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Exeter’s got a two-year teaching stint for someone into philosophy of data and related - the job’s pretty plush as far as non-permanent ones go - and Exeter is an amazing place to do this kind of philosophy - please pass around! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ094/l... #philsci

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New paper in @autisminadulthood.bsky.social exploring autistic adults embodied experiences of offline and online sociality.

The paper is co-authored with @joelkrueger.com, and funded by @carlsbergfondet.dk.

#Autism #Neurodiversity #Phenomenology #Embodiment

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Just one week til our “Social AI: A Philosophy Workshop”

🌟We will be joined by Pii Telakivi, Rob Clowes, Kris Goffin, Shahd Omar, Kesavan Thenagopal, Mike Barnes, Mercedes Corredor, Ben White, Leda Bario, Allister Lee, Àger Pérez Casanovas, Shane Glackin, Tom Roberts, & Joel Krueger 🌟

Feral AI gossip with the potential to spread damage and shame will become more frequent, researchers warn “Feral” gossip spread via AI bots is likely to become more frequent and pervasive, causing reputational damage and shame, humiliation, anxiety, and distress, researchers have warned. Chatbots like Cha...

Chatbots don’t just make things up—they generate and spread gossip, complete with negative evaluations and juicy rumours that can cause real-world harm, according to new analysis by @joelkrueger.com and @lucyosler.bsky.social from the University of Exeter @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

AI Chatbots Are Quietly Trading Gossip About People With Zero Fact-Checking AI chatbots already say questionable things to humans. Now, they may be swapping those same questionable takes with each other.

The AI gossip paper @joelkrueger.com and I wrote got picked up by Vice! We argue that chatbots generate gossip about people and consider how this gossip becomes ‘feral’ without the social constraints that usually moderate human rumor-spreading

🗣️🤖💬🫢

www.vice.com/en/article/a...

Feral AI gossip with the potential to spread damage and shame will become more frequent, researchers warn "Feral" gossip spread via AI bots is likely to become more frequent and pervasive, causing reputational damage and shame, humiliation, anxiety, and distress, researchers have warned.

AI chatbots are increasingly generating and spreading gossip, which can lead to reputational harm, anxiety, and social unrest as these outputs circulate widely and unchecked. doi.org/hbgmbz

Really excited to be organising this one. Such a fantastic group of speakers. I can’t wait to discuss with them about what atmospheres are, how they unfold and why they matter.

With @lucyosler.bsky.social @keithallenyork.bsky.social @reaveyp.bsky.social
@joelkrueger.com
@reaveyp.bsky.social

AI-induced psychosis: the danger of humans and machines hallucinating together We’ve always relied on friends and family to confirm our sense of reality. Now we’re increasingly expecting AIs to do it instead.

Our sense of reality is intimately entwined with our interactions with other people. What happens when those interactions are instead with social AI? See my piece on (so-called) ‘AI-induced psychosis’ in The Conversation

theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...

Social AI: A Workshop - Abstract Submissions Deadline for Abstract Submission: 28 November 2025 Dates: 10 & 11 February 2026 Location: Byrne House, University of Exeter (in person) The rise of Generative AI in recent years has, not surprisingl...

Deadline for abstracts: 28 Nov 2025

Full call for abstracts info and form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

✨CFA✨

I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!

Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky

AI Gossip Generative AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini routinely make things up. They "hallucinate" historical events and figures, legal cases, academic papers, non-existent tech products an...

Really excited to be starting this new chapter at Exeter and to continue exploring (giving myself anxiety about) the social and affective implications of AI

If you want to see the pre-print of the paper, check it out here: arxiv.org/abs/2508.08143

🎉 What a lovely way to celebrate my first day at Exeter! This fun conversation with Jim Baxter @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social about a paper my now-colleague @joelkrueger.com and I wrote on AI Gossip is now up!

In the podcast we discuss how AI systems might engage in gossip-like behaviour 🙊

Coming up soon! You don't want to miss this very special course from scaffolding expert, Dr. Joel Krueger on the research and benefits of objects and technology in our environment.

Excited to be editing this SI on affective injustice with @alfredarcher.bsky.social and @joelkrueger.com for EPSSE’s open access journal Passion.

Submissions open until 30 September, so if you need a break from your summer break, do think about sending us something!

#philsky

Many of these examples came together in our new chapter on Lonely Objects and Obsolete Affordances (@tomroberts.bsky.social and @joelkrueger.com)! Thanks so much for the inspiration ❤️

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TL;DR? Good news! You can now read a (brief) précis of Mind as Metaphor (OUP, 2023) in Philosophical Psychology. Available here: doi.org/10.1080/0951... @journalphp.bsky.social @journalphp.bsky.social #philsky #philmind #cogsci

Home as Mind: AI Extenders and Affective Ecologies in Dementia Care A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.

How can AI be utilised in dementia care? This week, Joel Krueger explores how AI can be used as cognitive extenders, promoting safety, wellbeing and cognitive support in dementia care.

imperfectcognitions....

#philsky #philpsy

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We're hiring! Lecturer in Philosophy (Artificial Intelligence and Data). Deadline for applications: 17th April 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML775/l... #philsky #philmind #cogsci #philsci

Blue poster with announcing the CFA on critical/feminist philosophy of emotions

Thrilled to share the call for papers for our Passion SI on Critical/Feminist Philosophy of Emotions guest edited by the amazing Laura Silva, Federico Lauria, and @arinapismenny.bsky.social ✨

Join contributors Arina Pismenny, Ronald de Sousa, Laura Silva, Marie Wuth, and Denish Jaswal

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So— just attended a fab talk about 'AI Gossip' by @joelkrueger.com. Joel, I hope you get to see this! Did some more jailbreaking of ChatGPT and got it to say some pretty mean gossip-y stuff about @kevinroose.com... in fact, it got pretty out of hand. It told me I wasn't safe— see below!

Ha, this is wild! So much better — and so much more intense! — than the examples I gave in the talk. You’ve clearly broken this bot. 😆 Thanks for sharing!

AI Gossip NCL Passport talk on Artificial Intelligence and Gossiping by Joel Krueger

👂Registrations are now open for our Narrative and Cognition Lab talk on AI and Gossip!

Can AI Gossip? Join our speaker @joelkrueger.com online or in-person on 20 Feb (1-2.30PM) as he explores the hows and harms of AI gossip.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai-gossip-...

#medhums

Voice, Rhyme, and Aesthetic Injustice Abstract. Some lines of poetry rhyme to certain readers and not to others because of how their words are pronounced in different accents. And because the a

New article in the BJA!

(With special thanks to Lucy Osler, Joel Krueger, and Gareth Roberts)

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Deadline: 30 September 2025

Submissions: between 6-9,000 words (excl. refs)

Editors: @lucyosler.bsky.social @alfredarcher.bsky.social @joelkrueger.bsky.social