July 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
For today’s episode in the history of bad ideas David talks to philosopher @shannonvallor.bsky.social about the myth that technology can be value free. Why do we let Silicon Valley get away with the idea that it’s never the fault of the tech?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
For today’s episode in the history of bad ideas David talks to philosopher @shannonvallor.bsky.social about the myth that technology can be value free. Why do we let Silicon Valley get away with the idea that it’s never the fault of the tech?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
July 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Friends, this week marks a monumental step forward in my path towards pushing for a greater ecology of accountability in the age of AI. Thrilled to officially announce the AI Accountability Lab (AIAL) @theaial.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin is launching today, Thursday Nov 28, 2024 aial.ie
AI Accountability Lab
Stewarding a greater ecology of accountability in the age of AI
aial.ie
November 28, 2024 at 12:55 PM
#philtech boosting
Hello, #AcademicSky! We are the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) at KU Leuven. Our senior and junior researchers focus on #logic, #epistemology & #philsci. We’re here to share our work and connect with logicians and philosophers of science worldwide—help us spread the word! #philsky
September 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
#philtech boosting
November 26, 2024 at 3:00 AM
"Driverless cars are often called autonomous vehicles – but driving isn’t an autonomous activity. It’s a co-operative social activity, in which part of the job of whoever’s behind the wheel is to communicate with others on the road."
- Rebecca Solnit
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- Rebecca Solnit
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rebecca Solnit · In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisco
I don’t know whether these billionaires know what a city is, but I do know that they have laid their hands on the city...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 2, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Teaching Fact-Checking Through Deliberate Errors: An Essential AI Literacy Skill - #Postplagiarism drsaraheaton.com/2025/04/23/t...
Teaching Fact-Checking Through Deliberate Errors: An Essential AI Literacy Skill
This teaching resource focuses on cultivating AI literacy by teaching students to critically evaluate AI-generated content with deliberate inaccuracies. It emphasizes fact-checking skills through s…
drsaraheaton.com
May 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
“There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as before an ancient friend.” —Baldwin’s words grounded my Tanner lectures at Harvard, “Imagining Beyond the Artificial Intelligentsia”🤖
Lecture 1, Who Owns the Future? youtu.be/ZseJigkUhuE?...
Lecture 1, Who Owns the Future? youtu.be/ZseJigkUhuE?...
Tanner Lecture One with Ruha Benjamin
YouTube video by Mahindra Humanities Center
youtu.be
May 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
2 Two Fully Funded PhD Positions in Agricultural & Environmental Ethics at KU Leuven, Belgium
KU Leuven is offering two 4-year PhD positions in agricultural and environmental ethics within the ERC-funded BIOTA project, focusing on sustainable agriculture and plant adaptation to climate change.
KU Leuven is offering two 4-year PhD positions in agricultural and environmental ethics within the ERC-funded BIOTA project, focusing on sustainable agriculture and plant adaptation to climate change.
2 Two Fully Funded PhD Positions in Agricultural & Environmental Ethics at KU Leuven, Belgium
KU Leuven is offering two 4-year PhD positions in agricultural and environmental ethics within the ERC-funded BIOTA project, focusing on sustainable agriculture and plant adaptation to climate change.
agristok.net
December 31, 2025 at 1:42 AM
My department is hiring! Tenure-track assistant professor in philosophy (AOS: philosophy of technology) jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/55...
San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology
jobs.sjsu.edu
October 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Would you like to teach philosophy of science and technology in Vienna? #philosophy #STS
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Science and Technology
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Science and Technology
jobs.univie.ac.at
April 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Good thread. Dead on.
Not only CS profs and tech bros. Lawyers often don’t get that tech is *inherently* political, that design choices encode value judgements. @geomblog.bsky.social, @lizz-iek.bsky.social and I wrote a whole paper about how judges need to understand this too.
Not only CS profs and tech bros. Lawyers often don’t get that tech is *inherently* political, that design choices encode value judgements. @geomblog.bsky.social, @lizz-iek.bsky.social and I wrote a whole paper about how judges need to understand this too.
May 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Proud to present my article "Bias Optimizers" in American Scientist Magazine, on the ethical, epistemological, and social implications of of GPT-type tools "A.I." writ large. (I'm (Particularly proud of these intro grafs.) Hope you enjoy it:
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/bias-optimizers
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/bias-optimizers
April 6, 2024 at 10:41 PM
If the US is serious about protecting people’s data from ending up in the hands of foreign adversaries, Congress should toss out the TikTok ban and instead pass comprehensive data privacy legislation to prevent the collection of data in the first place.
Congress Should Give Up on Unconstitutional TikTok Bans
Congress’ unfounded plan to ban TikTok under the guise of protecting our data is back, this time in the form of a new bill—the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications
www.eff.org
March 17, 2024 at 10:57 AM
If you missed my talk "Misinformation in the Age of 'AI'" at the Durham County Library, Digging down on dis-/misinformation, authoritarianism, generative "AI", the stakes for consensus reality, and what we can try to do about it, the recording is now up on the tubes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=THE5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=THE5...
July 8, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Boosting #philtech
I don't agree with Musk on much, but he was definitely right about it being a terrible idea for OpenAI to launch a cryptocurrency. @shakeelhashim.com with the scoop:
www.transformernews.ai/p/openai-ema...
www.transformernews.ai/p/openai-ema...
November 16, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Boosting #philtech
Meta blocked a newspaper’s critical report about it on Facebook and its other social sites for hours, sparking a backlash that intensified after the company appeared to subsequently block links to the website of an independent journalist who republished the report.
Meta is accused of censoring a non-profit newspaper and an independent journalist who criticized the company | CNN Business
Meta blocked a newspaper’s critical report about it on Facebook and its other social sites for hours, sparking a backlash that intensified after the company appeared to subsequently block links to the...
cnn.it
April 6, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Recently I've given a number of public talks on how information tech, including social media, is impacting our ability to make collective societal decisions.
But it was this Q&A session with Rob Brooks at @unsw.bsky.social that I think best captured the story I'm trying to tell. Full podcast here:
But it was this Q&A session with Rob Brooks at @unsw.bsky.social that I think best captured the story I'm trying to tell. Full podcast here:
The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World
Discover truth amidst misinformation with Carl Bergstrom and Rob Brooks.
unswcentreforideas.com
March 8, 2024 at 11:53 PM
I'm very excited to announce my first Postdoctoral publication in AI & Society entitled 'The Message Hidden Within the Pattern: A Reverse Alignment Problem for Debates in Artificial Intelligence'.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The message hidden within the pattern: a reverse alignment problem for debates in artificial intelligence - AI & SOCIETY
This paper explores what I call the reverse alignment problem (RAP). The alignment problem in artificial intelligence (AI) is the challenge of ensuring that superintelligent AI systems harmonize and p...
link.springer.com
April 30, 2026 at 9:39 AM