Krista K. Thomason
@kkthomason.bsky.social
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Philosophy professor. Find all my stuff here:
https://linktr.ee/kristakthomason
I was interviewed by the Swarthmore Bulletin about AI.
magazine.swarthmore.edu/issue/fall-2...
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A Focus on Trust
Benjamin Kuipers โ70 explores ethics for robots and other AIs that could potentially be members of human society.
https://magazine.swarthmore.edu/issue/fall-2025/a-focus-on-trust/
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"Do you have time to....?" No. I'm chair. I don't have time to do anything. I have negative time. I'm in time debt.
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ouinne
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The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.
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Big ups to
@lucyrandall802.bsky.social
who 100% saved me from writing a terrible conclusion in my second book.
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about 1 month ago
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Olรบfแบนฬmi O. Tรกรญwรฒ
about 1 month ago
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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da share z0ne
about 2 months ago
GOT A SHIRT OF THIS ONE AT
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Look at this great video promo
@cliffordsosis.bsky.social
made!
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about 2 months ago
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#Philsky
Check out this great volume edited by
@cliffordsosis.bsky.social
. It's full of weird philosophy, including a chapter by me where I defend Kant's views about lying. Use the discount code 25SMA3 to get 20%off!
2 months ago
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Frederick Douglass literally risked his life to learn how to read and you turkeys are asking AI to summarize a news article for you because you can't be bothered???
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I will never apologize for a post
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The Standard interviewed me about people being driven insane by ChatGPT. This is my new thing.
www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/ch...
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Can conversing with AI cause delusions and psychosis?
A spate of shocking breakdowns and even deaths involving AI chatbots is fuelling panic over โAI psychosisโ and new safety features. Itโs not quite that simple, say experts
https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/chatgpt-psychosis-ai-chatbots-mental-health-b1245975.html
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After ChatGPT users demanded to have the "friendly" version reinstated, I decided it was time to think a little bit about why we're looking for friendship in a chatbot in the first place
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/danc...
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Why Are We Looking for a Friend in ChatGPT?
OpenAI added new mental health guardrails to the latest ChatGPT model, yet users demanded the friendly version back. People want the convenience of a friend without the work.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dancing-with-the-devil/202508/why-are-we-looking-for-a-friend-in-chatgpt
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We have a communal pot, bought with department discretionary funds. We can buy coffee as an office supply, but sometimes people bring in a bag to share. The coffee drinkers take turns making pots. It's a good system.
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3 months ago
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Going back to my roots* *writing my papers in Garamond
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After ChatGPT users demanded to have the "friendly" version reinstated, I decided it was time to think a little bit about why we're looking for friendship in a chatbot in the first place
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/danc...
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Why Are We Looking for a Friend in ChatGPT?
OpenAI added new mental health guardrails to the latest ChatGPT model, yet users demanded the friendly version back. People want the convenience of a friend without the work.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dancing-with-the-devil/202508/why-are-we-looking-for-a-friend-in-chatgpt
3 months ago
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The downfall has been foretold by many signs, but surely one of them is displaying the estimated reading time of news articles.
3 months ago
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4 months ago
Phlogiston didn't fail, it was failed.
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Please tell me that listening to enough black/death metal will get me through being department chair. I don't care if it's a lie, just let me believe it.
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One of the things I love is that I am a literal poster child for the NHC fellowships.
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3 months ago
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Four days and counting to the new Blackbraid album. I know you are as excited as I am.
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Nerdy joke warning. ๐ I've been planning this since I first saw the Newton for Hyde sign.
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See, the problem with email is that, when you email someone, they email you back. Then you have another email to read. Has anyone looked into this problem?
4 months ago
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National Humanities Center
4 months ago
ChatGPT psychosis is real. Philosopher Krista Thomason (NHC Fellow, 2021โ22) explores how our emotional needs can lead to psychological distress when interacting with AI.
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National Humanities Center
4 months ago
The National Humanities Center welcomes fellowship applications from faculty engaged in advanced
#humanities
research at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Help us spread the word about this exciting opportunity.
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Opportunities for Scholars from HBCUs | National Humanities Center
The NHC welcomes fellowship applications from scholars engaged in advanced humanities research at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
https://bit.ly/3nT9jmA
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I'm glad to see that OpenAI is taking my advice to be more attentive to the way our emotions interact with ChatGPT (at least I hope so?)
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/danc...
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
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Philosophers (and academics) who are journal editors and organizers of conferences/workshops and such: are you receiving fewer submissions from women? I am organizing a thing and so far I am noticing a not-good trend??
