Construct Validity in Automated Counterterrorism Analysis.
Governments and social scientists are increasingly developing machine learning methods to automate the process of identifying terrorists in real time and predict future attacks. However, current operationalizations of "terrorist"' in artificial intelligence are difficult to justify given three issue...
| Published in: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 92; no. 3; pp. 566 - 584 |
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Jul2025
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