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🔍 Lecture 01 — The Art of Understanding
Before we teach machines to reason, we should ask ourselves: what is knowledge, really?
This opening lecture steps back from the algorithms and starts with first principles.
It's the philosophical foundation the rest of the course is built on. Bring your curiosity. Leave your assumptions at the door.
#KDAI2026 #AI #Epistemology #DataToKnowledge #SemanticWeb #KnowledgeRepresentation #MachineLearning #PhilosophyOfAI @fizise @fiz_karlsruhe

New paper: “Agency and Architectural Limits: Why Optimization-Based Systems Cannot Be Norm-Responsive.”
LLMs trained via RLHF are constitutive optimizers — every state transition is driven by scalar reward maximization. That architecture structurally prevents categorical norm-responsiveness (truth, moral boundaries, suspension under uncertainty).
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23239
#AIAlignment #AIGovernance #PhilosophyOfAI

🤖 Is Information Digital?

At the AI Colloquium, Edward A. Lee (UC Berkeley) explores whether objective observation can ever fully capture physical reality. 📡🌍

Using concepts from computer science & information theory, he argues that some knowledge may require embodied interaction – even for machines. 🚲🤖

📅 5 March | 13:00–15:00 | TU Dortmund

What are the limits of digital representation?

#AIColloquium #CyberPhysicalSystems #TrustworthyAI #PhilosophyOfAI

Photo: Hesham Elsherif/TU Dortmund

In the rush to scale neural networks, we have fallen into a category error: believing that a perfect simulation of an intelligent behavior is the same thing as the existence of intelligence itself.

https://www.ocrampal.com/chasing-our-own-tail-self-reference-infinite-regress-and-the-limits-of-any-academic-discipline/

#ArtificialIntelligence #PhilosophyOfAI #CognitiveScience

🚨 🎥 @Samsai is live on Owncast! 🎥
Catch the stream here: https://cast.samsai.eu/

#TalosPrinciple2 #DiningPhilosophersProblem #LiveStreamGaming #PhilosophyOfAI #owncast #livestream #twitch

Here's more, better warning. CFP due 20 December, full papers due mid May, meeting sometime in June 2026, in Paris! paris-conference.com/call-for-pap... #AIEthics #PhilosophyOfAI #EconomicsOfAI #SociologyOfAI #FutureOfWork #FutureOfHealth #FutureOfEducation #FoW #MentalHealth #genAI

Call for papers 2026 – Paris C...

Sorry for the rather late notice, but if you can get to Amsterdam for Thursday/Friday this week I **strongly** recommend this one #AIEthics #philosophyOfAI

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:drciza7vkdyxskvpu6d4sfgr/post/3lzq5jknzm22c

New blogpost! I put together notes on the Symbol Grounding Problem: https://dstrohmaier.com/Reflections-on-the-SGP/ #philosophyOfAI #NLP

I’m excited to be teaching #philosophy of #mind, with some #PhilosophyOfAI and #PhilPerception mixed in, at every level this year from first year through to Masters. I just hope I can keep track of what I’m supposed to be teaching to whom! 😅

With all the AI weirdness swirling around, and being low-key obsessed with the Hard Problem in philosophy…

I feel like now might be a good time to do some reading on Object Oriented Ontology. Some Graham Harman, Ian Bogost, etc.

#philosophy #PhilosophyOfAI

Ethos and Artificial Intelligence: The Disappearance of the Subject in Algorithmic Legitimacy
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15489309

This paper explores how algorithmic systems simulate legitimacy without invoking human subjectivity.
Read it here → https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15489309

#AcademicTwitter #AIethics #DiscourseAnalysis #AlgorithmicAuthority #OpenAccess #PhilosophyOfAI #Epistemology #Humanities #DigitalHumanities

If AI flunks François Chollet’s test, maybe it just struggles with colorful grids—not intelligence itself. #AI #AGI #Intelligence #Chollet #ARCAGI #PhilosophyOfAI

The Man Out to Prove How Dumb ...

The Leuven-Bonn-Delft Workshop on AI and Sustainability is about to start! Intro at 11 and first talk starts at 11.15. It's hybrid and you can still register to get the streaming link: https://www.kuleuven.be/ethics-kuleuven/chair-ai/workshop-sustainability
#PhilosophyOfAI #Sustainability

大規模言語モデルの推論的意味論的解釈について論じたプレプリントになります。反表象主義と論理的表出主義という推論主義の概念から、記号主義的パラダイムと現在の半記号主義的パラダイムを比較しています。 arxiv.org/abs/2412.14501 #LLM #philosophy #philosophyOfAI

Do Large Language Models Defen...

I'll speak at this event on AI and non-human entities at Heidelberg: https://philevents.org/event/show/125770 #AI #philosophy #philosophyofai

Amazing surprise #neuropod !!!

#BeyondPhrenology interviews
#MichaelLAnderson author of #AfterPhrenology
https://youtu.be/yEusfU6IWck

#SystemsNeuroscience
#PhilosophyOfNeuroscience
#PhilosophyOfMind
#PhilosophyOfAI
#Neuroscience
#neuroscienceresearch
#neuralReuse
#NetworkNeuroscience

My colleagues are organizing the Leuven-Bonn-Delft Workshop on AI and Sustainability on February 28th 2025. It will be held in Leuven as a hybrid event, so you can also participate online. Program and registration link: https://www.kuleuven.be/ethics-kuleuven/chair-ai/workshop-sustainability
#PhilosophyOfAI #Sustainability

An interesting initiative: sharing resources about Philosophy of AI / AI Ethics Syllabi, Lessons, Readings #philosophy #PhilosophyOfAI
https://dailynous.com/2024/12/10/philosophy-of-ai-ai-ethics-syllabi-lessons-readings/

Upcoming: Teaching a Masterclass on LLMs for Philosophers this week in Barcelona: http://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/colloquium_card.php?idSem=3356 #philosophy #philosophyOfAI #AI

#historians of #science and #computing, lately I've been seeing today's critics of AI suggesting the #intelligence in #artificialIntelligence can be more usefully understood as belonging in the framework of nation-state intelligence gathering.

Is there any indication that the founders of the field intended such an interpretation, or blurring of the definition of intelligence? The field was founded at the height of the #ColdWar after all.

#histodons #HistoryOfTechnology #PhilosophyOfAI