A roadmap for evaluating moral competence in large language models - Nature This Perspective offers a roadmap for tackling the challenges of the facsimile problem, moral multidimensionality and moral pluralism in large language models.

A roadmap for evaluating moral competence in large language models

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Plato Warned Us About ChatGPT (And Told Us What to Do About It)

Plato Warned Us About ChatGPT (And Told Us What to Do About It)

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Classical and Quantum Phase Space Mechanics Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Classical and Quantum Phase Space Mechanics

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Does AI already have human-level intelligence?
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Philosopher @elayshech.bsky.social explains the mind-bending reality of a third class of 2D particles called 'anyons' - using baseballs, holes, loops, and a coffee cup that's topologically equivalent to a doughnut
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Anyons: the two-dimensional particles that reframe reality | Aeon Essays Physicists believe a third class of particles – anyons – could exist, but only in 2D. What kind of existence is that?

In recent years, evidence has been accumulating for a third class of particles called ‘anyons’ which rewrite the rules for how particles move, interact, and combine. However, they’re theoretically possible only in 2D, so what kind of reality do they actually possess? if any at all?

Health and Disease Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Health and Disease

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Opinion | Science Keeps Changing. So Why Should We Trust It?

My new piece in the @nytimes.com:
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Philosophy of Cosmology and Astrophysics Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Philosophy of Cosmology and Astrophysics

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This company claimed to ‘de-extinct’ dire wolves. Then the fighting started. Colossal’s bold announcements have drawn criticism from many scientists, but the billion-dollar firm is not backing down.

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Read all Elements in The Philosophy of Biology series for free during the ISHPSSB conference 20 - 25 July.

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OpenAI’s o3 tops new AI league table for answering scientific questions SciArena uses votes by researchers to evaluate large language models’ responses on technical topics.

Researchers ranked AI models on scientific Q&A. OpenAI’s o3 came first.
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Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity | Quanta Magazine Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture.

A new paper shows that the “creativity” of certain AI may actually be a direct, inevitable consequence of how they are built. Webb Wright reports:
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Mechanistic Interpretability Needs Philosophy Mechanistic interpretability (MI) aims to explain how neural networks work by uncovering their underlying causal mechanisms. As the field grows in influence, it is increasingly important to examine no...

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It's kinda already happening though, MI groups are already peppered with philosophers...

When Did Nature Burst Into Vivid Color? | Quanta Magazine Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color vision needed to see them.

Which came first: colorful signals or the color vision needed to see them? Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to find out. @mollyherring.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/when-did-nat...

Human-like object concept representations emerge naturally in multimodal large language models - Nature Machine Intelligence Multimodal large language models are shown to develop object concept representations similar to those of humans. These representations closely align with neural activity in brain regions involved in o...

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Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency | ACM Conferences FAccT: Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

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Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats New research on simulated blackmail, industrial espionage, and other misaligned behaviors in LLMs

"Models... resorted to malicious insider behaviors when that was the only way to avoid replacement or achieve their goals—including blackmailing officials and leaking sensitive information to competitors. We call this phenomenon agentic misalignment."
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How Did We Fare on COVID-19? - Boston Review To restore public trust and prepare for the next pandemic, we need a reckoning with the U.S. experience—what worked, and what didn’t.

@bostonreview.bsky.social just published a Forum on a recent (critical) post-mortem of US COVID policy, with responses from me and @cailinmeister.bsky.social, along with @adamjkucharski.bsky.social, Adam Gaffney, and @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social. V. interesting!

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‘Remarkable’ new enzymes built by algorithm with physics know-how Nature - Computer approach creates synthetic enzymes 100 times more efficient than those designed by AI.

Computer algorithms have designed highly efficient synthetic enzymes from scratch

https://go.nature.com/43PmE5s

OpenAI finds that tiny bits of bad data can trigger “misaligned personas” in LLMs—broad toxic behaviors from narrow inputs. But these features are detectable and reversible. A new path for AI debiasing?

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AI Signals The Death Of The Author | NOEMA The meaning of a piece of writing does not depend on the identity of the author, even if the author is not human.

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This A.I. Company Wants to Take Your Job

Will AI take our jobs — or will companies reinvest in helping us do them better?

Mechanize, a new AI startup, isn’t subtle: it wants to “fully automate work… as fast as possible.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/t...

One of ChatGPT's popular uses just got skewered by Stanford researchers When the stakes are high, a robot therapist falls way short, researchers found.

Can large language models support mental health—or do they risk causing harm?

A Stanford study found that when prompted to act as therapists, LLMs often gave advice that was misleading, inaccurate, or inappropriate.

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Guest column | Is green really ‘green’? The mind-bending science of color. Science and philosophy explain why a color is objectively real, even when people see the same shade differently.

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If it looks like a dire wolf, is it a dire wolf? How to define a species is a scientific and philosophical question Figuring out whether de-extinction is possible is as much a technical puzzle as a philosophical one. Add two kinds of DNA to the mix, and it gets even more complex.

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If it looks like a dire wolf, is it a dire wolf? How to define a species is a scientific and philosophical question Biotech company Colossal Biosciences made headlines in April 2025 after claiming it had "successfully restored … the dire wolf to its rightful place in the ecosystem." Three wolf pups—Romulus, Remus a...

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Philosophers On The Science & Ethics of Resurrecting Extinct Species - Daily Nous "The Return of the Dire Wolf" announced Time magazine---not quite correctly, it turns out---in its article on the creation of three creatures genetically engineered into existence by the firm Colossal...

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Colors are objective, according to two philosophers − even though the blue you see doesn’t match what I see An object’s color appears differently under different lighting and against different backgrounds − for different viewers. But that doesn’t mean colors are subjective.

Are colors in the world—or just in your head?
If your red isn’t my red, does that mean color is subjective?
Most people think so. But we argue colors are real and objective—out there in the world, not just in your mind:
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The Metaphysics of Color Cambridge Core - Epistemology and Metaphysics - The Metaphysics of Color

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