Today we’re joined by Abeba Birhane, PhD Student at University College Dublin and author of the recent paper Algorithmic Injustices: Towards a Relational Ethics. We caught up with Abeba, whose aforementioned paper was the recipient of the Best Paper award at the most recent Black in AI Workshop at NeurIPS, to go in-depth on the paper and the thought process around AI ethics. In our conversation, we discuss the “harm of categorization”, and how the thinking around these categorizations should be discussed, how ML generally doesn’t account for the ethics of various scenarios and how relational ethics could solve this issue, her most recent paper “Robot Rights? Let’s Talk about Human Welfare Instead,” and much more. Check out our complete write-up and resource page at twimlai.com/talk/348.