Derek Leben

Associate Teaching Professor of Business Ethics

Education

• Johns Hopkins University - Ph D - 2012
• Johns Hopkins University - MA - 2009
• University of California at Santa Cruz - BA - 2006

Publications

• Fairness for AI
  (author(s): Derek Leben)
  MIT Press, 2024
• AI for Analytical Reasoning in Negotiation and Business Ethics
  (author(s): Lily Morse, Derek Leben)
  Forthcoming in Journal of Management Inquiry
  Special Issue: AI and the Student-Centered Business School
• Assessing Group Fairness with Social Welfare Optimization
  (author(s): Violet Chen, John Hooker, Derek Leben)
  Forthcoming in Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research
• Teaching AI Ethics as a Renaissance in Business Ethics
  (author(s): Derek Leben)
  Forthcoming in Teaching Ethics
  Special Issue: Teaching the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical Issues for AI in Medicine
  (author(s): Derek Leben)
  Forthcoming in Digital Health-Telemedicine and Beyond (Dipu Patel, ed.)
  Elsevier
• Local Justice and Machine Learning: Modeling and Inferring Dynamic Ethical Preferences toward Allocations
  (author(s): Violet Chen, Joshua Williams, Hoda Heidari, Derek Leben)
  Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on AI, 2023
• Explainable AI as Evidence of Fair Decisions
  (author(s): Derek Leben)
  Frontiers in Psychology 14, 2023
  Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics in Business
• Discrimination in Algorithmic Trolley Problems
  Autonomous Vehicle Ethics: The Trolley Problem and Beyond (Ryan Jenkins, David Cerny, and Tomas Hribek, eds.)
  (author(s): Derek Leben)
  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022
• Normative Principles for Evaluating Fairness in Machine Learning
  (author(s): Derek Leben)
  Proceedings of the 2020 Meeting of AI, Ethics, and Society, 2020
• Pascal’s Artificial Intelligence Wager
  (author(s): Derek Leben)
  Philosophy Now Magazine, 2020
• Ethics for Robots: How to Design a Moral Algorithm
  (author(s): Derek Leben)
  Routledge Press, 2018
• A Rawlsian Algorithm for Autonomous Vehicles
  (author(s): Derek Leben)
  Ethics and Information Technology 19(2), 2017
• In Defense of Ought Implies Can
  (author(s): Derek Leben)
  Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy (Vol. 3), 2017
• In Defense of Best-Explanation Debunking Arguments
  (author(s): Jonathon Hricko, Derek Leben)
  Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2017
• Neoclassical Concepts
  (author(s): Derek Leben)
  Mind and Language 30(1), 2015
• Pushing the Intuitions behind Moral Internalism
  (author(s): Derek Leben, Kristine Wilkens)
  Philosophical Psychology 28(4), 2014
• When Psychology Undermines Beliefs
  (author(s): Derek Leben)
  Philosophical Psychology 27(3), 2012
• Cognitive Neuroscience and Moral Decision-Making: Guide or Set Aside?
  (author(s): Derek Leben)
  Neuroethics 4(2), 2011

Working Papers

• Justifying the Costs of AI Fairness: a commentary on Fairness and Machine Learning
  (author(s): Derek Leben)
  Under review

Derek Leben, Ph.D., is also featured faculty for Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business Executive Education Open Enrollment program, Emerging Business Applications of GenAI.