Important work from @birchlse.bsky.social

Can you REALLY tell the difference between AI-generated and human-written text? One of these texts was written by a human and another by a well-prompted chatbot. Which is which?:

Next up in our ongoing AI Affect series: 👤 Tim Salomons (Queens Canada) 📢 "How do we judge others' pain?" 🗓️ TOMORROW April 15, 3-4:30 PM 📍 Join us in person or online! DM for details.

Announcement of Institute of Philosophy Conference on Responsible AI at the University of London on 19-20 May. Free and open to all philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Join us Friday for a bonus PPE tak! Sam Berstler (MIT) | "Conversing in the Dark: Off-Off Record Speech Acts and the Cooperative Creation of Uncertainty" 📆: Fri, March 28, 4:30-6 PM 📍: Senate House, Rm 349 Hope to see you there! philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Next up in our ongoing AI Affect series: 👤 Rob Long (Eleos AI) 📢 "Taking AI Welfare Seriously" 🗓️ Tuesday, March 25, 3-4:30 PM 📍 Join us in person or online! DM for details.

Next up in our ongoing AI Affect series: 👤 Tom Everitt (Google Deepmind) @tom4everitt.bsky.social 📢 "Agency as backwards causality" 🗓️ TODAY Tuesday, March 4, 3-4:30 PM 📍 Join us in person or online! DM for details.

The deadline for applying to be an AI fellow at the LAIHP is this Sunday.

A cartoon by Amy Kurzweil. #NewYorkerCartoons

It's a neat way to stumble upon interesting information randomly, learn new things, and spend spare moments of boredom without reaching for an algorithmically addictive social media app.

University College Dublin is hiring five year Ad Astra Fellows in the Philosophy of Technology/AI. Deadline: February 21st. Find out more at the link below.

Next up in our ongoing AI Affect series: 👤 Jeff Sebo (NYU) @jeffsebo.bsky.social 📢 "The Moral Circle" 🗓️ Tuesday, February 4, 3-4:30 PM 📍 Join us in person or online! DM for details.

Very good (technical) explainer answering "How has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture?". Aimed at readers already familiar with Transformers. epoch.ai/gradient-upd...

The LAIHP is pleased to invite applications for Visiting Fellowships at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London. The fellowship period will run from May 19th-June 27th, 2025 For more information, see below.

Today, we are publishing the first-ever International AI Safety Report, backed by 30 countries and the OECD, UN, and EU. It summarises the state of the science on AI capabilities and risks, and how to mitigate those risks. 🧵 Full Report: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/679a0c... 1/21

Reminder @alex-taylor.bsky.social is speaking *this* Thursday discussing his BRAID project on red teaming & outsourcing labour in the Global South. Make sure you don't miss out - get your hybrid ticket now 👉 rb.gy/64oljm @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @edcdcs.bsky.social @uoe-gail.bsky.social

Can't wait for this talk tomorrow? Too bad, that's when it is. We're excited too.

Epistemic biases in human reinforcement learning: behavioral evidence, computational characterization, normative status and possible applications. A quite self-centered review, but with a broad introduction and conclusions and very cool figures. Few main takes will follow osf.io/preprints/ps...

The Journal of the American Philosophical Association is now on 🦋 Bluesky 🦋! We aim to publish papers that break new ground, are from diverse philosophical traditions, and are on topics of wide interest. Here are our most recent articles! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Follow us for updates.

We're excited to announce the next speaker in our AI Affect series is Amanda McCroskery (Google Deepmind)! 📢 "From Research to Practical Decision-making on Affective AI" 🗓️ January 28th, 3-4:30 PM 📍 Join us in person or online! DM for details.

Discussion of the #aiglossary in the Daily Nous!

Inspired by Keir Starmer's speech yesterday to read Kate Vredenburgh's paper on the dangers of using AI in bureaucratic settings www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

On one hand, this paper finds adding inference-time compute (like o1 does) improves medical reasoning, which is an important finding suggesting a way to continue to improve AI performance in medicine On the other hand, scientific illustrations are apparently just anime now arxiv.org/pdf/2501.06458

It’s about time.

📣There is still time to apply for one of 2 Assistant Professors roles at CFI- one in AI and Ethics Design, and the other in the Social Science of AI. Closing date 2nd February.

Really puts my daily exhaustion into perspective.

Welcome to Cambridge, Inga 👋 It's great to have you here.

I spent 10 days not checking my work email over the holidays, during which I received an invitation to review an article, a reminder of that invitation, and a retraction of that invitation due to lack of response. Already feeling productive in the new year! 💪

For some clarity, see Prof. Anandi Hattiangadi’s #aiglossary entry on AGI.

CFI is hiring!

We've got an excellent line-up in both philosophy and neuroscience for our first conference! Submit your abstracts by Feb 1 and join us in St. Louis in early May!

On behalf of the #ASSC28 Scientific Program Committee, the Symposia and Tutorials are now announced 🥳 assc2025.gr/programme/sy....

"The AI risk repository, which includes over 700 AI risks grouped by causal factors (e.g. intentionality), and domains (e.g. discrimination), was born out of a desire to understand the overlaps and disconnects in AI safety research" #AIEthics techcrunch.com/2024/08/14/m...

What are some of the things you've learned about how LLMs (and LLM-powered systems like ChatGPT) work that were non-obvious but most helped you build a more effective mental model of how to use them?

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Recording modalities like fMRI aggregate the responses of many thousands of neurons, but how does this affect representational geometry? Meticulous essential breakdown from @veronicabossio.bsky.social biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

New results for a new year! “Linking neural population formatting to function” describes our modern take on an old question: how can we understand the contribution of a brain area to behavior? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧠👩🏻‍🔬🧪🧵 #neuroskyence 1/

Virtuous regress double entendre!

FYI, we have one on consciousness as well… profits aren’t mentioned there either. #aiglossary #ai #consciousness #agi

Rest assured, the nappies we bought on vacation are up to 100% leakproof.

Anandi Hattiangadi's #aiglossary entry on 'Artificial General Intelligence' is a good primer on the variety of ways we use the term. This one... isn't included. #ai

We've released the CFP for #FAccT2025, which will be held in Athens, Greece! 🇬🇷 Abstracts are due on January 15th, papers on January 22nd. Read all about it on our new blog: facct-blog.github.io/2024-10-28/a...

Deadline for faculty research grants up to $60k is 27 Jan! “The Research Scholar Program provides unrestricted gifts to support research at institutions around the world, and is focused on funding world-class research conducted by early-career professors” google.submittable.com/submit/ac6d7...

Inevitably my work will be too niche to get in…

I strongly recommend the alternative Henke/Weksler method. You’ll see more money that way.

our 3-year-old twins' most impressive superpowers are their haecceity senses. we give them the same toys, yet both of them want to play with *this* one but not *that* one—the final nail in the coffin for Leibniz's principle of the identity of indiscernibles

Two new pieces from the LAIHP: Responding to Murray Shanahan's "Talking About Large Language Models," Stephen M. Downes, Patrick Forber, and LAIHP director @alexgrz.bsky.social argue that "LLMs are Not Just Next Token Predictors"

Hot take: ‘Students using AI’ is extremely vague and students using AI is a mixed bag.