#philsky
4 months ago
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What are the chances there's a fellowship I can get that will let me work in a remote monastery for at least a year?
4 months ago
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B. Otterlake
4 months ago
Wrote about what's really going on when you talk to an AI assistant
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derek guy
5 months ago
It's true that progressives valorize "ugliness." But I think this person doesn't interrogate this position enough and thus lands at the wrong conclusion. Let me give you my perspective on ugliness. ๐งต
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Just heard someone refer to a non-electronic signature as a "wet signature." No thank you.
5 months ago
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Hadas Weiss
5 months ago
"wanna get a drink tonight?" it's 8pm. "tonight" is over
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There's a certain type of academic who looks at a serious social justice issue and says, "You know what? I'm going to make a zine about this."
5 months ago
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I posted the link to my Psych Today post on LinkedIn and some AI summary bot got hold of it and generated a "key point summary" of my arguments. ๐ (Thanks to
@kashhill.bsky.social
for the awesome reporting)
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/danc...
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How Emotional Manipulation Causes ChatGPT Psychosis
There's a scary new phenomenon called ChatGPT-induced psychosis. The chatbot is causing people to break with reality because it turns our own emotional needs against us.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dancing-with-the-devil/202506/how-emotional-manipulation-causes-chatgpt-psychosis
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Perhaps you've heard that ChatGPT is causing episodes of psychosis. I decided to write about that.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/danc...
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How Emotional Manipulation Causes ChatGPT Psychosis
There's a scary new phenomenon called ChatGPT-induced psychosis. The chatbot is causing people to break with reality because it turns our own emotional needs against us.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dancing-with-the-devil/202506/how-emotional-manipulation-causes-chatgpt-psychosis
5 months ago
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"The ape description of their utopia does not begin 'First we evolve and then...' nor 'First we start to like tomatoes and crawling on the ground, and then...'" Nozick's prose is wild, I love it.
5 months ago
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6 months ago
I'm a NIMBY for Takes. Do those elsewhere please, no thank you.
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I am at my most boomer re: iced coffee. Why is all the coffee iced? When did people stop drinking hot coffee?
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I have been logged out of my toothbrush.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
6 months ago
Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes.
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Sara Protasi
6 months ago
I absolutely loved being in conversation with Samir Chopra,
@kkthomason.bsky.social
and
@jdelston.bsky.social
in this panel. I really think it's worth watching if you are interested in so-called "negative emotions"! I learned a ton.
#philsky
#philosophy
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APA On Demand: โMixed Emotions: Confronting Feelings that Get a Bad Rapโ replay now available - American Philosophical Association
The panelists for the online event were as follows:
https://www.apaonline.org/news/700877/APA-On-Demand-Mixed-Emotions-Confronting-Feelings-that-Get-a-Bad-Rap-replay-now-available.htm
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American Philosophical Association
6 months ago
If you missed the latest APA Live event, โMixed Emotions: Confronting Feelings that Get a Bad Rap,โ or want to watch it again, the replay is now available on demand:
www.apaonline.org/news/700877/...
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MIT Press
6 months ago
In an excerpt from "License to Spill,"
@rachelplotnick.bsky.social
looks back at analog telephones of the 1910s through the 1930s, the common source of outages, and the โtrouble menโ who were sent to repair phones and reform messy users:
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Teething Babies and Rainy Days Once Cut Calls Short
โTrouble menโ searched for water damage in early analog telephones
https://spectrum.ieee.org/license-to-spill
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๐๐% ๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐๐๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌโToo many people predicting success without evidence. Now some evidence is available. Businesses discover for the 11,085th time that cheapness does not pay.
fortune.com/2025/05/09/k...
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There's a lot of ontology on my feed this morning and I don't care for it.
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Have I used AI in my writing? No. Have I used AI in other work? No. Have I talked about AI w/ students? No. Do I feel a responsibility to โprepareโ students for AI? No. Do I feel bad about any of the above? No. Itโs just not a thing for me. Maybe it will be one day but until then, Iโm fine.
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Jason Moore
6 months ago
LOL
#microsoft
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Brett Karlan
6 months ago
One secret thing they never tell you about being an academic philosopher is that you can just post the journal-formatted PDF on PhilPapers. No one is going to arrest you
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Bubble water is like the minus biscuits from The Phantom Tollbooth. In the book, the more you eat, the hungrier you get. Drink one bubble water and you need another one immediately because somehow you are still thirsty.
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