Steven Kelts

Short Bio

Steven Kelts is a Lecturer in Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy. He is also an ethics advisor to the Responsible A.I. Institute. His recent research focuses on two things: First, the measurement of effective ethics teaching for computing students; and second, the special nature of today’s tech firms and their potential for ethical action. He is the recipient of two grants from Princeton’s Council on Science and Technology for a program called “Agile Ethics,” teaching undergraduate computer science and engineering majors how to consider ethical issues within their professional workflows. He also received a seed grant from Google to apply findings from this program in corporate settings, looking specifically at the uses and misuses of utilitarian logic by engineers on Agile teams (incl. Scrum, Kanban, MLOps, etc.). Kelts also has led the GradFutures initiative on Ethics of AI for the Princeton Graduate School, with the objective of encouraging Ph.D. candidates in all disciplines to apply their expertise in the field of tech ethics, at universities or in corporations.

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