Thank you to my incredible department @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social!!!

I am grateful to have won the “Who’s Afraid of AI?” Student Forum and AI Commentary Contest Award yesterday! I’d like to thank the conference organizers @utoronto.ca @torontoai2025.bsky.social and my wonderful friends @masseycollege.bsky.social for their support! toronto2025.ai

🚨 New pre-print 🚨 ...by @floridi.bsky.social and me! "An Analysis of the Governance, Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Biocomputing," available at: ssrn.com/abstract=523...

New paper by Yale's Digital Ethics Center: "An analysis of the governance, ethical, legal, and social implications of biocomputing" Freely available at SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

What does it mean to be an author when using AI to produce a text? "Distant Writing: Literary Production in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" new paper freely available at SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

🚨 New pre-print 🚨 @jessrmorley.bsky.social @emmiehine.com @floridi.bsky.social Read "Global Health in the Age of AI: Charting a Course for Ethical Implementation and Societal Benefit" here: ssrn.com/abstract=521... on @ssrn.bsky.social

I have a new piece out on IAI News today about how we can use AI to scaffold human learning, co-authored with my postdoc Jessie Hall 🔬 iai.tv/articles/ai-...

The eventual fate of the GOP

Two days of conversations on state #AI policy kicking off! The Summit on State AI Legislation is bringing together state legislators, civil society, industry players, and academics to discuss #deepfakes, #elections, and more—and how state policy can help shape good AI outcomes. @yaledec.bsky.social

THIS IS A MUST-READ PIECE. Please share, off Bluesky as well as on it. Most people *do not understand* how harmful these short-sighted cuts are going to be - for our economic as well as our physical health. 🧪🛟🩺

New pre-print just dropped! Hot off the @ssrn.bsky.social press 😎 @smusab.bsky.social, @floridi.bsky.social, and I consider how AI may supplant existing mechanisms of capital punishment. We discuss moral imperatives to avoid the automation of state-sanctioned execution.

was writing my paper before I got distracted by topological qubit...

Read our new 🧠 pre-print!

Hint: it’s not about ADHD meds Glad to have written this with @atulgrovermd.bsky.social

🍿 Alone,Together: You, Me, and ChatGPT 🍿 Read my latest Substack post about the loneliness epidemic and the (increasingly unusual) ways we’re self-isolating, here: youiandai.substack.com/p/alone-toge...

I’m gonna say it…there are too many ads

Q: Why does the U.S. have different vaccine recommendations than other countries? A: Differences tend to be pretty minor. Here are five reasons why there are differences ⬇️ 1/8 🧵 @kkjetelina.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social

I'm back to writing on Substack! If you want to read about breakthrough devices, Elon Musk, and the medical market monopoly, check out my newest post, "WTF is BDD?" here: youiandai.substack.com/p/wtf-is-bdd

Some NIH study sections for tomorrow have just been canceled. Who knows which of these grants would have led to the next life-saving invention. Who knows which scientists will throw in the towel bc of funding delays. Who can even begin to measure the impact of these reckless cancellations.😕🩺🧪🛟

Our Executive Director @chinmayiarun.bsky.social Arun writes about The Silicon Valley Effect (forthcoming in the Stanford Journal of International Law) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

So-called “chatbot friends” are the culmination of what Christopher Lasch called the “culture of narcissism.” podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id10...

So the new BMJ Digital Health and AI journal is now accepting submissions bmjdigitalhealth.bmj.com/pages/about. Also both @maxi-macki.bsky.social and I are on the editorial board as Associate Editors so you know it's a cool place for your research to hang out

So far here’s a list of companies reinforcing their commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Apple Costco Bank of America Delta JP Morgan Marriott Microsoft Procter & Gamble Goldman Sachs American Airlines Southwest Airlines United Airlines Catholic Health

Joining @cnn.com in a couple minutes to talk about Xmas Eve #health news - tune in 🩺🧪🛟

🎉 UPCOMING EVENT(S) 🎉 The DEC is hosting a SPRING OPEN HOUSE! Join us on January 14th, 2025, over dinner, from 5-7 PM in Sterling Library! Registration is limited to members of the Yale community. Visit yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... for more info.

"[It's likely that] there are thousands of new [child-sexual-abuse material] images being generated a day" Discussions of open-sourcing AI need to consider the risks of harming the most vulnerable. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I'm delighted to share some amazing news 😃 Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of Tarek Sherif (Yale alumnus ’84) the Digital Ethics Center will soon launch the de Vries-Sherif Program on the Future of Humanity and Technology. More details here: forhumanity.yale.edu...

