I reflected on the role of the physician in this new ai-mediated medical landscape. The reflection was prompted by the recent article in the @newyorker.com by @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social . open.substack.com/pub/agencyof...

www.newyorker.com/culture/2025... I think doctors should not have to justify their positions. But I also think that there should be a more rigorous medical exam to qualify someone as a doctor. Perhaps we will need less doctors bc of AI, which will make it more competitive.

Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet was born on this date in 1706. We had just proposed an episode about this pioneering philosopher of science to the @nehgov.bsky.social as part of a new season of #WiseWomen when we learned that our then-current grant was being prematurely terminated. 1/

We're having a bit of trouble getting the workshop website for WiL 2026 to show up on google when you search for it. Can you help out by sharing the link and visiting it, hopefully convincing the algorithm it exists and is important? sites.google.com/view/wil2026/

Thanksgiving ....brought us a tiny tiny money plant..:)

lithub.com/nothing-bett... I enjoyed this article on the love of reading and collecting books. I was also reminded of Umberto Eco's quote about how some people engage with books with a consumer mentality.

Stop trying to make fetch happen

substack.com/inbox/post/1... A new post, on Robots, Ethics and Safety…. and the nature of human beings to self-engineer. The latter is being interfered with by AI technology.

"Another 32 #data centers are planned to be built by 11 international firms by 2028, according to InvestChile... Data obtained through an information request... shows those... would add only 909 permanent positions during the operational phase, which lasts about 30 years." #ethics #AI #gov #tech

Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning. theconversation.com/studying-phi... #philosophy #skills #thinking #PhilosophySky #philsky

AI Ethics & Governance Weekly Roundup | When AI is Wrong, Cult of the Chatbot, Water Use, Generated Songs, Synthetic Data, Indicators of Consciousness, What Patients Want, Hallucinations, Normatively Meaningful Bias, + More mailchi.mp/7b9b25b2210e...

Love this quote, by Byung Chul Ha "the smart phone and the rosary serve the purpose of self monitoring and control...the smart phone is not just an effective surveillance apparatus; it is also a mobile confessional."

open.substack.com/pub/reea21/p... Some reflections on language and Ai , along Cioran , #philosophy #ai #language

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... the article quotes the cofounder and CEO of Uber saying that , "conversations with chat bots have gotten him 'pretty damn close' to breakthroughs in quantum physics.."

My new Substack on the Al slop economy is live. I had a lot of fun writing this, as I have first hand experience with Slop, having on a regular basis students submit Al-generated slop as their work. open.substack.com/pub/agencyof...

Never [I meant actually to say 'that is always' ] a good day when Kant is featured in a publication of mass consumption. I am usually curious about reading what is "deemed" an accessible interpretation of Kant's work. Philosophy should always be accessible. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

It’s absurd ( bordering being idiotic) to think we’re still in a society where a woman’s path to being liked and succeeding requires constant, careful calculation of her actions, how persona, and her story. These kinds of books are problematic. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

We live in the attention economy, where our attention is both a resource and a target. The more we propagate our attention, the less valuable and meaningful it becomes

"we live in a baroque inflation of moral competence, in a world whose main disorder risks being the fact that all its members feel morally in order, or that they all perceive their own disorder as negligible. L'enfer c'est les autres, we all seem to concede. Thus, le paradis c'est nous-mêmes" Pleșu

As someone who goes to a lot of events about AI... This was really rather special!

Nothing feels quite as wonderful as reading Plato at 5 am. It feels peaceful and sooo right.

Historian, #philosopher, and activist Michel Foucault was born 99 years ago today. In 2018 Josh and Ken explored his life and thought with the late Gary Gutting from @notredame.bsky.social, author of several books on #Foucault as well as "Thinking the Impossible: French #Philosophy Since 1960."

Let's not allow this technology to be bulldozed upon us without holding its creators accountable. #aiethics #ai #openai

Altman's vision of "user-aligned" AI dangerously shifts responsibility to the user under pretense of value neutrality and"solved" ethical issues. This pursuit of profit ignores embedded biases, promotes manipulative design, and risks eroding the public sphere. We must demand AI regulation!

