2015) Link
- “Autism and Wargames: Turing’s Moral Character in “The Imitation Game” (2014) Link
- “Field Guide from the Present on Organisms of the Future (2014) Link
- “Strangecoin: a nonlinear currency” (2014) Link
- “Fair Play for Machines: Chomsky’s misreading of Turing, and why it matters.” (2013) Link
IN PROGRESS
- “Humans, robots, and other agential kinds” (in preparation)
- “Floridi’s philosophy of information” (in preparation)
- “Autonomy in Western Philosophy” (Video Essay, in production)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark NJ
University Lecturer
2014 - Present
Courses:
- PHIL 334 Engineering Ethics (3-4 regular sections, 35-60 students, some online)
- STS 351 Minds and Machines (Spring, 30 students)
- HSS 405 Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy (regular senior seminar, 25 students)
Center for Talented Youth, Johns Hopkins University
Instructor
2006 - Present, Summers
16 students, 14-18 y.o., 3 week academic summer camp, 100+ hours classroom instruction
Courses:
- Human Nature and Technology (Princeton, NJ)
- Philosophy of Mind (Lancaster, PA) through 2015
Illinois State University, Normal IL
Instructional Assistant Professor
2009 - 2012
Courses:
- PHIL 101 Basic Issues in Philosophy (35 students, taught 1 time)
- PHIL 112 Language, Logic, and Math (35 students, 4)
- PHIL 210 Symbolic Logic I (35 students, 1)
- PHIL 224 Meaning and Religious Belief (35 students, 2)
- PHIL 238 Rights and Wrongs (35 students, 2)
- PHIL 251 Visions of the Self (35 students, 5)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL
Teaching Assistant, Grader, and Lead Instructor (for courses below)
2003 - 2010
Courses:
- PHIL 101 Introduction to Philosophy (35 students, taught 5 times)
- PHIL 102 Logic and Reasoning (35 students, 2)
- PHIL 105 Introduction to Ethics (35 students, 2)
- PHIL 199 Robots vs Zombies (16 students, special topics seminar, 1)
Other Instructional Positions
- Adjunct Instructor, Fordham University (Fall 2013)
- Adjunct Instructor, Kankakee Community College (Fall 2010)
- Talented Youth Summer Program, Hong Kong UST (Summer 2010)
- Tutor and Grader, University of California, Riverside (2000-2003)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIPS
- Associate Editor, Human Computation 2013-Present
- Member Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
- Member American Philosophical Association - Eastern Division
- Administrator, “Robot Rights Now!” Facebook Page Link.
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
- 2019 NJIT CSLA Award for Excellence in Scholarship by a University Lecturer
- 2011 Advisor, Illinois State Secular Student Alliance
- 2009 Teaching Excellence Award (Outstanding), U. Illinois Philosophy Dept.
- 2008 Teaching Excellence Award (Excellent), U. Illinois Philosophy Dept.
- 2008, 2011 Illinois Philosophy Graduate Colloquia Committee
- 2007 U. Illinois Philosophy Graduate Student Conference Chair
- 2006 Teaching Fellowship, U. Illinois Philosophy Dept.
- 2004-2006 Graduate Student Faculty Representative
- 2004-2006 Graduate Student Conference Committee
- 2002 Best Male Tutor, Math and Sciences, Learning Center University of California, Riverside