2 days 3 talks! #AI and Loneliness, Artifactual Epistemology and AI, and Civilizational Risks and AI. First one to the greater community at Iowa State University, second to their philosophy department, third to a life learning community of retired academics in Oregon.
#philtech #philsci #AIethics
Two of our members, @masssimons.bsky.social and Darryl Cressman talk about Dutch philosophy of technology at Delft! #philtech
Today in Delft to talk about the history of philosophy of technology in the Netherlands #hopot #philtech
Sometimes I know what I’m looking for but don’t know where I’ll find it. Sometimes I don’t know but then I find it. Sometimes I am not looking for anything and something finds me. As the history of science has shown, serendipity is often enriching for research and the researcher.
#philsci #philtech
Automating SOME specific aspects of research/science may be fine. Doing so uncritically or for bad reasons is not. Thinking that something being “better” (faster/cheaper/more accurate, etc.) is by itself reason enough for it to replace something that is not, is a fallacy.
#philtech #philsci
I philosophize about #AI. Nothing that I have written or will ever write will ever use it. Not bc I distrust it or bc I think it couldn’t do it. Just bc, to me, figuring out ways to do some of the things it could do is part of the beauty, privilege, fun and the point of what I do.
#philtech
Why do people think the Turing test is abt machine intelligence? It’s clearly about OUR ability to discern/tell the difference given ONLY output/behavior concerning discreet tasks. Two completely different things. If you think otherwise, you didn’t read that paper correctly.
#AIethics #philtech
The lawful/unlawful angle wrt Anthropic + DOW debate seems like a red herring: mass surveillance of American citizens could become legal, that doesn’t make it any better/desirable/moral. Autonomous weapons could be legal, that doesn’t mean AI is ready/reliable/safe for them.
#AIethics #philtech
Our deadline for abstracts for the international association for computing and philosophy is tomorrow! If you are writing on philosophy and algorithms, AI, computers, models, etc., I hope you submit your abstracts!
#philtech #philsci #ai #aiethics #philsky
I really enjoy public talks, considering the audience before hand and then their questions at the end is the best exercise to make my ideas clearer. My writing and my lecturing are unavoidably enriched by these events. Here I’m talking about #AI and Loneliness at OSU’s PRAx.
#philtech #aiethics
Second time to attend @iaseai.bsky.social Presented my thoughts on blaming AI.
This time I had one of my own students accepted—Timothy Zhang! It was super cool to have a student of mine attending an AI ethics conference.
The conference overall was great. #aisaftey #philtech
Please share. The International Association for Computing and Philosophy is one of the best communities to engage with if you are doing any philosophy (epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, etc.) related to computational technologies.
Submit your abstract!
#philsci #philsky #philtech #AIethics
🚨A reminder that IACAP’s conference call for abstracts extended deadline is on Feb.28th.
If you are writing about AI, algorithms, models, simulations, and philosophy don’t hesitate to apply and engage with our great community!
#philsci #philtech #philsky
Although this was strongly written from the #philsci perspective, I hope it’ll be useful for #philtech, #sts, or #philsky in general. The ubiquity of simulations in natural/social science, medicine, policy/politics, should make them of at least some interest to anyone doing 21st century philosophy.
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I had the pleasure of reviewing @cjbartel.bsky.social's new book *Aesthetics and Video Games* for the Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism.
Here's an illustrated thread summarising the book and my thoughts:
You can read my full review here: philpapers.org/rec/FISAAV
#philtech #games #gamestudies
I wrote a follow-up to my Cheek Media piece on AI nudifying women on X — this time addressing the misconceptions I kept seeing in the comments. For better conversations, we need shared facts. Give it a read!
open.substack.com/pub/notesfro...
#philtech #philai #aiethics
New paper 🚨
Interdisciplinarity is widely celebrated as an unqualified good in debates about AI. In this new paper, I raise a provocation: what if it's actually reinforcing the very problems it seeks to solve?
Open access:
lnkd.in/g9ajZxtk
#AIEthics #philsci #philtech
Dogmatic anthropocentric and social analysis of #AI is at best limited, at worst misguided. It gets in the way of understanding its actual capacities —and hence potential harms. Like focusing on the limitations of a jet fighter because it doesn’t fly like a hummingbird.
#philtech #AIethics #philsci
IACAP CfP extension for this year’s conference at the University of Kansas.
#philtech #philsci #AIethics
Whatever you think abt a technology, the motivations behind it, or the power dynamics of its adoption, “head in the sand” arguments are just mediocre arguments/fallacies. This is exactly what Turing called them in 1951. That’s why #AIethics is so lost. A code of ethics needs to make sense.
#philtech
Jonah Messinger just gave a great talk on these issues at HPS Cambridge. There’s a video here. #philtech #sts #philsci #HPS
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o43x...
Reposting this recent piece on gatekeeping in cold fusion, written with the physicists Jonah Messinger and Florian Metzler – they are involved in some of the most interesting current work, including an ARPA-E funded project based at MIT. #sts #philtech #philsci #HPS
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Excellent review of Inference & Representation by @guicogsci.bsky.social in Philosophy, the journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
Welcome to Bluesky, Gui!
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What is Digital Civics? This paper from 2023 outlines its 4 foundational pillars, their informing scholarship, and the 5 key concepts to developing robust digital civics initiatives.
#digitalcivics #philtech #philsky #AIEthics
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
