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Thomas Stapleford

Director, ND-PAIDEIA
Assoc. Prof., Program of Liberal Studies

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Biography

Tom Stapleford is an historian and philosopher of science in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame. The author of The Cost of Living in America: A Political History of Economic Statistics (Cambridge 2009) and co-editor of Building Chicago Economics (Cambridge 2011) and Science, Technology, and Virtues (Oxford 2021), his work explores efforts to replace human judgment with formal rules and automated systems. He holds an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and a Ph.D. in the history of science. Stapleford is the director of the Notre Dame Program on AI and the Development of Ethics in Agents (ND-PAIDEIA), and is completing a book on The Ethics of Official Facts.