@svennyholm.bsky.social re Merkel's selfie with a robot, these pictures are from 2016. I bet you could literally find a selfie with an (MC) Hammer statue if he's in Madame Tussauds' (probably not by Merkel though.)

I am advertising two PhD positions in philosophy -- one for a domestic student, one for an international student. Both positions are 1 + 3 years, meaning that the first year is an MRes and the next three years are for the PhD. www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

So I've updated an earlier blogpost to explain limit-case arguments. In "Robots Should Be Slaves", I intended to be entirely agnostic about whether we COULD build persons. That question is irrelevant, because even if we could, it would be moral catastrophe. joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2015/10/clon...

Great line up for our Digital Duplicates workshop at @NUS_CBmE, co-organised and co-sponsored with our friends at University of Bucharest, including Cristina and Voinea and Mihaela Constantinescu 😊

Are you teaching or taking an ethics of technology course this fall? Whether or not you're using my *This is Technology Ethics* book, you might find this 10-episode podcast (w/ the same title as the book) by ‪@johndanaher.bsky.social‬ & me useful: technologyethicspod.wordpress.com #aiethics

Thank you to our great Munich Center for Machine Learning (@munichcenterml.bsky.social) for featuring me in this research film! Lots of great films clips with my MCML colleagues are available on MCML's YouTube channel. #ai #aiethics #mcml #philosophy youtu.be/KUqiY8o1yng?...

🎥 Who gets the credit, or the blame, when AI makes decisions? Sven Nyholm ( #LMU/ #MCML) reflects on how AI challenges our ideas of agency, credit, and blame — and why we need new ways of thinking about authorship, justice, and decision-making. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUqi... #AI #Ethics

This Friday, July 18 at 11:00 AM (CEST), we are excited to be co-hosting a virtual talk with @hlrs-hpc.bsky.social featuring Prof. Dr. Sven Nyholm from LMU Munich on: The Ethics of AI Agents: Advanced AI Assistants, the “Next Big Thing” in AI Ethics? 👉 Join us: www.hlrs.de/event/the-et...

"Instrumental, Intrinsic, and Functional Scarcity" - new commentary on @johndanaher.bsky.social and my "Digital duplicates and the scarcity problem: Might AI make Us less scarce and therefore less valuable?", by @katsunorimiyahara.bsky.social & Hayate Shimizu: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Coming soon: *Social Robots and Cultural Sustainability*, edited by Raul Hakli, me, Marco Nørskov & Sladjana Nørskov. Featuring chapters by @coeckelbergh.bsky.social, @davidgunkel.bsky.social @annapuzio.bsky.social etc. Planned publication date: Oct 27, 2025 www.amazon.com/Culturally-S... #aiethics

Out now: A Companion to Applied Philosophy of A (edited by Regina Müller & Martin Hähnel), featuring my contribution "The Future of Human Responsibility: AI, Responsibility Gaps, and Asymmetries Between Praise and Blame": doi.org/10.1002/9781... #aiethics #philosophy

Some members of my network - or their (former) students - might be interested in this PhD opportunity in the ethics of foundation models. The hosting institution is the Dublin City University's Institute of Ethics. More info here: www.dcu.ie/ethics/news/... #aiethics #phdposition #philosophy

***Coming up next week (June 3-5): the 2025 Munich Lectures in Ethics: Professor David Enoch (Oxford/Hebrew University of Jerusalem) on "Autonomy, Consent, Liberalism". With commentators Prof. Dorothea Gädeke, Prof. Rae Langton & Prof. Robert Simpson. More info here: eveeno.com/MLE25 #philosophy ***

Great PhD opportunity w/ my great former colleagues at Utrecht University's ethics institute that many members of my network or their (former) students might be interested in: share.note.sx/0xcki98a#2+z... #aiethics #phdposition #phdopportunity #philosophy #technology #ethics

Great post-doc opportunity with my great former colleagues at Utrecht University's ethics institute that many members of my network or their (former) students might be interested in: share.note.sx/ee96mk24#ifT... #aiethics #ethics #technology #postdoc #philosophy

