NEW PAPERS
Dada, M., Xie, W., Vlaad, S. and Stinson, C. (forthcoming). What’s in a Name?: Pre-Crime Biases in Generative AI. International Conference on Large Language Models (LLM 2025.)
Grigoreva, V., Stinson, C. and Muise, C. (forthcoming). Analysis of Linguistic Effects of Self-Consuming Training. International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM 2025).
Khan, R. and Stinson, C. (forthcoming) Auditing Facial Emotion Recognition Datasets for Posed Expressions and Racial Bias. Auditing Facial Emotion Recognition. International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM 2025). https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10755
Cappello, A. and Stinson, C. (conditional acceptance). The Challenges of Big Data and AI for Research Ethics in Canada: A Survey of University REBs. https://hdl.handle.net/1974/34799
Stinson, C. (forthcoming). Engagement versus Therapeutic Alliance: Large Language Models in AI Psychotherapy. American Journal of Bioethics.
2026
Khan, R., Sauve, A., Bayoumi, I., Simpson, A.L. and Stinson, C. (2026). The Patient/Industry Tradeoff in Medical Artificial Intelligence. AI and Ethics, 6:99. http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06144
2025
Crosby, A., McClelland, A., Sharpe, T., Maeder, E., Stinson, C., Samuels Wortley, K., Khan, R.F. and Lin, Z. (2025) Tracking (In)Justice: Documenting Fatal Encounters with Police in Canada. Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 1–25 doi:10.1017/cls.2025.1.
Stinson, C. (2025). Raising an AI Teenager. The Philosophy of Ted Chiang. Ed. D. Friedell. Palgrave MacMillan. https://philpapers.org/rec/STIRAA or https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-81662-8
Vlaad, S. (2025). Texts Without Authors: Ascribing Literary Meaning in the Case of AI. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. https://academic.oup.com/jaac/article/83/1/4/7964706
2024
Vlaad, S. (2024). A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Algorithm. Ethics and Information Technology. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09796-0
Aitken, W., Abdalla, M., Rudie, K. & Stinson, C. (2024). Collaboration or Corporate Capture? Quantifying NLP’s Reliance on Industry Artifacts and Contributions. Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.188/
Stinson, C. (2024). What are large language models made of? In M. E. Norris and S. E. Smith (Eds.), Leading the Way: Envisioning the Future of Higher Education. https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/futureofhighereducation/chapter/what-are-large-language-models-made-of/
Cappello, A., Dada, M., Grigoreva, V., Khan, R., Stinson, C. & Stuart, H. (2024) Large Language Models and the Disappearing Private Sphere. Report for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner Contributions Program. https://labs.cs.queensu.ca/etlab/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2024/04/OPC_Final_Report_2023.pdf
Stinson, C. & Vlaad, S. (2024). A Feeling for the Algorithm: Diversity and Expertise in Artificial Intelligence. Big Data & Society. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20539517231224247
Vlaad, S. (2024). Transitioning Texts and Genre Reassignment: Trans Poetics as Trans Philosophy. PhiloSOPHIA. https://www.pdcnet.org/sophia/content/sophia_2024_0014_0031_0049
2023
Oreamuno, E.L., R.F. Khan, A.A. Bangash, C. Stinson, B. Adams. (2023) The State of Documentation Practices of Third-Party Machine Learning Models and Datasets. IEEE Software. 41(5):52-59. https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/so/2024/05/10436659/1UyViY2HASk
Srivastava, A., A. Rastogi, A. Rao, …, Stinson, C., et al. (441 additional authors). (2023). Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models. Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2835-8856. https://openreview.net/forum?id=uyTL5Bvosj
Li, J., Aitken, W., Bhambhoria, R., & Zhu, X. (2023). Prefix Propagation: Parameter-Efficient Tuning for Long Sequences. Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12086
Medema, E. (2023). A Comprehensive Framework for the Development of Ethical Machine Learning in Medicine. Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.21428/594757db.166dda67
2022
Ferguson, V. (August 2022) Race, Racism, and Sickle Cell Disease: Where it Began and Where it Ends. The Red Blood Cell Disorders hub. https://www.rbcd.ca/blog/race-racism-and-sickle-cell-disease-where-it-began-and-where-it-ends
Stinson, C (2022). Algorithms are not Neutral: Bias in Collaborative Filtering. AI and Ethics. https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s43681-022-00136-w
Stinson, C (2022). Fuck the Algorithm: Conceptual Issues in Algorithmic Bias. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13509
Robertson, J., C. Stinson & T. Hu. (2022). A Bio-Inspired Framework for Machine Bias Interpretation. In Proceedings of the 2022 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, AIES ’22. 588598. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3514094.3534126
Neophytou, N., B. Mitra & C. Stinson. (2022). Revisiting Popularity and Demographic Biases. In Recommender Evaluation and Effectiveness. In Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13185. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99736-6_43
Li, X., Aitken, W., Zhu, X., & Thomas, S. W. (2022). Learning Better Intent Representations for Financial Open Intent Classification. arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.14304. https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14304
2021
Stinson, C. (January 2021) The Dark Past of Algorithms That Associate Appearance and Criminality. American Scientist, 109:1(26). https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-dark-past-of-algorithms-that-associate-appearance-and-criminality
2020
Stinson, C., L. James, M. Abdalla, N. Moellers, S. Mosurinjohn, S. Phillips & A. Simpson. (November 2020) Limit Corporate Influence, Maximize Public Involvement and Accountability. New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization. https://alliancecan.ca/en/document/232
Stinson, C. (2020) From Implausible Artificial Neurons to Idealized Cognitive Models: Rebooting Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. Philosophy of Science. 87(4), 590–611. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/709730
Stinson, C. (September 2020) Agency and Ethics in a Complex World. Future EDge, Issue 2. New South Wales Department of Education. https://education.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/main-education/teaching-and-learning/education-for-a-changing-world/media/documents/FutureEdge-Issue2.pdf
Stinson, C. (May 2020) Algorithms Associating Appearance and Criminality Have a Dark Past. Aeon. https://aeon.co/ideas/algorithms-associating-appearance-and-criminality-have-a-dark-past