I've been looking for the reference for this quote: "Whoever controls the people's fears becomes master of their souls", presumably by Niccolo Machiavelli, but I could not find any sentence looking like that in his work. Does anyone know the reference? #PhilSky archive.org/details/nicc...

Hello #Philsky, I'm looking for a university level class on the Phenomenology of Spirit in Paris area this year. Have you heard of any class of this kind ? #Hegel

This is the exact place in Clermont-Ferrand (France) where philosopher Blaise Pascal was born in 1623. The only indication I found is a pub called Café Pascal. Geographically speaking, the house was actually where the lampost is. 1/3

Trump en guerre contre les IA woke : «Oui, ces outils ont des biais, mais…» Interview de @remyd.bsky.social par @reminoyon.bsky.social www.nouvelobs.com/monde/202507... "Dans la mesure où elles apprennent de nous, les IA contemporaines apprennent même l’inavouable, voire le pire."

Excellent paper by @bernardokastrup.bsky.social, I really enjoyed reading it, but I still have a few questions. Why "analytic" idealism (and not just "idealism")? What are "transpersonal, non-perceptual experiential states" (how can they be non-perceptual and experiential at the same time)?

Hey #PhilSky, what is the #1 reference in philosophy of technology you think about when you hear "Panoptic" (besides Foucault)?

I completely forgot to tell you that I'll be in Geneva 🇨🇭 tonight to talk about generative AI and writing with Dora Formica, Pascal Nordmann, and Patrick Morier-Genoud. Feel free to come say hi ! #GenAI #Books #Editing #Comics m-r-l.ch/evenement/li...

🖨️ New translation. My paper in @aoc-media.bsky.social (France) has just been published in English on HAL: "AI Transgresses Our Spheres of Justice and That Might Be Its Greatest Danger" 👉 hal.science/hal-05024707 #PhilSky #AIEthics

History of philosophy over and over : - Philosophy : It's not possible. - Science : Look, it is. - Pholosophy : ... - Science : ... - Philosophy : Yes, but under which conditions do you know it is? #PhilSky #PhilSci

Glad to share the paper on #XAI I just published (French) in the Italian journal Lessico di Etica Pubblica: "What don’t you understand? Language games and black box algorithms". If you like Quine, Wittgenstein and deep learning, it's for you. #PhilSky #PhilSci www.eticapubblica.it/remy-demiche...

C'est un honneur que "L'intelligence artificielle, ses biais et les nôtres" soit dans les bibliothèques de la @villedeparis.bsky.social. C'est à peine croyable que des personnes l'empruntent. Et c'est drôle de voir qu'il l'est à Mohammed Arkoun où une bonne partie a été écrite. #PhilSky #Paris5

Just as a reminder, if you're wondering whether it was a nazi salute, here are some of them from 2016 shouting "Hail Trump !". So you'd rather be careful whenever you raise your right arm as a #Trump supporter, whatever the intent. #Musk youtu.be/1o6-bi3jlxk?...

I completely forgot to tell you that my paper published in The Conversation (France) has been translated in English an is available on #arXiv. 👉 "The Hermeneutic Turn of AI: Are Machines Capable of Interpreting?" #PhilSci #PhilSky #LLM arxiv.org/abs/2411.12517

Intelligence artificielle : l’Agence France-Presse et l’entreprise française Mistral signent un accord

Le Spiil apporte son soutien à @arialavrilleux.bsky.social et @disclosengo.bsky.social et dénonce une nouvelle atteinte contre le secret des sources des journalistes, un principe garanti par un réglement européen www.spiil.org/s/position/c...

How @lemonde.fr is using AI. Very interesting article. Seems like the most impactful use case will be translation. I hope it will lead to the europeanisation of the media industry, but still with professional journalists to proofread the articles. #Press

Beware of dog 2.0. Seen today in Neuilly (Paris' suburb). #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #Security

Fascinating and crystal clear paper on a complex subject: Arthur Mensch, co-founder of Mistral AI. We sense some jealousies and a bit of technochauvinism... #AIEthics #Tech #GenAI #AIAct www.liberation.fr/economie/eco...

Glad to share that I have been invited by University Paris Nanterre's library to moderate a talk on "AI : Fate or Opportunity?", with Fabrizio Defilippi (lecturer) and Laura Sibony ("Fantasia", Grasset 2023). On Tuesday, November 5th. We will discuss a lot with the audience !

I'm deeply grateful to still see this book on the shelves. It's only been four months but so much happened meanwhile. Here at L'Arbre à lettres, in Paris near Bastille. #PhilSci #AIEthics

Existential and long-term risks are really not what should worry us so much with AI. Sphere transgression is a much bigger and closer one. #AIEthics #PhilSky #PhilSci aoc.media/opinion/2024...

