Publications

1. (Pre-Print) “Execution by Lethal Autonomous Mechanism: How Anti-Capital Punishment Arguments Might Lead to Automated Executions-and Why Such Automation Must Be Prevented.” (February 17, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5146574 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5146574 (With Renee Sirbu and Luciano Floridi)

2. “LLMs belong in our Social Ontology.” In How to Live With Smart Machines. Xenomoi Verlag, Berlin, Edited by Anna Strasser. (May 2024). https://www.denkwerkstatt.berlin/ANTHOLOGY-AI-2023/

3. “Social Agency, Chatbots, and the Ethics of AI.” In Digital Society. (with John Symons) (2024). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376878702_Social_Agency_for_Artifacts_Chatbots_and_the_Ethics_of_Artificial_Intelligence

4. “Generative AI and Human Labor: Who is Replaceable?” AI and Society (2023).

5. “How Deep is AI’s Love? Understanding Relational AI.” Brain Behavioral Science. 46, E33 (2023). doi:10.1017/S0140525X22001704 (with Gillath, Omri; Ai, Ting; Branicky, Michael; Davison, Rob; Maxwell, Rulo; Symons, John; and Thomas, Gregory).

6. “Implementing a Computing System: A Pluralistic Approach,” in Global Philosophy. 33, no. 1 (2023): 1-19.). https://philpapers.org/rec/ABUIACBJPS

Book Reviews

1. “Review of The Foundation of Computing by Giuseppe Primiero.” The British Journal of Philosophy Science. Fall 2021. <www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/symons-abumusab-on-primiero/> (With John Symons

Journal Special Issue Guest Editor

1. “Evaluating the effects of Large Language Models in writing-intensive courses” Guest Editor for a special issue in Teaching Philosophy (April 2024).

Under Review

1. Chatbots as Socio-Functional Companions for Lonely Older Adults.

2. “Digital Alienation: An Epistemic Argument.” (with Damian Fisher).

3. [A paper on Intercultural Ethics of AI].

Under Preparation

1. Trust and ML in bail hearings (with David Tamez).

2. [Paper on Social AI].

3. [A paper Women in Islam].

4. [A paper on Descriptivist theory of Implementation]

Presentations and Events

1. Invited - Panelist “Bioethics of AI.” Yale University. The Biological Sciences Training Program (BSTP) in Psychiatry. Feb 2025 (upcoming)

2. Invited - Panelist “Global Perspective on AI Ethics.” International Association for Safe and Ethical AI. Feb 2025 Paris, France.

3. “The Virtue of Artificiality: Islamic Ethics and the Reconceptualization of AI Agents" International Association for Safe and Ethical AI 25. Feb 2025 Paris, France.

4. “Large Language Models Belong in Our Social Ontology.” Social Ontology Conference July 22-25, 2024. International Social Ontology Society (ISOS). Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

5. “How to Address the Anthropomorphism Dilemma in Social AI Systems.” IACAP, July 8-10, 2024. Eugene, OR. University of Oregon.

6. “ML Assistance, Epistemic Virtues, and Judicial Decision-Making.” July 8-10, IACAP, July 8-10, 2024. Eugene, OR. University of Oregon.

7. “AI and Memory.” IPM4. Geneva, Switzerland. June 2024

8. “What is Digital Alienation"?” with Damian Fisher. AI and Ethics Conference March 2024. Graz University. Graz, Austria.

9. Trust and ML - Summer school 2023 by Philosophy of Computational Sciences Group at HLRS - Stuggart, Germany. 

10. FAccT 2023 - Doctoral Colloquim Participant, Chicago, USA.

11. “The Digital Alienation from the Self: An Epistemic Argument.” May 2023 Talk at CEPE 2023 with Damian Fisher.

12. “Agency before Sociality for Chatbots.” Talk at CEPE 2023. May, 2023

13. “Technology and Public Health.” Panel Member for CEAS Public Health Symposium. The Center for East Asian Studies, April 7 2023.

14. “Social Agency for LLMs as chatbots.” Talk at PAIS 2023. Stanford University. January, 2023

15. “The Ontological Vagueness of Descriptivism as a Theory of Implementation,” Poster Presented at Philosophy of Science Association, November 2022.

16. “How Deep is AI love: Use of LLMs for creating relationships.” Talk with John Symons at Southwestern College on October 2022

17. “Ethics of Emerging Technologies in Health Care.” Symposium with Dr. Brad Cokelet on Public Health with East Asian Studies on October 2022

18. “The use of Chatbots/LLMs as nostalgia Bots for alleviating loneliness in the Elderly.” Presented at IPM 3 (Issues in Philosophy of Memory) on July 2022

19. “The Puzzle of Joint Attention.” Comments at SSPP on by Bryan Chambliss. April 2022

20. “Blockchain: Crypto and Trust.” University of Kansas Block Chain Institute. March 2021

21. “Divine Hiddenness and Islam.” The Workshop on Divine Hiddenness by Lawrence Pasternack, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma. February 2017