Are we getting #AI all wrong? 🤖 It’s not just a tool… but is it a social agent? Our old #ethics can’t keep up. This book introduces “inbetweenism” — a bold new framework for the blurry space between machine and moral status 🌍 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Now it can only be a matter of days before my book sees the light of day and hopefully finds some human readers! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb... I would be delighted if some of you would suggest their libraries to include it in their collections.

I'm delighted that @journalphp.bsky.social is the home of this paper, born out of the long-standing & extremely fruitful collaboration between @keithfrankish.com & Daniel Dennett. Open access! doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy (soon to appear in our special issue on Dennett's Powerful Ideas)

With this brief editorial, I present our special issue on Dennett's Powerful Ideas, due out very soon in @journalphp.bsky.social. I'm very pleased with the quality and variety of contributions we received! doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

This thread gave me a boost of hope I really needed this week

NeurIPS reviewers typically review 6+ papers, each with 100 or so citations. The reviewers can't possibly check that every citation is real. But why don't we have an automated way to do this checking (and desk-rejecting if fake citations found) *before* the papers are sent to reviewers?

Look at this CFP for a Topical Collection of Synthese: link.springer.com/journal/1122... Deadline: July,31, 2026

A good way to start the new year: Read the great anthology edited by Raul Hakli, Sven Nyholm, Marco Nørskov, Sladjana Nørskov doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Looking forward!

New book in draft: AI and Consciousness [link in thread] This book is a skeptical overview of the literature on AI and consciousness. Anyone who emails me comments on the entire manuscript will be thanked in print and receive an appreciatively signed hard copy.

You may enjoy PhiDOS, an ONLINE EVENT for discussing | exchanging news & ideas | networking with other researchers: --> 9 October 2025 from 5 pm (CET) to 6 pm TOPIC: Different perspectives on the (post)phenomenological debate on digitization Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Can AI systems have free will? - das fragt unser Mitglied @clist.bsky.social im folgenden #OpenAccess - Artikel: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #KI #AI #KuenstlicheIntelligenz #ArtificialIntelligence #FreierWille #FreeWill #Philosophy #Philosophie

Our article is finally published! "Against AI welfare: Care practices should prioritize living beings over AI" 🎉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Thank you so much to my incredible co-authors1 #AIethics #ArtificialIntelligence #PhilosophyOfAI #AIWelfare #EnvironmentalEthics

In the middle of the night, the second issue of the new open access journal P&D, Philosophy & Digitality, was published: A special Issue on LLMs and the Patterns of Human Language Use journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/ph...

The AI Con book tour continues! June 30: Alex in Berlin July 1: Emily in Melbourne July 16: Emily in Cambridge Details: thecon.ai/events/ w/@alexhanna.bsky.social

I am really looking forward to reading this book - this Element is free online from 9th June 2025 - 23rd June 2025

hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice) ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...

Latest papers: Joshua Rust explores what a predictive processing account would look like if it began at the beginning of an evolutionary process doi.org/10.1080/0951...

I don't aim to create a digital replica of myself, but I can't stop thinking about digital replicas. In this paper, Jurgis Karpus and I explore the extent to which one may say that slivers of the original person live on in their digital replica. Open Access at link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Die USA zeigen, wie hilflos Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen auf den Angriff der #Trump-Autokraten reagieren. Die Wahrheit ist: Die deutschen #Wissenschaftsinstitutionen wären nicht besser vorbereitet. Im #WiardaBlog: www.jmwiarda.de/2025/02/24/a...

Apply for this conference and we can discuss online! trustaimedicine.weebly.com/5icph.html

Excellent interview of @neddo.bsky.social (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1f...)

I've written a poem in memory of Dan Dennett, based loosely on Auden's elegy for W B Yeats and full of references to Dan's philosophy. I'd like to place it with a literary magazine, online or print. Can anyone suggest one that might like this kind of thing, please? (DM if you'd like to see the poem)

Thinking of Dan aeon.co/essays/as-re...

Reminder: Nov 5 deadline to express for PhD students and postdocs in philosophy to express interest in remotely attending my Winter Quarter grad seminar on Robot, Alien, and AI consciousness. schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2024/10/join...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1.472.064!

A workshop on 23-24 Sept titled "Social Cognition and Agency: Being Human in the Age of AI." with a great lineup of people. Cameron Buckner, Anna Strasser, Corey Maley, Eric Schwitzgabel, Sven Nyholm, Caroline Arruda, David Tamez. FREE to attend!! philevents.org/event/show/1.... #philtech #philsky

I will give a talk at a workshop (organized by Syed AbuMusab) with a great line-up, including Eric Schwitzgebel, Sven Nyholm, Cameron Buckner, Caroline Arruda, Corely Maley, David Tamez ONLINE – September 23 & 24 Join us & register at i2s-research.ku.edu/social-cogni...

