From claims about implementing consciousness to arguments about cognitive architecture & ChatGPT, 'Great Philosophical Objections to Artificial Intelligence' introduces the philosophy of AI. Order: https://bit.ly/4poIMLh Preview: https://bit.ly/3YXvieO Exam/Inspection copies available

In the midst of massive anti-regime protests, Iran’s govt has completely disconnected the country from the global Internet. www.kentik.com/analysis/ira...

The CFP for #AoIR2025 in Mexico City is now posted. The theme is "Regeneration(s)". Submissions are due March 1. aoir.org/aoir2026/aoi...

Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

Our third @acm-sigchi.bsky.social Research Ethics Committee column is live! With @cfiesler.bsky.social and @vitak.bsky.social, we examine how ethics intersects with SIGCHI peer review, and how to better embed it into community practice. doi.org/10.1145/3778...

Once again.

"Friedberg visited Rhode Island Hospital on Saturday night, where she said she spoke with her teaching assistant, who had traveled there to support several of their injured students." Wow, the TA was present at the shooting and then went with students in the class to hospital to support.

Northeastern is hiring in Ethics and Health! The job is tenure track with great colleagues in a great city. Philosophers of science, bioethicists, research ethicists, and STS scholars, please apply! Soft deadline is December 15th. philjobs.org/job/show/30469

did it in four words hemmingway

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. Please please please please stop giving me news articles about blog posts about AI that include images of blue data and robot hands. betterimagesofai.org

i keep reading "it's giving tuesday" and reading it the wrong way.

And another gem from the summer: Nicholas Proferes @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social @kthorson.bsky.social @ankolika.bsky.social Chia-Fang Chang and Ava Francesca Battocchio write about the rhetoric of localism in platform content moderation. Read more here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”

Way back in 1947, Alan Turing had thoughts on how AI would influence the demand for skilled labor. (via Matteo Pasquinelli 2023 _The Eye of the Master_)

We're hiring tenure-track Asst Prof Philosophy. Good people, great research and teaching. AOS applied ethics broadly construed. AOCs open. Teach bioethics, ethics of AI, undergrad, graduate certificate in Ethical Dimensions of AI, planned Masters Bioethics. philjobs.org/job/show/30245 #philsky

Worth reading: "The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here" by Damon Beres www.theatlantic.com/... #GenerativeAI

NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.

If you donate to your local food bank remember your employer might match your donations and double them. Every month I send $50 and they get $100

So baseball again in a few hours, right?

Do...do stadiums serve breakfast?

googling 'how do you win baseball'

lol game 4 is later today

Sisyphus would love this game.

OK so you know the gag on the Simpsons when Sideshow Bob is stepping on the rakes, it's funny, then it's too much, then it's terrible, then it's transcendently hilarious this baseball game

RIP david lynch you would have loved a baseball stadium full of people slowly losing their minds

Sports people. Do you realize what time it is? Go to bed.

Sandy Koufax now making his way toward the Dodger bullpen

wow 12 innings of baseball that's almost ten miles on the 101

This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball

🇳🇴 I'm in Bergen for #CSCW25 🇳🇴 This Wednesday, in the "Content Moderation" session, I'll present my paper about how Reddit moderators are grappling with AI-Generated Content. I'm honored that it received a Best Paper Honorable Mention 🤓 If you're here too, let's connect! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

Is AI actually a sound social investment? Or a net drain of value? Come to Edinburgh and help us @braiduk.bsky.social develop a more holistic and rigorous methodology for measuring AI’s real worth!

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Electricity now costs 267% more (!!) for 1 month vs. what it cost 5 years ago near data center hotspots. Awesome reporting from Josh Saul @dinabass.bsky.social Leonardo Nicoletti @naurtorious.bsky.social Demetrios Pogkas (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

words have (different) meaning(s according to which discourse communities are deploying them and to what rhetorical purposes)!!!

8% of US adults say they have no close friends www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

September’s post in the APA Blog’s “Teaching and Learning Video Series” is a very fun consideration of our intuitions about the threshold for moral status by way of an iconic scene from “The Good Place.” Thanks @profprof.bsky.social! blog.apaonline.org/2025/09/17/c...

fellow loud music enjoyers: ho99o9's new album is fantastic.

4S folks: if you are looking for something to do post conference, Ada’s technical books is worth a visit. adasbooks.com

Aaaaand the main business case for consumer LLMs is revealed. It's for gathering data on users, creating profiles, and targeting us with ads and propaganda. Hooray -- it's Web 2.0 with chatbots!

What is it going to take to get companies to care about this and do something? It's been a tough day reading this great report by @kashhill.bsky.social on the risks of chatbots. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Called it guard.io/labs/scamlex...