Rate My Professor Kate Vredenburgh

Her research addresses questions in the philosophy of social science, political philosophy, and the philosophy of AI, focusing on explanation and explainable AI, institutional transparency, the philosophy of work, egalitarianism, and fair allocation. Key publications include 'The Right to Explanation' in the Journal of Political Philosophy (2022), 'Freedom at Work: Understanding, Alienation, and the AI-Driven Workplace' in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2022), 'AI and Bureaucratic Discretion' in Inquiry (2023), 'Transparency and Explainability for Public Policy' in the LSE Public Policy Review (2024), 'Causal Explanation and Revealed Preferences' in Philosophy of Science (2024), and 'Fairness and Randomness in Decision-Making: The Case of Algorithmic Hiring' in Synthese (2025). In July 2024, she was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for the project 'Your Boss is a Machine: Protecting Worker Autonomy in an AI-Driven Economy' (2024-2028), which examines AI's effects on worker autonomy, develops a moral theory of worker autonomy, conducts empirical research on AI impacts in the UK, and creates metrics to assess autonomy and regulatory interventions. Vredenburgh has engaged in public philosophy through podcasts on AI's societal impacts and seminars on related topics.