Dogmatic anthropocentric and social analysis of #AI is at best limited, at worst misguided. It gets in the way of understanding its actual capacities —and hence potential harms. Like focusing on the limitations of a jet fighter because it doesn’t fly like a hummingbird. #philtech #AIethics #philsci

IACAP CfP extension for this year’s conference at the University of Kansas. #philtech #philsci #AIethics

🚨I am pleased to announce that IACAP (The International Association for Computing and Philosophy) has extended its call for papers for its 2026 Conference. Please see further details and submit your paper here: pretalx.iacapconf.org/iacap-2026/cfp Looking forward to seeing your submissions,

Whatever you think abt a technology, the motivations behind it, or the power dynamics of its adoption, “head in the sand” arguments are just mediocre arguments/fallacies. This is exactly what Turing called them in 1951. That’s why #AIethics is so lost. A code of ethics needs to make sense. #philtech

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

I may be biased, but this book has some of the best stuff out there from #philsci on Machine Learning.

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

This sounds to me like what I take publishing to be.

My son just released his first solo EP. Not only is he a great songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, but he recorded and produced everything with his phone! It would mean a lot if some of you bought his music, it’s only $4.99 music.apple.com/us/album/fru... #music #musicsky #newmusicfriday

Why Twitter Was Open During the Maduro Raid? youtu.be/WNU9yDwvUDU

The first two hours this morning

Before we can say whether AI can or cannot address loneliness, we need to do some conceptual work on both AI as a distinct kind of technology and the distinct kinds of Loneliness. Here’s a video of some research I’m working on related to this exact problem. #philtech #philsci #philsky #AIethics

Can AI address Loneliness? In this episode of DatOS I introduce some necessary conceptual clarification before we can begin answering this question. AI as as an epistemic technology may be able to address one kind loneliness—epistemic loneliness— but only to a certain extent. #philtech #AIethics

I don't want to fight, so just take this as a personal psych report: it depresses me, and reduces my faith in education, when I see well-respected people with PhDs adduce the heavy-metal-music-suicide hearings as an inspiring precedent for regulation of matrix multiplication.

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