Dear all,
The SNU Institute of Philosophy is pleased to host Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi, a Fellow from UCLA, for a guest lecture titled "Extra Hungry Judges." We warmly invite everyone interested to attend.
- Date: Monday, February 3, 2025, 4:00–6:00 PM
- Venue: Humanities Building 6, Room 403 (Institute of Philosophy and Thought)
- Speaker: Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi
- Topic: Extra Hungry Judges
Lecture Overview:
In 2011, Danziger, Levav and Avnaim-Pesso claimed to have shown that hungry judges tend to be harsher. Today, this putative “hungry judge” effect is among the chief motivations behind efforts to delegate judicial decisions to AI systems, given they don’t experience hunger or fatigue. Yet, this discourse misses something crucial: whereas decisions by human judges are only allegedly affected by such factors as hunger or fatigue, AI decisions certainly are, given they predict what humans would do on the basis of such factors as their hunger or fatigue. As such, automation would exacerbate the problem it purports to solve. Put succinctly: the hungry judge effect is a nightmarish prophecy; AI judges are its self-fulfillment.
About the Speaker:
Amin Ebrahimi Afrouzi is a Law & Philosophy Fellow at UCLA School of Law and teaches Legal Philosophy. His research lies in Jurisprudence, Interpretation, and the Justness of Political Procedures. He previously held the Knight Digital Public Sphere Fellowship at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, where he worked on AI and the Law.