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New work:
The Structural Conditions for the Existence of a Universe.
A scale‑invariant meta‑architecture showing how identity, agency, and coherence emerge from negative possibility and operator‑exclusion — up to cosmological scale.
https://philpapers.org/rec/JONTSC-3
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20280081
#systemsTheory #metaArchitecture #emergence #identity #agency #structuralOntology #cosmos #philosophyOfAI
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Limitations ne sont pas une faiblesse.
Elles sont la source du sens.
Nouvelle publication : comment les contraintes donnent un sens au monde et permettent un comportement véritablement vivant.
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Nous ne percevons pas le monde « tel qu’il est », mais dans notre propre lumière — à travers la prism de nos limitations et capacités.
C’est précisément cette limitation qui transforme le bruit en signification.
#xai #xAIGrok #PhilosophyOfAI #philosophie #agi #limitation
Yesterday's "Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious" by
Emanuel Maiberg
https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116477146632700175 -> https://www.404media.co/google-deepmind-paper-argues-llms-will-never-be-conscious/
pairs well with this discussion of meaning in the tradition of phenomenology: "The Structure of Meaning in Experience: Rediscovering that which has been lost"
by Jacob Bell. From 2021 and not about LLMs, but:
"Meaning is, however, difficult to make explicit in language."
https://zirk.us/@epochemagazine/116481024724310970 -> https://epochemagazine.org/44/the-structure-of-meaning-in-experience-rediscovering-that-which-has-been-lost/
🔍 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.
🚨 🎥 @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
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
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New blogpost! I put together notes on the Symbol Grounding Problem: https://dstrohmaier.com/Reflections-on-the-SGP/ #philosophyOfAI #NLP
Take home message for #philosophy hiring committees: don’t hire a philosopher of #AI. Hire an ethicist, semanticist, philosopher of technology, mind, etc., who does good work in the relevant areas. The rest is window dressing (as I believe @sebastianwatzl.bsky.social was suggesting). #PhilosophyOfAI
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! 😅
Could AI destroy civilisation?
Not through war, not through code gone rogue—but perhaps through something far more familiar.
A reflection on trust, simulation, and the line between help and surrender.
https://pedroinnecco.com/2025/07/death-by-approximation-can-ai-destroy-civilisation/
#AI #AIethics #AIsafety #HumanJudgement #DigitalSociety #PhilosophyOfAI
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.
🤖 Your AI Isn’t Smart. It Just Obeys.
Most users mistake LLM outputs for intelligence. But these systems don’t understand — they execute.
What we call “smart” is often just perfect syntactic obedience.
📖 Read:
https://medium.com/@agustinstartari/your-ai-isnt-smart-it-just-obeys-47c6d021701a
#AI #ChatGPT #PromptEngineering #Obedience #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #CriticalTech #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 ...
Can AI truly be conscious? 🤔 Explores AI's "embodiment paradox" & the challenges of defining consciousness in machines. Do AI systems need metabolic autonomy? Is "relational intelligence" a better way of framing AI awareness? Explore these ideas: https://cv3.com/consciousness-and-code-exploring-the-metaphysical-nature-of-artificial-intelligence/ #AIConsciousness #PhilosophyofAI
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
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.
We are looking for a postdoc to work with us on philosophical, social and technical issues within Social AI (or socially-aware AI), here at the Centre for Transdisciplinary AI in Umeå.
Please help spread the word to anyone you think might be interested!
Quick reminder about this event coming up next Friday. For those unlucky enough not to be in Umeå then, you can also join online!
*Is LLM Meaning an illusion?* by philosopher Jessica Pepp
Info here: https://www.umu.se/en/events/fraiday-is-llm-meaning-an-illusion_11933686/
Two AI and Humanities hybrid events upcoming in Umeå!
1. Friday May 10th, 12:15-13:00 - Philosopher Jessica Pepp on "Is LLM Meaning an illusion?"
https://www.umu.se/en/events/fraiday-is-llm-meaning-an-illusion_11933686/
2. Friday May 24th, 14:15-15:45 - Panel on "The stories we tell (and are told) about AI", with a great interdisciplinary cast: Karin Danielsson, Simon Lindgren, Berit Åström, and Karin Neutel
https://www.umu.se/en/events/the-stories-we-tell-and-are-told-about-ai_11930541/
I hope to see many of you there, in person or online!
R.I.P. Daniel Dennett.
An influential modern voice on the question of Philosophy and AI, especially with the idea of the intentional stance.
https://dailynous.com/2024/04/19/daniel-dennett-death-1942-2024/
@lucianofloridi Tried it briefly. Mixed feelings. It is a *very* different thing for you as the author and for us who aren't well acquainted with your thinking. The "glue" in the trains of thought seems to be missing at times, and understanding becomes almost impossible compared to reading your raw texts. A somewhat unreal feeling I cannot specify just yet. I haven't tried ChatGPT or the like, though did follow the development of AI out of the conner of my eye since the 80's and am well-acquainted with AI-related entries in, e.g., the SEP and IEP.
Very interesting (and very long thread) by @pluralistic on AI, LLM booby-traps, and 'reverse-centaurism'
Good stuff by @raphaelmilliere on the limits of benchmark testing in AI, and the dangers of overrelying on them and overestimating their value.
Ok then, my #PhilosophyOfAI students heard about OpenAI’s humanoid and are itching to connect it to our brief discussions of embodiment. What should I tell them? https://newatlas.com/robotics/figure-01-openai-humanoid-robot-real-time-conversations
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#TheBrainAbstracted povides citations from cool authors in #neurodon #neuroscience #SystemsNeuroscience #PhilosophyOfNeuroscience
#PhilosophyOfAI #philosophyofmind
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