It’s not that they are ‘true enough’, in fact sometimes they are plain false but they play very specific epistemic functions. Pincock explained what these may be a decade ago in detail from idealizations to abstractions to fictions and falsities of models. #philsci global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Interested in the intersection of #philsci and machine learning? This open access book is where the most recent contributions by the leading voices in such debates are taking place. Glad to be a part of it challenging the idea that computational reliabilism can pragmatically lead to trust in AI.

🚨 My new paper challenging the adequacy of computational reliabilism as an epistemological framework for AI is now out in the Synthese book Philosophy of Science for Machine Learning , ed. Giorgia Pozzi and Durán. (Open access) #philsci #philtech link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

🚨 Another call for nominations: The Herbert Simon Award. (IACAP) seeks nominations to recognize scholars at an EARLY stage of their academic career (i.e., <10y after PhD) who are likely to reshape debates at the nexus of Computing and Philosophy by their original research. #philsci #philtech

🚨 The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) seeks nominations for the 2026 Covey Award. The Covey Award recognizes senior scholars with a substantial record of innovative research in the field of computing and philosophy. #philtech limesurvey.mq.edu.au/index.php/23...

Francis Bacon as philosopher of science and epistemologist: - invents social epistemology/falsifiabilism/externalism/process reliabilism/automated science - tackles the problems of induction/demarcation/verification. Historians of science: he was personally and politically problematic 🤦‍♂️ #philsci

I have to say, this whole microworkshop concept is where it’s at. Some of the most enriching and thoughtful exchanges happen in this kind of intimate setting. I hope it catches on. So grateful for those that flew and drove across states, countries and continents just to be here. #philsci

Day 2: AI and scientific discovery, automating mathematical proofs, AI’s strange error, and human-shape constrains for agentic AI’s reasoning. Really memorable two days of conversation about computational methods in science. I should organize these microworkshops more often! #philsci #philtech

Day 1 of our microworkshop on computational methods in science: Occam’s Razor in machine learning, computational opacity, program analysis and scientific choice, and the possibility or desirability to automate decisions in science. Can’t wait for today’s conversation. #philsci

This year I was elected President of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP). As such, it is my pleasure to announce the venue & 🚨CfA for IACAP2026. Would love to see you there! #philsci (special track ML in science) #philtech #AIethics www.iacap.org/2025/10/10/i...

🚨 CfP. We’re particularly interested in #philosophy perspectives that interrogate conventional assumptions on the challenges, limitations, or promises of the possibility of friendships, care, parenting, mentorship, romance, etc., involving #AI. #sts #philtech #AIethics

🚨 Call for papers: Close personal relationships and AI technologies. Great opportunity for global perspectives on the philosophical implications of Close Personal Relationships and AI-driven technologies (from Chatbots to robots). Please share! (Reach out if interested). #AIethics / #philtech

Beyond ecstatic to be able to put together this lineup for our little workshop on the Philosophy of Computational Methods in Science. #philsci

(WSJ) -- China's state-sponsored hackers used artificial intelligence technology from Anthropic to automate break-ins of major corporations and foreign governments during a September hacking campaign, the company said Thursday. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chin...

It took a while for philosophers of mind to get into the new AI game. Regrettably, they seem to be playing the PR game with outdated terms like “consciousness”. Given the popular appeal of this strategy, I foresee years of unbearable and retrograde debate for philosophy of AI. #philtech #AIethics

David Fincher's THE SOCIAL NETWORK, and Trent Reznor / Atticus Ross's Oscar-winning score, turned 15 years old this fall. Here's some of my artwork for the album, created by manually corrupting images from the film by editing their raw hex data in a text editor, damaging them from the inside. 1/

A truly fantastic piece Ramon, I enjoyed the exchange enormously and argued back for the need to rescue intelligence from anti-human AI, it’s too important a notion to both human and non-human interactions with the world - see this rejoinder hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/c5hq3by1.... #philsci

🚨New paper! My response to @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social’s Environmental Intelligence. In short: maybe we should stop using ‘intelligence’ altogether and recognize these technical artifacts as what they are: epistemic technologies with new and distinct affordances. #AIEthics #Philsci #Philtech

Making flour tortillas at home is weird because—despite being so simple, making them makes me feel like I’ve achieved whatever level of enlightenment Sor Juana Inez de La Cruz wanted Aristotle to be at when she suggested he should’ve spent more time in the kitchen. #philsci

Strolling through the Stuttgart forest talking to atmospheric scientist, physicists, engineers, computer and data scientist about Machine Learning in science. Very interesting developments and considerations as we pondered discovery, knowledge transfer, and artifactual epistemology. #philsci

Download open source models, fine tune them or untune them with weird data, explore glitches and capabilities. Create local agents for garage projects, or like my friends say: make them feral. #philtech #AIethics

