What does it take for something to infringe your privacy? Plausibly, something can infringe your privacy only if it has some kind of awareness of you. But what kind of awareness matters? The question is relevant now because AI may soon become aware in unfamiliar ways, and we should like to figure out whether they can infringe our privacy. We should also assess the moral significance of threats to privacy posed by AI.
In this talk, I distinguish between four types of awareness and consider some cases in an attempt to clarify which type(s) of awareness may matter. I use the cases to motivate a distinction between subjective and objective privacy infringements, and then I make some suggestions about how they are grounded differently and have different moral significance.
A hybrid event for Uehiro Oxford Institute Members and Associates (booking not required).