Coming up soon - on June 16 & 17: The Paris Conference on AI & Digital Ethics: paris-conference.com With a great line-up of speakers, taking place at the Sorbonne. Register here: paris-conference.com/payment-regi... Hope to see many of you there! #aiethics

Out now: the June 2025 issue of the Journal of the American Philosophical Association, featuring "Can Chatbots Preserve Our Relationships with the Dead?" by Steve Campbell, Pengbo Liu, and me: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #aiethics #Philosophy

Can AI chatbots be our friends? Along with other researchers, I weigh in on this question in this interesting @huffpost.com article by Brittany Wong, in response to a recent interview w/ Mark Zuckerberg on this topic (see below): www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-z... #aiethics

"Can Chatbots Preserve Our Relationships with the Dead?", short blog post by Steve Campbell (@campbellsm.bsky.social), Pengbo Liu, & me about our recent article w/ the same title: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20... #aiethics

Here's a thing very long in the making. Several years, in fact. Judging from my own experience, there is still a need to thoroughly evaluate whether, how, and to what extent we should use generative AI in research. Really appreciate input on this preprint! 🙏 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #ai

Great post-doc opportunity in the ethics of AI in Graz in Professor Markus Kneer's group: jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/2deb... #aiethics #postdoc #postdocopportunity

A job opportunity many members of my network might be interested in: "Lecturer in Philosophy (Artificial Intelligence and Data) (Education and Research)", at the University of Exeter: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML775/l... #aiethics #philosophy #lectureship #job

Ethics of AI post-doc opportunity with an experimental angle, w/ my colleague Ophelia Deroy & her team (@opheliaderoy.bsky.social). Please share w/ anybody who might be interested: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d... #aiethics #postdoc #xphi (Ping @xphilosopher.bsky.social perhaps you know someone?)

"Artefacts of Change: The Disruptive Nature of Humanoid Robots Beyond Classificatory Concerns", new paper by Dr. Cindy Friedman: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #aiethics

"The Rise of Chatbot "Friends"" - great article on Vox com by Angela Chen, partly based on an interview with me as well as paper by me & Lily Frank, also featuring @johndanaher.bsky.social, among others: www.vox.com/future-perfe... #aiethics #philosophy

And thank you, Sven, for posting a link to this! Congratulations, Dr Friedman! :-)

Congratulations to Dr. Cindy Friedman, who successfully defended her excellent PhD thesis yesterday! I and the whole supervision team are all very proud of you. Check out Cindy's dissertation ("The Ethics of Humanoid Robots") here: research-portal.uu.nl/ws/portalfil... #aiethics #philosophy

"Human-Centered AI workshop with Sven Nyholm: The Ethics of AI Agents/Advanced AI Assistants, the “Next Big Thing” in AI Ethics?": cdh.uu.nl/event/human-... #AIethics

The 3rd edition of The Paris Conference on AI & Digital Ethics is happening on June 16-17. #CfP is open until March 15. I'm on the scientific committee w/ many great colleagues. Please share w/ ppl who might be interested. More info here: paris-conference.com #aiethics

Thanks to Prague's Center for Environment and Technology Ethics for hosting me recently. Here's a video recording of my talk "Personalized Imitation Games: Permissibility, Desirability, and the Ethics of Digital Duplicates": youtu.be/rmW03a68RIM?... #ai #philosophy

Out now: Korean translation of my book This is Technology Ethics: An Introduction, featuring a new foreword written especially for the Korean edition. Many thanks to the translators Junsik Yoon & Joseph HB Park! More info here (in Korean!): www.aladin.co.kr/shop/wproduc... #aiethics #philosophy

Great post-doc opportunity at KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in the ethics of AI/digitalization that might be of interest to many members of my network or their (former) students: www.ku.de/fileadmin/19... #aiethics #philosophy #postdoc #postdocposition