I found hanging out with artists and creatives helps transcend the whole “use or refuse” dichotomy and discourse. Sooo many interesting ways to appropriate this technology and push its limits and capabilities to take it into fascinating directions. Very similar to street art. #philtech #aiethics

Excited to be a keynote here. Talking about scientific discovery, serendipity and machine learning. www.simtech.uni-stuttgart.de/communicatio... #philsci

Flash trip back to Stuttgart to give a keynote on AI and scientific discovery. I’m really looking forward to the written version of this paper on serendipity, science, and computational methods. Hopefully by the end of Fall I’ll compile all the feedback from this year. #philsci

Speaking of Hinton, hate to say I told you so… Should we replace radiologists with deep learning? Pigeons, error and trust in medical AI - Alvarado - 2022 - Bioethics. #AI #AIethics #Philtech

Some of the knee-jerk resistance to understand the virtues and benefits of Artificial agents and caregivers is heavily culturally biased. In this paper, @smusab.bsky.social provides a broader #AIethics perspective. This is an excellent contribution to an otherwise stagnated discourse.

For ~2 years and I’ve been reading all I can about Francis Bacon as a #philsci and #philtech guy. One could read many more books about him without mentioning science, tech, or philosophy and it would all be as impressive. Definitely up there with Descartes and others. This summer’s readings!

Q&A in Noto, Sicily. For a seminar I gave for the University of Messina. Great group of researchers led by Nicola Angius in the Philosophy of Computer Science, Science and AI. #philsci #philtech

Update w/updated itinerary: 5 weeks, 4 countries, 10 cities, 7 talks, 1 panel. Week 2, talk 3 and panel participation at IACAP done. #philsci #philtech

So lucky I got to see @firepile.bsky.social twice elaborate on why she thinks “Hell is Other Robots”, specially ones that simply cant collaborate. Once at SPT and now at IACAP.

Next week I’ll give the META lecture at Politecnico di Milano on Serendipty, AI, and automated science. #philsci #philtech

As usual, an impressively thorough, philosophically cautious, yet thought-provoking talk by Emily Sullivan as keynote and recipient of IACAP’s Herbert Simon Award. #philsci #philtech

Two of my favorite ideas from SPT last week. I’m still processing: - @shannonvallor.bsky.social: intimacy as openness, current tech as closure of imaginaries. - @davidgunkel.bsky.social: the author we invented is dead, yes. But we’ll come up with something new.

5 weeks, 4 countries, 10 cities, 6 talks, 2 panels. Week one/first talk at the Society for the Philosophy of Technology, done! Doing different presentations of different papers for different expert audiences on #philtech, #philsci, and a bit of #AIethics as well! Living the dream :)

LLM’s sycophancy seems to me to be embedded in the data: we’ve normalized abusing words like “great”, we even call our interlocutors words and deeds as “awesome” and “amazing” in both the corporate and casual life even when they’re anything but that. #philtech #AIethics

Excellent opening keynote at PST by @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social. Thought-provoking messaging against AI hype in science. A bit lacking on #philsci that acknowledges successful ML use in hard sciences, but a needed corrective to sloppy general industry narratives. #philtech

RIP

RIP @helendecruz.net

Workaccount2 on Hacker News just coined the term "context rot" to describe the thing where the quality of an LLM conversation drops as the context fills up with accumulated distractions and dead ends news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4430...

I think this would be of great interest to folks in #philtech #AIethics #philsky #AI. Please share if you know of another community that would find this interesting.

Can we have close relationships with AI? In this new DatOS episode, Oluwaseun Sanwoolu walks us through her paper (w @johnfsymons.bsky.social) on why we are simply mistaken if we think we can. Hint: it’s our human limitations that make things special. youtu.be/2vw3XVZV4Ps?...

Paper is finally up and open access (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...), it's a sequel to an earlier paper where we'd argued that there's not good evidence that pre-publication peer review is a net benefit (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/...). So in this one we suggest an alternative.

I wrapped my Data/ #AIethics grad seminar with the liberating insights of Denisa Kera—from Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv—who showed us through her work (thinking and tinkering) that we don’t have to be passive victims of technology. Rather, we can decide our own level of involvement. #philtech

A few minutes ago I received the news that I have tenure. Celebrating with a brief moment of peace. #philsky

This week I gave an online lecture abt my research on #AIethics at Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv. I’m always nervous about online lectures because I’m a walker/hand gesture speaker. But apparently I managed! This is one of the nicest comments I’ve ever received abt my talks. #philtech

Such an honor, privilege and pleasure to talk about my research on AI and values— mainly AI and Serendipity in Science, and AI and loneliness— to students and faculty in Tel Aviv at the "Critical Studies of Emergent Technologies" Masters Program of Bar Ilan University. #AIEthics #Philtech #Philsci

The responses to this post are perfect illustrations of how much affective polarization there is around LLM. For saying "I find LLMs useful in some limited contexts" people have decided that I: 1. Hate thinking (I'm a philosophy professor) 2. Don't know how to do research (again, professor)

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