Research
I am a Post-Doctoral Fellow at McMaster University’s Digital Society Lab, researching at the intersection of emerging technologies, democracy, and societal change. My focus is on national AI policies, organizational adoption of 'Responsible AI', and the potential democratic challenges posed by implementing Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). I have authored several reports about technology, human rights, privacy, and democracy, some of which have been published in leading outlets. Before joining McMaster, I completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Ethics of AI Lab at the University of Toronto, where I researched the concept of 'Trustworthy AI' and its relation to policy-making and ethics-washing, and the Ethics of CBDCs. My Ph.D. dissertation (Graduate Program in Science, Technology & Society @ Bar-Ilan University in Israel) deals with the topic of trust in technologies, focusing on blockchain networks and conversational AIs. Keywords: AI Policy; AI Ethics; Responsible AI; Trust and Technology; Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC); Science and Technology Studies; Philosophy of Technology; Social Epistemology Please feel free to contact me
Research areas are derived from OpenAlex topics of their publications.
27 publications.
‘Opacity’ and ‘Trust’: From Concepts and Measurements to Public Policy
Freiman O, McAndrews J, Mansell J, van der Linden C
Norm Violations in Online Discourse: Epistemic and Civil Foundations for Platform Design and Moderation
Barnoy A, Freiman O, Keren A, Miller B
AI-Testimony, Conversational AIs and Our Anthropocentric Theory of Testimony
Freiman O
Analysis of Beliefs Acquired from a Conversational AI: Instruments-based Beliefs, Testimony-based Beliefs, and Technology-based Beliefs
Freiman O
The Democratic Aspects of the Israeli Digital Shekel
Freiman O
Automation's Hidden Costs: The Case Against a Paywalled Human Touch
Freiman O, Geslevich Packin N
Making sense of the conceptual nonsense ‘trustworthy AI’
Freiman O
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Concept of Trust: An Analysis Based on the Israeli COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign
Freiman O
Central Bank Digital Currencies Could Mean the end of Democracy
Freiman O
AI, Liability, and The Future of the Legal System
Freiman O
Courses taught
1- Graduate
Architectures of Digital Ecosystems
PUBPOL 707 · last taught 2025
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Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
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