🎉 CENTER NEWS 🎉 Thanks to the generosity of Tarek Sherif ’84, the NEW de Vries-Sherif Program on the Future of Humanity and Technology will examine what it means to exist in a technology-driven world. We are beyond grateful for this opportunity! Read more: forhumanity.yale.edu/news/being-h...

Should Ai be treated as a legal person? Yes? No? Why? And what is the real, legal debate about this crucial issue, apart from sci-fi scenarios? This new chapter, freely available on SSRN, synthesises current answers: "AI as Legal Persons: Past, Patterns, and Prospects" papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

🚨 New Working Paper: AI as Legal Persons: Past, Patterns, and Prospects. With @floridi.bsky.social and Giovanni Sartor Open Access: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5032265

🚨 NEW PRE-PRINT 🚨 @claudionovelli.bsky.social, with @floridi.bsky.social and Giovanni Sartor, explore the debate on AI legal personhood, emphasizing the roles of prevailing legal theories on personhood and the impact of technological advancements. Read here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Well Done, Yale! #Yale #GoYale #BeatHarvard

Do not miss this excellent work by @jessrmorley.bsky.social It is very useful in general, not just for healthcare applications: "AI in healthcare - Owkin A to Z guide" www.owkin.com/a-z-of-ai-in...

Now that I bullied @helenwieffering.bsky.social into joining Bluesky before I would speak with her for a story, maybe you should follow her and other environmental journalists in the overflow Starter Pack.

Since everyone's new, thought I'd post my main AI resources: - AI in the NHS: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid... - Thinking critically about AI for health: drive.google.com/drive/home - Ethics of AI in health: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - Everything else: scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Pros: - Cutting-edge research - Amazing team - Close to Olmo Bagels (yummy) Cons: - Close to Olmo Bagels (you will never want to eat anywhere else for lunch) Come work with us! 🖖🤓

At the Yale DEC, we seek to develop ethical solutions, inform public opinion, and influence emerging policy initiatives in the digital sphere. This starter pack is a compilation of our people: the researchers, fellows, and affiliates working to advance our mission. go.bsky.app/JGrzCjA

Thoughtful piece from my fellow @yalesph.bsky.social faculty member Dr. Jason Schwartz on the future of ACIP & federal vaccine policy - and how to make sure we preserve science-based recommendations. Key questions include... www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

Starter pack for philosophy. If you see someone missing please tag them and ill add them. I tried to think of as many people as i could. Fyi: by following these ppl youll get a very good sense if what im interested in 😅 .. so.. you’ve been warned go.bsky.app/4XzK8DL

🎉 TEAM SPOTLIGHT 🎉 Congratulations to our outstanding researcher, @reneeasirbu.bsky.social, for being nominated to join Yale University's Wu Tsai Institute Grand Challenges in Cognition cohort! We are so proud of Renée for her interdisciplinary work at the intersection of cognition and technology.

Put together a couple of starter packs for the digital ethics/Internet research crowd! First up: Digital Ethics Center of the Universe feat. the brilliant researchers of the @yaledec.bsky.social (and friends): bsky.app/starter-pack... #philtech #philsci #AcademicSky #ai

good for him! work-life balance is so important

"Why the AI Hype is Another Tech Bubble" has been published in Philosophy & Technology Volume 37, article number 128, (2024) Here is the open access: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Competition and ideological pluralism, within limits, are both valuable democratic principles. Thus, I'll keep my X unless it further deteriorates. That said, I’ve had @bsky.app for a while but haven’t used it much; to introduce myself, here’s a thread of articles I co-wrote with colleagues in 2024.

Hi Bluesky! If you don't know me. I'm postdoc @yaledec.bsky.social with @floridi.bsky.social previously BA, MSc, PhD @universityofoxford.bsky.social & policy wonk @bennettoxford.bsky.social. I 🔬 health data/AI policy. More: www.linkedin.com/in/jessicaro... & scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Allow me to re-introduce myself... I'm a tech ethics & governance researcher @yaledec.bsky.social and former software engineer. I think a lot about AI, XR, and the state of the tech industry. And also other things, like climbing and baking 💻🧗🍞 #AcademicSky

Thrilled to be awarded the Slavin Family Foundation fellowship, which provides mentorship and a grant of $5,000 to students pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors. A huge thank you to @floridi.bsky.social and @yaledec.bsky.social for their support.

Hi Bluesky! I'm a researcher at @yaledec.bsky.social with a background in human biology, ethics, and policy. I care about human-machine interaction, AI/ML software as a medical device, and the postmortem digital landscape. Say hi here, on LinkedIn, or Substack! 🤓

Join me and Santa Clara University for a talk this Friday on "Rethinking Human Rights in the Age of #AI and XR"! Register here: scu.zoom.us/meeting/...