Bryce Goodman

DPhil student Bryce Goodman
DPhil Student

Bryce Goodman is a DPhil student interested in the ethics and governance of artificial intelligence, disinformation, deep ecology and Buddhist philosophy. He completed an AA in comparative literature from Deep Springs College, a BA (first class) in politics, philosophy and economics at New College, Oxford and an MSc (first class) in philosophy and data science at St Cross College, Oxford, where he was also a Clarendon Scholar. His undergraduate thesis on genetic privacy and biomedical big data was supervised by Profs. Julian Savulescu and Roger Crisp, and his graduate thesis on algorithmic discrimination and explainability was supervised by Prof Luciano Floridi. Outside of his studies, he serves as Chief Strategist for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at the US Department of Defense’s Innovation Unit, ethics rapporteur at the European Research Council and advisor to the US National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. 

Select publications and links:

  1. B. W. Goodman (2017), Discrimination, Data Sanitization and Auditing in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. European Data Protection Law Review.
  2. B. W. Goodman (2016), A Step Towards Accountable Algorithms?: Algorithmic Discrimination and the European Union General Data Protection. NeurIPS.
  3. B. W. Goodman (2016), Economic Models of (Algorithmic) Discrimination. NIPS, Best paper award.
  4. B. W. Goodman & S. Flaxman (2016), European Union Regulations on Algorithmic Decision Making and a “Right to Explanation”. ICML.
  5. B. W. Goodman (2016), What’s Wrong with the Right to Genetic Privacy? Published in Springer’s Ethics of Biomedical Big Data.
  6. B. W. Goodman (2014), Capitalism, Buddha and the Manufacture of Desire. Asterisk Magazine.