YOU ARE ALL WELCOME TO the hybrid BOOK LAUNCH of "Anna's AI Anthology. How to live with smart machines?" 7 OCTOBER 2024, 8 pm (Berlin time) REGISTER HERE: forms.gle/M1KYVgpVCPKf... more information at: www.denkwerkstatt.berlin/NEXT-EVENT-B...

“Anna’s AI anthology” made its way to the book fair of the world congress of philosophy in Rome: If you want to buy a copy follow this link www.xenomoi.de/philosophie/...

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Register at Robophilosophy 2024 (hybrid event): events.au.dk/robophilosop... SOCIAL ROBOTS WITH AI: PROSPECTS, RISKS, AND RESPONSIBLE METHODS *great line-up including @davidchalmers.bsky.social @eschwitz.bsky.social @melaniemitchell.bsky.social @davidgunkel.bsky.social

CALL FOR REGISTRATION (Berlin & online: August 29-30, 2024) Save your place (online or in person) for the hybrid workshop 'LLMs and the Patterns of Human Language Use'. Just fill in the registration form on the website: www.denkwerkstatt.berlin/LLMs-in-Berlin @j2bryson.bsky.social

I am proud to announce the release of "Anna's AI Anthology. How to live with smart machines" with essays by Dennett, Frankish, Schwitzgebel, Nyholm, Shevlin, and many others and an accompanying graphic novel. PLEASE share widely 😊 and order at www.xenomoi.de/philosophie/...

I am very excited to announce the release of Anna's AI Anthology for May and would like to thank all authors for their contributions! Preorders are already possible: www.xenomoi.de/philosophie/...

CFP – hybrid workshop 'LLMs and the patterns of human language use' in Berlin DEADLINE: 15.4.2024 We invite contributions that contribute to a better understanding of the potential of LLM applications. For details: www.denkwerkstatt.berlin/NEXT-EVENT

Berlin people: There is another interesting talk at the Urbayn www.momo-berlin.de/.../chinese-....

rp2024.org Please share this CFP widely! Robophilosophy Conference: SOCIAL ROBOTS WITH AI: PROSPECTS, RISKS, AND RESPONSIBLE METHODS in Aarhus, Denmark, from August 20-23, 2024.   * deadline for proposals for workshops/panels: January 31 for short papers and posters: February 15

This summer, Josh Rust and I gave a talk at the Social Ontology conference, now you can download the resulting paper 'Group survival factors' ➡️ denkwerkstatt.berlin/ANNA-STRASSE... The song by the Little River Band inspired us. 🙃https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Lz9fC-u7Es

und mal wieder etwas für alle, die gerne mal etwas in Deutsch lesen wollen: 'Soziale Roboter: Schuld ohne Strafe' file:///Users/annastrasser/Downloads/Anna%20Strasser%202022%20Schuld%20ohne%20Strafe.pdf (wird im Februar bei Mentis erscheinen)

New paper in draft: Anna Strasser and I explore the spectrum between asociality and full-blown cognitively sophisticated joint action. Our interactions with Large Language Models are already what Anna and I call "quasi-social". schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2023/11/quas...

For all who want to improve their German language skills, on 12 of December there will be a hybrid talk in German! www.denkwerkstatt.berlin/NEXT-EVENT John Michael (Mailand): Der moralische Sinn: Ein minimaler Ansatz Datum: 12.12.2023 (20:00–22:00) Ort: Kulturcafé URBAYN, Berlin oder online

This book is at the top of my reading list!

I'm excited to give the last SFI Community Lecture of 2023: "The Future of AI" (because we AI folks are so good at predicting the future of our field ☺️) Wed. Nov. 15, 7:30pm Mountain Time. And yes, it will be livestreamed on SFI's YouTube channel! lensic.org/events/the-f...

… and put it on your reading list!!!

For all who want to improve their German language skills, here is a talk in German ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuZD... #philtech

And the recording of my talk at the Weizenbaum conference can be found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkOC...

This time something for people who are able to read French: This is the first time I am mentioned in French Press: Chatbots de Meta: la grande illusion de la personnalité des IA f24.my/9p8X.X via @france24.bsky.social (@keithfrankish.bsky.social @opheliaderoy.bsky.social)

Now Available open access. "Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond." mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546157

Everyone who speaks German is welcome to join my online talk about 'How to live with 'intelligent' machines?' on Monday (16 November) at 8 pm (Berlin time) www.momo-berlin.de/veranstaltun...