As @danwphilosophy.bsky.social said www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In a new guest post at Conspicuous Cognition, Tibor Rutar reviews what the evidence actually says about the relationship between immigration and crime - and explains why it doesn't support simplistic culture war narratives. www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/in-europe-...

British politics is resembling the rest of Europe: • Multi-party competition has replaced two-party dominance • Challengers are on the rise, esp. the populist right • Political realignment centres on identity politics (incl Brexit) But FPTP is poorly suited to this fragmentation

🚨🚨NEW🚨🚨 This week’s elections raise questions about the long-term development of Welsh politics. After years of limited press coverage and voter interest, is Welsh politics finally maturing? www.thepathnottaken.net/p/welsh-poli...

New post on data centers and land use, where I go into my manifesto for why we should trust farmers less open.substack.com/pub/andymasl...

New conversation with the brilliant David Kipping focusing on the search for aliens, the Fermi paradox, the simulation argument, anthropic reasoning, the role of AI in science, whether "AGI" or “superintelligence” are imminent, and much more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUQ4...

I don't get why a bunch of people on BlueSky instantly concluded this assassination attempt was fake? I mean, like, I guess it could be, wouldn't be the strangest thing to have happened ever. But probably not, surely? What would even be the point of that? Just - why the weird conspiracy brain stuff?

🔪"And if you have been reading this smugly thinking that this is just true of those foolish people on the other side, then think again, because almost all the consequences of tribalism that we reveal in the book are symmetrical"

New guest post at 'Conspicuous Cognition' by the excellent Oxford Professor James Tilley. Very interesting findings here. www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/how-brexit...

Every system that was regulated, either explicitly or implicitly, by the fact that they were effortful for humans (letters of recommendation, government filings, essays, or, as this paper finds, lawsuits) will break under a wave of AI.

Much discussion about AI risks focuses on the dangers increasingly advanced AI systems pose to us. But what about the dangers we might pose to them? Many people think discussing "AI welfare" is absurd. I disagree! Discussion with Henry Shevlin and Rob Long here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEMf...

Join us in #Brighton in May for a Long Table experimental public forum on AI and the arts at #BrightonFestival! Artists, academics, and the public digest what AI means for the arts today. brightonfestival.org/whats-on/Xhn...

Our paper just hit 50 citations 🎯: "Political conspiracy theories as tools for mobilization and signaling", Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022, with @m-b-petersen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interesting piece here, citing among other folk the excellent @danwphilosophy.bsky.social

With Henry Shevlin, we discuss: - How we became interested in philosophy and AI - Recent advances in agentic AI - AI, politics (e.g., Anthropic vs Trump administration), and public hostility to AI www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEJG...

Thank you for the platform! I don't like the phrase 'money can't buy x' (for any x), it's just too vague and not true when taking literally. It was great to juxtapose the ideas abt wellbeing @markfabian.bsky.social and I have been developing with those of @lfitouchi.bsky.social and moral psychology.

It's largely an article of faith among center-left people that LLMs will lead to more disinformation and falsehoods, however, as @danwphilosophy.bsky.social argues, there are key ways that LLMs facilitate public beliefs in expert consensuses. This is why Elon Musk is so upset about "woke AI."

@danwphilosophy.bsky.social has the best framing I've seen of what LLMs do to public opinion—anti-social media, technocratizing, epistemically converging. I'm (mostly) with him. But "epistemically converging" is the load-bearing claim, so, some thoughts... kylesaunders.substack.com/p/expert-lev...

is it safe to come back here or will any view sympathetic to AI be met with rude/aggro replies

"Social media democratised public opinion, shifting influence away from elites and experts to ordinary people. LLMs will partly reverse this trend. They are a powerful, new technocratising force" @danwphilosophy.bsky.social www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/how-ai-wil...

This week, we talk to @pdurkee.bsky.social about status and personality. youtu.be/JdkKYiLfWog www.podbean.com/eas/pb-ax9c2... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

1/6 Excited to share the call for posters & registration for the 2nd XSCAPE Workshop: "Varieties of Externalism" ! 📅 Friday, April 10th, 2026 — Gallery Room, Bramber House, University of Sussex Registration is free but places are limited. 🧵

Really enjoyed this conversation 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Henry Shevlin and I chat with @anilseth.bsky.social about his scientific and philosophical case against conscious AI: youtu.be/wVYg8u5xjno?...

Looking forward to reading this!

