I'm thrilled to announce the launch of @UofNorthFlorida's new #AI for Work and Life certificate! No technical experience required. Taught by industry and academic experts. The best part? The certificate is FREE through the end of 2025! Register here: learn.getcertificate.online/courses/cour...

PSA: Please don’t get your nutritional facts and dietary advice from AI.

Paging Senate Democrats:

Actually, it’s only regime change if it comes from the régime region of France. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling interference.

A good time to be part of @esgproject.bsky.social!

This weekend, I passed 1K citations. I never thought I would hit this # as a political scientist with a non-elite pedigree who studied an obscure topic. Yet here we are. Thanks to everyone who has cited my work approvingly or critically over the years!

Has anyone ever heard of a journal published by @springernature.com called "Knowledge in Society"? My ORCID record was just updated showing that I completed a review for this journal but I've never heard of it and can't find anything about it online.

Some news from #Florida on #AI rights. A judge has ruled that chatbots don’t have free speech rights. Rights theory is currently a mess & it looks like judges might have to be the ones to clean it up for the scholars who can’t agree on who or what deserves legal rights. www.wusf.org/courts-law/2...

This is a very sad but interesting test of moral rights. Advocates of the properties-based approach to moral status (ie most animal rights theorists) would likely argue that since the woman is brain dead, she is not sentient and therefore doesn't have rights. www.npr.org/2025/05/16/n...

As I wrote about in my award-winning 2020 book, Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law, using a properties-based approach to moral/legal status is riddled with issues. Rights theory is more complex and messier than these tech bros think!

Welp, at least my research is still relevant! #AI #rights

When AI eats its own tail, it damages the environment. My new piece, Clean Data: Recursion as Pollution in Environmental AI (scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlufac/881/) is out from Oxford University Press, with great editors @joshgellers.bsky.social and @spillteori.bsky.social. #OUP #AIethics #newoil

I'm pleased to announce that the first series of chapters (12 and counting) associated with the Environments unit of @oxunipress.bsky.social #AI in Society Series is now live! Click here to view all current chapters: shorturl.at/1GwFJ

An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2) www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

Thanks for the follow, @mcuban.bsky.social! I appreciate what you’re doing here on Bluesky and look forward to sharing ideas.

I'm pleased to share my review of 2 excellent new books on the moral status of non-humans: @jeffsebo.bsky.social's The Moral Circle & Webb Keane's Animals, Robots, Gods. Check out the review published in @science.org here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #AI #animals #nature

Recently I joined Dr. Mary Treyz and UNF graduate student Hudson Main on the podcast How to Ruin Dinner to discuss the moral status of #AI, the use of AI in #highered, and #ethics in the #Anthropocene. Check out the episode here: marytreyz.domains.unf.edu/podcast/epis...

If you're like me, you find the idea of "human-centered AI" both redundant and harmful. Thankfully, there is a call for papers for a special issue of Topoi, "Rethinking human-centeredness: Bridging environmental and AI ethics discourses." Check it out here: link.springer.com/collections/...

Join the Jacksonville Human Rights Commission for Gracious Space: Creating Conditions for Community Across Political Differences. There's a "Gracious Space" in each of the 14 City Council Districts on Wednesday, 1/22. For locations & registration: mlkgraciousspace2025.paperform.co?utm_source=p...

I was invited in December by the Learning Planet Institute in Paris for a podcast to share how Artificial Intelligence and social simulations can empower inclusive decision making to accelerate the SDGs. podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/r...

Last week I had the privilege of a lifetime- serving as a moderator on a panel featuring several of Jacksonville's most accomplished women and famed Indigenous scholar, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer. Our conversation revolved around themes from Robin's books such as gratitude, kinship, and reciprocity.

If you think AGI is scary you should see home insurance rates in Florida. They’re legitimately terrifying.

This was a super interesting read. The author argues that the university is a kind of artificial intelligence governed by black box thinking. But we can change that.

Christmas came early. @jeffsebo.bsky.social

As we prepare for the busy holiday travel season, I’m thrilled to introduce a welcoming “hologram” message from me at JIA! It’s a symbol of our commitment to Jax being a hub for technological innovation and it's just the start. Watch the message and read more: www.jacksonville.gov/welcome/news...

Pleased to share the latest version of my paper with Arthur Spirling and @lexipalmer.bsky.social on replication using LMs We show: 1. current applications of LMs in political science research *don't* meet basic standards of reproducibility...

In my latest co-authored piece for Brookings with Marie Tano, we examine the digital language divide and provide recommendations on ways to address these issues by moving toward equitable participation and localized AI development. www.brookings.edu/articles/clo...

Inspired by @wimlds.bsky.social , I looked for a "Women in Machine Learning" starter pack and couldn't find one. So I created one! May have some mistakes. I'll try to do an AI ethics one next. 🤗 go.bsky.app/LT6CwNN

What are the best starter packs for: - environmental politics - AI ethics - animal rights - rights of nature - Indigenous politics All suggestions welcome!

Just a couple more days left to submit abstracts to this fascinating conference. www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc...

Submit your abstract and come hang out with us in Santa Barbara for the second PAMBA Conference! Talks, excursions, fun! 🐦‍⬛🐋🦊

I started to put together a starter pack for research in AI+Ecology, check it out and let me know if you would like to be added! go.bsky.app/8zugFF6

Great philosophy podcast that tackles the big issues:

1/ The assassination of the UnitedHealthcare CEO casts light on an issue involving #AI. A class action lawsuit alleges that UHC utilizes an algorithm (nH Predict) with an "extremely high error rate" to "systematically deny claims." Read more about the issue here: www.statnews.com/2023/11/14/u...

If you're interested in #AI and #justice, check out this new article by Siavosh Sahebi & Paul Formosa in Minds and Machines, Artificial Intelligence and Global Justice. The authors examine AI justice considerations from a capabilities approach. DL it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If you’re not a Gator then you must be gator bait! #GoGators

Very glad that my article ‘Imitation and Large Language Models’ has been accepted and published in Minds and Machines! You can access it here: rdcu.be/dWvcH

TFW you read an article on a subject you wrote about in a book, but it only cites a piece critical of your book and not the book itself. 👿👿👿

This ought to be good (no pun intended) techcrunch.com/2024/11/22/o...

If you, your family, or neighbor could use some food assistance this Thanksgiving holiday, Feeding Northeast Florida is hosting a free food distribution at Lonnie Miller Park (7689 Price Ln) this Saturday, 11/23 at 9am. For more food distributions from Feeding NEFL: feedingnefl.org/find-food-no...

Are you interested in robot ethics and regulation? Then check out these accounts and join the conversation! go.bsky.app/4h7MAUq #robots #AI #AIethics #tech

Ok sometimes #AI does some pretty cool stuff. This could revolutionize #animalrights. dailygalaxy.com/2024/11/grou...

This is just a start. Additions welcomed.

Our ERC project Agency in Law is getting started with a monthly online talk series. Our first speaker is Jakob Stenseke, "Knowing and owing each other: on the moral agency of humans, animals, and machines” Time: Nov 20, 3pm Helsinki time (1pm London time) Register: www.lyyti.fi/reg/Seminar_...

#Jacksonville- join us in our quest for a brighter future!

I just returned from #Japan, where I gave a talk on moral rights for #robots and participated on a panel on Regulating Social Robots at Kyushu University. I met so many great people working on #robotethics. Special thanks to Yueh-Hsuan Weng for letting me hang out with your Lovot!