"The achievement gap thesis reconsidered: artificial intelligence, automation, and meaningful work" - new paper by Lucas Scripter that engages extensively with the idea of the achievement gap that @johndanaher.bsky.social & I wrote about in our 2021 paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #aiethics

Online now: "Can Chatbots Preserve our Relationships with the Dead?" (Journal of the American Philosophical Association) my new article with Steve Campbell & Pengbo Liu. Spoiler alert: we argue "no": www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #aiethics #philosophy

Very happy to be joining Science and Engineering Ethics as an associate editor! I'll be focusing AI and ethics with @svennyholm.bsky.social and the rest of the team! Submit your best work and help us promote the academic treatment of AI ethics! 🙌

Folks we are actually starting early modern philosophy on the podcast tomorrow! I will kick off the coverage of the 17-18th centuries by asking, along with Kant, Foucault, Jonathan Israel and others: what the heck is Enlightenment, anyway? #philsky #enlightenment #earlymodern #hopwag

Science and Engineering Ethics has a new special focus area on the Ethics of AI. I'm the area editor. We have been publishing many ethics of AI articles already, of course, but are now making this into an even more focused area for the journal: link.springer.com/collections/... #aiethics #philosophy

"Digital Duplicates and Collective Scarcity" - new paper by my @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social & @munichcenterml.bsky.social colleague Ben Lange, which responds to & builds on a recent paper by me & John Danaher @johndanaher.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #aiethics

New podcast interview with me: "Exploring Technology Ethics with Dr. Sven Nyholm: Insights from 'This is Technology Ethics'", on Business Talk, hosted by Deepak Bhatt: youtu.be/5uDR0nor-yk?... #AIEthics #philosophy

‪I had the opportunity - along with @svennyholm.bsky.social - to provide a back cover endorsement for @kamilmamak.bsky.social's fantastic new book "Ethics in Human-Like Robots." www.routledge.com/Ethics-in-Hu...

I want to thank @svennyholm.bsky.social and @davidgunkel.bsky.social again for their endorsements, which are on the back cover of the book. My brother - Bartosz Mamak, prepared the cover and illustrations inside. In the background of the photo is Wawel Castle in Kraków 🙂

New paper: "Can Chatbots Preserve Our Relationships with the Dead?" Steve Campbell, Pengbo Liu, and I answer "no". Forthcoming in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association: www.academia.edu/126760618/Ca... #aiethics

New publication by Ziagul Hosseini, with me and Pascale Le Blanc as supporting coauthors: "The Ethics of Developing, Implementing, and Using Advanced Warehouse Technologies: Top-Down Principles Versus The Guidance Ethics Approach": journals.open.tudelft.nl/jhtr/article... #aiethics

New podcast interview with me (in Swedish) on the "fri tanke" podcast: shows.acast.com/fritankepodd... #aiethics #philosophy #filosofi #aietik

Many thanks to Joanna Bryson (@j2bryson.bsky.social) for the two great talks she delivered at @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social today! Here she is, in action, delivering her talk "Governing Abstractions: Conjectures on the Ethics of AI Regulation" in my ethics of AI research colloquium: #aiethics

Heads up! Any eligible (i.e. MA or Msc degree) #philosophy student may apply for this PhD candidate position and, if successful, do their doctoral studies at our department. Fully funded employment w full benefits 4 yrs FTE. Please share in networks! web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

New review of my book This is Technology Ethics, by Michael W Schmidt, featuring a mention as well of John Danaher (bsky.app/profile/john...) and my podcast based on the book: www.tatup.de/index.php/ta... #AIEthics Many thanks to Schmidt for his generous review.

Now published! 🚨 In Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, we report credit & blame judgments for helpful vs. harmful AI-generated content across 4 countries: US, UK, China, and Singapore (links below). We first... 1/

Great post doc opportunity for ethics/social science folks at TUM 👇👇 in a project on health data justice

"Two disrupters to arguments from analogy for robot rights: uniqueness and completeness" - new paper by Paula Sweeney (@paulasweeney.bsky.social) that might be of interest to many members of my network: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #aiethics