Coming up at LMU Munich: workshop on AI & consciousness, organized by Prof. Sven Nyholm (@svennyholm.bsky.social) & colleagues, on Nov 21. Speakers include Prof. Joanna Bryson (@j2bryson.bsky.social) & Prof. Tobias Schlicht (Bochum). Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #aiethics

LMU Munich is looking to fill a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education. The role involves research, teaching, and the design of a new study program in philosophy/ethics. Deadline: 15 Nov 2025. Apply here: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

Join us for a talk by @svennyholm.bsky.social (LMU): "Moral Principles for Human-Human Interaction, Human-AI Interaction, and AI-AI Interaction" Mathematikon (Lecture Hall), Heidelberg Wednesday, 12 November, 6pm Details: www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/veranstal...

Today I received a physical copy of the Korean translation of my book This is Technology Ethics. Thanks to Yongwoo Yi for bringing it to me all the way from South Korea! Thanks again, most of all, to Junsik Yoon and Joseph HB Park for translating the book! #AIEthics #philosophy

New publication: "Is Meaningful Human Control Over Personalised AI Assistants Possible? Ethical Design Requirements for The New Generation of Artificially Intelligent Agents", by Sietze Kuilman, me, Stefan Buijsman & Luciano Cavalcante Siebert: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #aiethics #philosophy

News coverage of OpenAI's recently announced, forthcoming updated functioning w/ respect to the types of conversations enabled - from France 24 - featuring some commentary by me, Kate Devlin (@drkatedevlin.bsky.social), & other AI ethics researchers: www.france24.com/en/technolog... #aiethics

🚨We're hiring! 🚨 👉Open Position: Assistant Professor of #Philosophy with focus on #AI 🗓️ Application deadline: 3 November 2025 Apply via: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #PartOfLSE #LSEPhilosophy #Jobs

I'm more than halfway through this interesting #podcast series on technology ethics, from my colleague Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social and John Danaher. Highly recommended! technologyethicspod.wordpress.com #ethics #aiethics #technology #philsky

New book review, by Ratan Sarkar, of "Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies" (Open Publishers 2023), which was co-edited by me and several others in the ESDIT research project @esdit.bsky.social: jeet.ieet.org/index.php/ho...

Out now: "Ethik der KI: eine Philosophische Perspektive" - a transcript from a lecture I recently gave at an interdisciplinary event organized by the German Lutheran Diaconia organization "midi" - in *Diakonie reflektiert – Band 3* (ed. Christian Albrecht): www.mi-di.de/media/pages/... #aiethics

Opening here at the LMU: a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion. The position combines research in philosophy with a strong focus on didactics. Application deadline: 15 November 2025 job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

Out now: *The Ethics of Behavior Change Technologies*, edited by Joel Anderson, Lily Frank & Andreas Spahn, featuring "Control, personal autonomy and behaviour change technologies", by me: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de... #philosophy #technologyethics #aiethics

JOB: Associate Professor or Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, in association with a Tutorial Fellowship at Merton College. AoS Ethics and/or Political Philosophy, with at least an AoC in Feminist Philosophy. #PhilJobs www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW474/a...

LMU Munich invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education, starting in October 2026. We are looking for candidates with an outstanding research record in philosophy and a strong profile in philosophy education. Deadline: 15 November 2025: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

Friends, I’m in dire straits or I’d never ask. Thank you for donating and sharing! If you are comfortable doing so, please share this link again. It helps! www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

Reality vs. virtual reality - what's the difference? youtu.be/zTynRf24mOM

@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