#1091 Vlasta Sikimić: Cognitive Diversity in Science, and the Ethics of AI

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined for a second time by Dr. Vlasta Sikimic. She is assistant professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology. I'm leaving a link to our first interview in the description of this one, and today we're talking mostly about

cognitive diversity in science and its importance and also a little bit about the philosophy and ethics of AI. So Vlaste, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to talk with you. Thank you so much for the invitation and I'm very happy to be here again. Okay, so let's start with the topic of cognitive diversity.

So f to start off with, what is cognitive diversity? Cognitive diversity is used in epistemology to understand different ways of reasoning and it can also be used from the perspective of psychology, whether someone has different types of biases, different types of ways of processing information. What is of interest for us is to also understand epistemic diversity. And I must admit immediately that I even consulted with some of my colleagues in preparation for this interview. And we realized that we are using not clearly these two terms, but often interchangeably, which might not be the case.

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