Attention philosophers, x-philosophers and moral psychologists - I'm hiring! Two, 3-year research fellowships on an interdisciplinary project in the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab at the Uehiro Institute, Oxford. Pass it on! For more info and to apply: tinyurl.com/mrwwuyaw

A senior staff scientist at Google’s artificial intelligence laboratory DeepMind, Alexander Lerchner, argues in a new paper that no AI or other computational system will ever become conscious.

Issue 29.2 of M/C Journal, 'twitter', is now live and free on the M/C Journal site. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we did creating it. 🩵🩵🩵 journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc...

The most interesting finding from our survey with @askhistorians.bsky.social is a relationship between someone's belonging and a sense of AI use. The more someone thinks AI is being used, the lower they rank their sense of belonging. This may help explain how AI contributes to community collapse.

🥁🥁🥁 Newly out from us today in Science Advances: “Biased AI Writing Assistants Shift Users’ Attitudes on Societal Issues”. Large Language Models are providing users with autocomplete writing suggestions on many platforms. Could these suggestions shift users’ own attitudes? (spoiler: YES) (1/7)

Really enjoying the smooth jazz before paper sessions start at CHI.

Apparently there is *no way for authors to opt out of AI generated podcasts* displayed prominently on the ACM digital library publication page. #chi2026

Do #CHI2026 authors that had an AI podcast made of their paper on the ACM Digital Library have any way to have it removed? Are they aware their work has been used in this way?

📣 We're excited that the program for this year’s #GESISfallseminar in Computational Social Science is out & registration is now open! 🗓️ 31 Aug – 29 Sep 2026 📍 GESIS Mannheim or online More info at gesis.org/fallseminar. Full program & registration at t1p.de/FallSeminar2026-Program. @gesis.org

All recent posts in the APA Blog's reanimated "Teaching and Learning Video Series" can be found here. This quoted post is my initial series reintroduction, and I will add posts to this thread as they are published. Please reach out if you are interested in contributing to the series.

“Internal researchers can observe patterns, risks, and harms at a scale and level of precision that is simply unavailable to outside scholars.” metasinternalresearch.org

This puts its finger on it: “‘Once a computer can use computers, you’re off to the races,’ Dean Ball, a senior fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation, told me.”

Why Consent Is Broken for Privacy and AI danielsolove.substack.com/p/why-consen...

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

I love the Olympics

I totally missed this, but it seems like First Monday is closing down as of May after 30 years of publication. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

"The reason these aspects of our jobs have been so challenging to automate is that they rely on something even more precious than our time: namely, our capacity for scientific decision-making. It is worth considering what we lose when we cede that—and our agency—to machines."

Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net

Join us in Frankfurt or online: "Social Media Access Days" - Social media data between research and infrastructure – sustainable archiving, cataloguing and access. March 17-19. Featuring a keynote by @snurb.info. Full program and registration details at: www.dnb.de/EN/Kulturell...

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

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