What I’ve Accomplished

This page is to highlight what I have written, where I’ve presented, and my professional service. Feel free to contact me about any and all of these.

  • Peer Reviewed Articles & Chapters

    “AI and Disability: Emerging Concerns.”  Emily LaRosa and Joseph Stramondo. Frana, Philip L., Klein, Michael J. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence: The Past, Present, and Future of AI. Bloomsbury Press, 2026. (Forthcoming)

    “AI and Conservation.”  Samantha Noll and Emily LaRosa. Frana, Philip L.,         Klein, Michael J. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence: The Past, Present, and Future of AI. Bloomsbury Press, 2026. (Forthcoming)

     

    “Deepfakes and Contextual Integrity Violations.” Emily LaRosa and S. Conklin.   Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering,  Science, and Technology (ETHICS). IEEE, 2025.

      “Trust the Expert, not the AI: Agency, Reliability, and Appropriately Grounded Trust in Autonomous Healthcare Robotic Systems.” Tsou, Jonathan Y., Shaw, Jamie, and Fehr, Carla (eds.), Values, Pluralism, and Pragmatism: Themes from the Work of Matthew J. Brown. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Cham: Springer. 2025.

    “The TinMan Has a Heart: How HCAI Can Meet Population Needs and Address Care Inequities.Kultur und Körperlichkeit. ed. Dr. Manuel Clemens. University of Vechta. 2024.

     

    “Impacts on Trust of Healthcare AI.” Emily LaRosa and David Danks. AIES ’18 . Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics and Society. Doi                                  10.1145/3278721.3278771

                        

    Reports

    “Algorithmic Bias and the Weaponization of Increasingly Autonomous Technologies,” United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research.  Major contributor for UNIDIR Observation Paper 9 (2019). https://unidir.org/sites/default/files/publication/pdfs/algorithmic-bias-and-the-weaponization-of-increasingly-autonomous-technologies-en-720.pdf

    “Repatriation Measures and Current Tax Structure,” May 2016, MRCTI Internal Assistance Platforms and Reports. Available upon Request.

    “Drinking Water and Clean Water State Revolving Funds,” Winter 2016, MRCTI Internal Assistance Platforms and Reports. Available upon Request.

      “Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines: Legality, Threat Assessment, and Concerns for the Mississippi River Waterways,” July 2014, MRCTI Internal Assistance Platforms and Reports. Available upon Request.

    “Security and Social Dimensions of City Surveillance Policy: Analysis and Recommendations for Pittsburgh” December 2014, Carnegie Mellon University. https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/ehpp/documents/2014-City-Surveillance-Policy.pdf

  • “Autonomous Pollinators, Heritage Crops, and Possibility.” (w/ Samantha Noll) Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society – Association for the Study of Food and Society Conference, Corvallis, OR, USA.

    “Deepfakes and Contextual Integrity Violations.” (w/ Sherri Lynn Conklin) Computing Ethics and Philosophical Inquiry 2025 (CEPE), Rome, Italy.

    “Deepfakes and Contextual Integrity Violations”. (w/ Sherri Lynn Conklin) 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (ETHICS), Chicago, IL, USA.

    “Ethical Boundaries in the Use of Private and Public Information for Deepfake Creation.” (w/ Sherri Lynn Conklin) – National Symposium on Equitable AI, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA.

     “Apples, AI, and Applied Theory: An Appropriate Approach to AI System Transparency.” American Philosophical Association – Central. Virtual.

    “Agricultural AI and Ethics: Information Frameworks and Their Role.” Summit for Artificial Intelligence Leadership National Science Foundation Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

    “Farm to DataTable: An Exploration into the Societal Interconnectivity of Autonomous Technologies and Agricultural Life.” Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society – Association for the Study of Food and Society Conference Right to Food – Food as Commons, SUNY ESF, Syracuse, NY, USA.

    “Creating Justifiable Systems: A Call for Iterative Regulation of AI.” Governance of Emerging Technologies, Arizona State University, AZ, USA.

    “Curated Information Framework: A Route to Justifiable AI Transparency.” American Philosophical Association - Pacific, Portland, OR, USA.

    “From Lab to Farm: Societal Concerns and Philosophical Questions Surrounding Agricultural AI.” Workshop on Agricultural Research and Society, IROS-IEEE, Detroit, MI, USA.

    “An Algorithm in Doctor’s Clothing: Establishing Appropriate Trust Grounding with HCAI.” Public Philosophy Network, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.

    “Trust the Expert, Not the AI: Appropriate HCAI Trust Grounding.” Values in Medicine, Science and Technology Annual Conference, University of Texas at Dallas, TX, USA.

    “Trust the Expert, Not the AI: Appropriate HCAI Trust Grounding.” Governance of Emerging Technologies, Arizona State University, AZ, USA.

    AI, Social Impacts, and Active Maintenance Goals for Socially Embodied Systems.” International Conference on Social Robotics, Florence, Italy.

    AI Systems and Continuous Social Impact: A Case for Forethought and Active Maintenance.” Governance of Emerging Technologies, Arizona State University, AZ, USA.

    “AI and Digital Sovereignty Ethics.” Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium, Nashville, TN.

    “Appropriate Trust Anchoring in Healthcare AI.” History and Philosophy of Science, Values in Science Working Group, Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K.

    “Responsible AI and Trust.” Keynote Speech, ExpandAI TXST Center for Analytics and Data Science, Texas State University, virtual.

    “AI and Campaigns: Use and Misuse.” Foley Institute, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

    Workshop, Ethics and Trustworthiness at SAIL, NSF AI Institutes (closed), Society of Artificial Intelligence Leadership, Pittsburgh, PA.

     

     

  • Professional Work

    ISO/TC 347: Data Driven Agrifood Systems, Voting Member. 2025-Present

    Guest Editor, Special Issue, AI Ethics Public Philosophy Journal, Virtual. 2025-Present

    Editorial Assistant, Public Philosophy Journal, Virtual. August 2024 – August 2025

    VERITIES Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Departmental Workshop Co-Lead and Coordinator, August 2023 – Nov 2023

    Carnegie Mellon University Department of Philosophy, Pittsburgh, PA. Researcher and Project Manager, July 2017 – Sept 2019

    Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative, St. Louis, MO. Operations Manager, Sep 2015 – July 2017

     

    Event Organization

    AI and Ethics Amongst NSF Institutions Workshop, October 7, 2024, Pittsburgh, PA. Co-Organizer.

    Trust in Autonomous Systems, August 9-14, 2018, Portland, ME. Lead Organizer.

    Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative 2016 Annual Meeting, September 13-15, 2016. Natchez, MS. Co-Organizer with Colin Wellenkamp (MRCTI Executive Director).

    Mississippi River Cities and Towns 2016 Capitol Meeting, March 8-10, 2016. Washington, D.C. Lead Organizer.

     Mississippi River Cities and Towns 2014 Capitol Meeting, March 24-26, 2014. Washington, D.C. Co-Organizer with Colin Wellenkamp (MRCTI Executive Director).