In today's newsletter: According to the Doomsday Clock, we've been dancing on the edge of doom since 1947. That doesn't make sense. If there isn't any disaster year after year, you have to infer the risk was lower than you thought. 1/5 www.update.news/p/the-doomsd...

Henry Shevlin and I discuss "misinformation", propaganda, mass gullibility, advertising, social media, and deepfakes with the great Sacha Altay (@sachaltay.bsky.social). www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l5T...

Well, my New Year's resolution is to read less (seriously). But made it through lots of great books this year, including several from fields I'm less familiar with. Here are 10 books I gave 5 stars to this year along with an excerpt (usually belief-related; I have a type) from each

Yeah, imho, not enough Darwinian cynicism among those who lean heavily on cognitive/complexity (vs. strategic/motivational) accounts. But that would take a hard self-reflective reckoning with A Big Misunderstanding: www.everythingisbullshit.blog/p/a-big-misu...

What is "AGI"? How do we measure progress towards it? Does the concept even make sense? What would a post-AGI world look like? Had a lot of fun debating these and other questions with Henry Shevlin: youtu.be/SXj1UsGJGmY?...

Time to look back at my 2025 research. I published a bunch of empirical and philosophic papers (links below) but perhaps my favorite is this one. Kind of a précis for my forthcoming book. Below the other articles somewhat ranked according to how much I like them.

‘By democratising the public sphere, #socialmedia provides a platform for brilliant, heterodox thinkers who would never have achieved prominence through more traditional #media routes.’, schrijft @danwphilosophy.bsky.social. www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/is-social-...

Opposing the far right isn’t an excuse to indulge our tribal instincts (literally half my posting on this site, but better stated by @danwphilosophy.bsky.social) www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/tribalism-...

A very interesting data-rich analysis of persuasion on digital media by @benmtappin.bsky.social. Recommend! open.substack.com/pub/benmtapp...

I recently chatted with Henry Shevlin and Rose Guinrich about the psychology, social science, politics, philosophy, and ethics of human-AI "relationships". www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkqu...

Chatted with Henry Shevlin recently about why AI is a powerful tool for education that is nevertheless presenting big problems for our educational institutions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o_l...

"the prevailing negativity is a result of the particular way the discipline is institutionally organized... the overall picture of AI offered by the AI ethics community is one-sided & negatively biased... the ‘nuclear option’ would be to deliberately shrink the field of AI ethics, for its own sake"

Thrilled to have been awarded funding by @acceleratescience.bsky.social @c2d3.cam.ac.uk to develop an AI tool for interpreting dementia profiles from large-scale population modelling of neuroimaging data Big thanks to @raibethlehem.bsky.social and to the Accelerate-C2D3 team for all the support!

People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot! Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072 (There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)

I talked to Henry Shevlin about the philosophy, politics, and ethics of "Social AI" (AI companions, AI girl/boyfriends, grief bots, etc). www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzgo...

Still time to register for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology, in-person in Melbourne Nov 24-25! Check details and fab keynotes and program on the site👇 #philosophy #neuroskyence sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...

A big problem is that AI/ML models for dementia care are often limited by data unavailability and data drift when moving to the real world. This is even more important now with fast-paced technological innovations and precision medicine for dementia trials.

Very excited to be able to finally share our latest work, "Cloud computing for equitable, data-driven dementia medicine," just published in The Lancet Digital Health! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... more info in thread: 🧵

New conversation with Henry Shevlin and Andy Masley on AI and climate change, political tribalism, why so much AI discourse is so bad, the "stochastic parrot"/"glorified auto-complete" critique of ChatGPT, technological determinism, effective altruism, and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=87CW...

New conversation with Henry Shevlin and Andy Masley on AI and climate change, political tribalism, why so much AI discourse is so bad, the "stochastic parrot"/"glorified auto-complete" critique of ChatGPT, technological determinism, effective altruism, and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=87CW...

cc: everyone who panicked about Cambridge Analytica, micro-targeting, etc. There's no magic here.

This week, we discuss the evolved logic of shame, guilt, and other self-conscious emotions with Daniel Sznycer youtu.be/OkCBaBSvSzs?... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... www.podbean.com/eas/pb-xyz24...

A great job, application due November 17th. Please spread and help me with the right hashtags

Philosophers @danwphilosophy.bsky.social and Henry Shevlin just released a podcast on AI and consciousness, I enjoyed this one. This argument from Henry is close to my view.

I recently talked to Henry Shevlin (Uni of Cambridge) about artificial intelligence and consciousness: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rvw...