John Searle, a philosopher who was best known for a thought experiment he formulated, decades before the rise of ChatGPT, to disprove that a computer program by itself could ever achieve consciousness, died at 93.

Al chat bots do not care. Why do we not care that they do not care? In other words, they are incapable of caring, why don't we care that they can not care? Also, we want to care, AI chat bots don't

Giovanni Pico at his best, hehe , "He rebuked me violently while holding a rather big book in his hand and asking, how dare you, how can you defend Origen?.. Bring your witness on, reverend sir, I said, if you have the balls. The witness is a big one, he said."

Future of Work: Deskilling Through AI Delegation open.substack.com/pub/agencyof...

Happy banned week , October 5-11, 2025!! Let's all read one or more of these banned books. Your local library awaits you.

I asked a generative AI system today to organize a list of company names (which I provided) and retrieve their associated websites from the internet. I gave it 150 companies. It organized and completed the task for 10 of them, but told me to fetch the rest myself. (1/2)

Getting off at Lafayette and Broadway every week at 7 a.m., my heart reels with humanity when I see the wellness checkers checking on people who might have had a tough night sleeping on the pavement, might be hungry or hurt.

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Good morning, Woke up to watching Carlito play tennis. All things are okay, if, only for a few hours.

While the fact that this 'actress' is AI-generated is acceptable, the claim that she feels real emotions outside of her acting role is very problematic. We are thereby degrading/devaluing the meaning of human emotion. variety.com/2025/film/gl...

I just discovered the antikythera project , not sure what to make of it , yet, but the site is phenomenal, from a purely creative perspective I love it. antikythera.org/about "Antikythera is a research and development institute focused on understanding the evolution of planetary intelligence..."

John Searle (1932-2025) dailynous.com/2025/09/28/j...

The rise of AI is creating a disconnect between how we think of these systems and how we actually use them. The value alignment problem has, for years, been promoted as a solution to ensure that these systems, once deployed, will act in our (humans') best interest. substack.com/home/post/p-...

It seems our good fellow, Sam Altman, a modern-day Hermes, has sent us a message. It may or may not have been written by generative AI. (1/2) blog.samaltman.com/abundant-int...

Nowadays, there is a lot of vibe learning that a lot of students are engaging in.

This sentiment resonated with me quite a lot "so many people seem to revere their persecutors and appear grateful to be subjugated and told what to do..." From Mother Mary Comes to Me", by Arundhati Roy,

Universities must teach students how to listen across lines of difference, Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock argues. Otherwise, "young people risk becoming more isolated, more easily manipulated, and less prepared to lead in a pluralistic democracy."

open.substack.com/pub/agencyof... On the Tech-Manosphere Convergence #aiethics #technology #ai #philosophy

Carlos Alcaraz to Jannik Sinner after beating him in the U.S. Open final “I wanna start with Jannik. It’s unbelievable what you’re doing during the whole season. Great level every tournament you’re playing. I’m seeing you more than my family” 😭😭😭😭😭😭

On the ethics of delegating our thinking to AI systems, #philsky #philosophy #aiethics #technology open.substack.com/pub/agencyof...

The danger with AI technology increasingly lies in how people use it. When people engage with AI as more than just a tool, even when they're aware of its nature, this can lead to significant, long-term societal and mental health issues that go beyond safety. restofworld.org/2025/ai-chat...

A late in life @nin.com fan, I had the wonderful privilege to attend their concert last night ( not my first). The show was phenomenal, I can still feel the artistry and love the band has put forward through their performance. Amazing truly.

I have created a space on Substack to reflect on the ethical challenges posed by AI technology. agencyofethics.substack.com #philosophy #aiethics #ethics #technology #ai

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/o... Many students, and friends, have reported relying on generative AI for advice that ought to require the qualifications of a therapist . It is problematic indeed.