Next reading's on the table ! #Crypto #PhilSci

Argument against the idea that tech eases our lives : I feel like the phone numbers I had to remember before cell phones have been replaced by a tremendous amount of passwords that I actually have to reset most of the time because I can't remember them all. #Tech #PhilSci #Internet

Fascinating state of the art on the Turing Test (and easy-to-read) ! #AI #GenAI #PhilSky #CogSci www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A short state of the art on the biases in artificial intelligence (#LLM specifically), and so grateful it was on page one of Les Echos : "AI isn't finished with biases" #Ethics #PhilSci #GenAI

Sorry but I cannot not think about Cronos (Goya) when I see the Pillars of the creation (Webb). #Rorschach

I can't believe this book made it to Vrin, the bookstore for #philosophy in front of Sorbonne University where I used to go as a student. This is such an honor ! #PhilSky #PhilSci

Huge thanks to TV5 Monde, Mohamed Kaci and its team for the invitation to talk about "L'Intelligence artificielle, ses biais et les nôtres" (Faubourg, 2024). #ArtificialIntelligence #PhilSci #AIEthics www.tv5monde.com/tv/video/727...

Kind reminder to my network #AIEthics #PhilSci #PhilSky

AI is taking an interpretative turn, mostly thanks to #CriticalAI and works on biases, but also because of imaging technologies and natural language processing as I argue in this piece (and like Don Ihde did on the imaging part). #NLP #Hermeneutics #PhilSky theconversation.com/lia-est-elle...

Fascinating roundtable on #AIEthics and humanism at Collège des Bernardins, in Paris (FR). I'll remember that one risk of #GenAI is to cancel the friction that creates alterity and how much we need to listen to others in the age of AI, when we listen only what we expect.

What could possibly go wrong? #AIEthics #GPT decrypt.co/231160/opena...

Intelligence artificielle : « Le piège de l’effet rebond »

After 6 years of research in #AIEthics, countless years of studying philosophy and six month of cutting my thesis into pieces, the result will be presented on June 12th at Librairie Monte en l'air, 7pm, Paris : L'Intelligence artificielle, ses biais et les nôtres. www.eventbrite.fr/e/lancement-...

#philsci people, I think I have found paradise! (Cité des Sciences, Paris)

I am really wondering what a subjective experience is if it is not made of qualia... would it be only access-consciousness? But the "what it feels like" matters in our decision process, doesn't it? #Philosophy #Mind #GenAI m.youtube.com/watch?v=kCre...

See you on Tuesday at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, to talk about spheres of justice and AI ethics.

Now that I have defended my dissertation and am not allowed anymore to have access to this very special place, I will talk about one of the most well kept secret of PhD students in Paris, France. #Sorbonne 1/3

Le vent tourne. La start-up BRIA lève 24 millions de dollars pour développer un modèle (et business model) d'IA générative qui rémunérera les banques d'images utilisées pour l'apprentissage automatique. Getty et Publicis sont de la partie.

Jeudi 21 mars, de 14h à 16h dans l’amphithéâtre C1 du bâtiment Zazzo, à l'Université Paris Nanterre, j'aurai l'immense plaisir de présenter cette conférence sur l'Intelligence artificielle et la conscience. Venez nombreux, c'est gratuit et ouvert à tout le monde ! #Philsci #Philosophy

Unbelievable, LinkedIn suspended this post where I talk about an article I wrote on a collective complaint against Coinshares and the founders of the NPX crypto. LinkedIn didn't say why. Its appeal procedure is a mess and I couldn't go through. I wonder if they have even read the DSA.

Locking myself in the French national library on a sunny afternoon, it's the life I choose.

With AI is this the beginning of something like the dot com bubble ?

After many weeks, I finally finished reading this book by Sorbonne philosopher Daniel Andler (362 p. without references) : "Intelligence artificielle, intelligence humaine : la double énigme". It is interesting on philosophy of mind:...

Am I right of being worried by this article in the AI Act? If I understand it right, it gives permission to authorities to use facial recognition to infer "race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation"???

Reading list ! All published in 2023.

Des nouvelles de X. Ça fait quelque chose comme 12 ans que j'y suis. Il ne me reconnaît plus et je ne suis pas le seul dans ce cas apparemment.

Fascinating talk on AI regulation at ENS Paris with Isabelle Ryl, Raja Chatila, Camilla Benzo and Thierry Poibeau.

C'est une énorme nouvelle pour le secteur : Microsoft signe un accord avec la principale fédération syndicale des Etats-Unis. Il ouvre la possibilité pour les employés de se syndiquer et discuter des orientations concernant l'intelligence artificielle. 1/3