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Are we getting #AI all wrong? 🤖 It’s not just a tool… but is it a social agent? Our old #ethics can’t keep up. This book introduces “inbetweenism” — a bold new framework for the blurry space between machine and moral status 🌍 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

That reminded me of a picture I saw on Instagram.

preordered ... can't wait to read this! 😊

Now it can only be a matter of days before my book sees the light of day and hopefully finds some human readers!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
I would be delighted if some of you would suggest their libraries to include it in their collections.

The Emancipation of the drone: A Dennettian thought experiment This paper presents an extended thought experiment conducted by Daniel Dennett and the author as a way of exploring how consciousness might develop without a central “Cartesian Theater.” The starti...

I'm delighted that @journalphp.bsky.social is the home of this paper, born out of the long-standing & extremely fruitful collaboration between @keithfrankish.com & Daniel Dennett. Open access! doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy (soon to appear in our special issue on Dennett's Powerful Ideas)

Dennett’s powerful ideas Published in Philosophical Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2026)

With this brief editorial, I present our special issue on Dennett's Powerful Ideas, due out very soon in @journalphp.bsky.social. I'm very pleased with the quality and variety of contributions we received! doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

This thread gave me a boost of hope I really needed this week

NeurIPS reviewers typically review 6+ papers, each with 100 or so citations. The reviewers can't possibly check that every citation is real. But why don't we have an automated way to do this checking (and desk-rejecting if fake citations found) *before* the papers are sent to reviewers?

Artificial Joint Intentionality: Skilled Social Interactions in the Age of AI (Topical Collection by Synthese)

Look at this CFP for a Topical Collection of Synthese: link.springer.com/journal/1122...
Deadline: July,31, 2026

Social Robots and Cultural Sustainability This book is about social robots and their disruptive potential with respect to social environments and cultural institutions

A good way to start the new year: Read the great anthology edited by Raul Hakli, Sven Nyholm, Marco Nørskov, Sladjana Nørskov
doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Looking forward!

AI and Consciousness title page

New book in draft: AI and Consciousness [link in thread]
This book is a skeptical overview of the literature on AI and consciousness.
Anyone who emails me comments on the entire manuscript will be thanked in print and receive an appreciatively signed hard copy.

You may enjoy PhiDOS,
an ONLINE EVENT for discussing | exchanging news & ideas | networking with other researchers:
--> 9 October 2025 from 5 pm (CET) to 6 pm
TOPIC: Different perspectives on the (post)phenomenological
debate on digitization
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Can AI systems have free will? - Synthese While there has been much discussion of whether AI systems could function as moral agents or acquire sentience, there has been very little discussion of whether AI systems could have free will. I sket...

Can AI systems have free will? - das fragt unser Mitglied
@clist.bsky.social im folgenden #OpenAccess - Artikel:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#KI #AI #KuenstlicheIntelligenz #ArtificialIntelligence #FreierWille #FreeWill #Philosophy #Philosophie

Against AI welfare: Care practices should prioritize living beings over AI In this Comment, we critique the growing “AI welfare” movement and propose a novel guideline, the Precarity Guideline, to determine care entitlement. In contrast to approaches that emphasize potentia...

Our article is finally published! "Against AI welfare: Care practices should prioritize living beings over AI" 🎉

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thank you so much to my incredible co-authors1

#AIethics
#ArtificialIntelligence
#PhilosophyOfAI
#AIWelfare
#EnvironmentalEthics

In the middle of the night, the second issue of the new open access journal P&D, Philosophy & Digitality, was published:

A special Issue on
LLMs and the Patterns of Human Language Use
journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/ph...

Events - THE AI CON Upcoming CTMF-GAIL Seminar (Edinburgh), June 20, 2025 Alex will do a fireside chat with Shannon Vallor, hosted by the University of Edinburgh’s Generative AI Laboratory. UTS (Sydney), June 25, 2025 Em...

The AI Con book tour continues!

June 30: Alex in Berlin
July 1: Emily in Melbourne
July 16: Emily in Cambridge

Details: thecon.ai/events/

w/@alexhanna.bsky.social

I am really looking forward to reading this book - this Element is free online from 9th June 2025 - 23rd June 2025

a chart showing power consumption of big tech companies

hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice)

ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...

Evolution

Latest papers: Joshua Rust explores what a predictive processing account would look like if it began at the beginning of an evolutionary process doi.org/10.1080/0951...

I don't aim to create a digital replica of myself, but I can't stop thinking about digital replicas. In this paper, Jurgis Karpus and I explore the extent to which one may say that slivers of the original person live on in their digital replica.
Open Access at
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Die USA zeigen, wie hilflos Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen auf den Angriff der #Trump-Autokraten reagieren. Die Wahrheit ist: Die deutschen #Wissenschaftsinstitutionen wären nicht besser vorbereitet.

Im #WiardaBlog: www.jmwiarda.de/2025/02/24/a...

Apply for this conference and we can discuss online!

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Ned Block: Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Philosophy of Mind YouTube video by Robinson Erhardt

Excellent interview of @neddo.bsky.social (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1f...)

I've written a poem in memory of Dan Dennett, based loosely on Auden's elegy for W B Yeats and full of references to Dan's philosophy. I'd like to place it with a literary magazine, online or print. Can anyone suggest one that might like this kind of thing, please? (DM if you'd like to see the poem)

‘As real as it ever gets’: Dennett’s conception of the mind | Aeon Essays Often metaphorical and allusive, the philosopher’s work will long be remembered for how it grappled with everyday thought

Thinking of Dan
aeon.co/essays/as-re...

Love to be added.

Long live inbetweenism :)

Join My Graduate Seminar on Robot, Alien, and AI Consciousness

Reminder: Nov 5 deadline to express for PhD students and postdocs in philosophy to express interest in remotely attending my Winter Quarter grad seminar on Robot, Alien, and AI consciousness.
schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2024/10/join...