Research

My main research interests are in (1) the ethics and governance of AI, (2) brand authenticity, and (3) moral and social philosophy.

Ethics and governance of AI

AI at work

I explore how organizations should reallocate discretion, judgment, and accountability as AI systems increasingly take on a consequential role in decision pipelines, and what that reallocation does to the human members who remain.

Jang, M. “Humanness in the Loop.” Under review.

Jang, M., Lankoski, L., Ronnegard, D., & Smith, N. C. “Conceptualizing Reasonable Care in Human-AI Systems.” Working paper.

Jang, M., & Choe, Y. J. “That’s What Claude Said: AI Overreliance as Unwarranted Closure of Inquiry.” In preparation.

Jang, M. “Toward a Discretion-Based Account of AI’s Organizational Status.” In preparation.

Meaning and justice in the age of AI

In two companion papers, we explore the questions of meaning and justice in the age of automation—or what we call the “age of abundant intelligence,” in which intelligence once deemed the hallmark of humanity becomes as cheap and plentiful as grain became with mechanized agriculture.

Jang, M. & Tsetlin, I. “Staying Human: Meaning in Life in the Age of Abundant Intelligence.” In preparation.

Jang, M. & Tsetlin, I. “Just Disruption: AI, Self-Respect, and the Difference Principle.” In preparation.

Brand authenticity

We develop a thicker account of brand authenticity that can explain the widely observed yet under-explained tension between authenticity and commercialization.

Jang, M. & Smith, N. C. “The Trouble with Authenticity.” Under review.

Moral and social philosophy

I also work on normative and applied ethics, with a focus on blame and microaggressions.

Jang, M. “Moral Anger, Blame, and Microaggressions.” Under review.

Jang, M. “Passable Offense: A New Structural Account of Microaggressions.” Working paper.

• Winner of the Minorities and Philosophy Ethicist Prize at the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress