'AI Ethics and Individual Agency'
Insightful and interesting reflection by Hotel Bar Sessions podcast host Richard A. Lee, Jr. With useful pointers to other podcast contributions on 'Artificial Personhood' and the 'Rights of Nature.'
Quick read and well worth it.
hotelbarpodcast.com/ai-ethics-and-…

'The Ethics of Human-Robot Interaction.'
Excellent opportunity to see the incomparable Sven Nyholm in action. Registration is now open.

If I had a dollar for every time I have needed to remind researchers in #AI Ethics (and especially those who want to argue that #AI is 'just software') to read Deborah Johnson's agenda setting work on computer ethics, I could retire with a small fortune.

To what extent we still are Cartesian
As long as it is believed that #consciousness is an individual possession and that it is this essential property that grounds and justifies moral status, we remain within and unable to escape from the legacy and logic of Cartesian metaphysics

'Understanding Deception in the Age of #disinformation and #AI ' - Thrilled to announce that Simone Natale will provide the NIU Dept of Comm fall 2022 colloquium. 11 November 2022 at 10:00 CST. Online and open to the public.

The relational approach to ethics owes a major debt to ecofeminism. Anyone critiquing the relational approach will have the difficult task of explaining why they are upholding hierarchy and exclusion as ethical principles. See: Estévez-Saá & Lorenzo-Modia (2018)

Many of the qualifying properties that are assumed to be the necessary and sufficient condition for moral status are ableist. 'Intelligence' is not only no exception, it might be the test case.

New #HMC research on the role, function, and consequences of anthropomorphism in HRI. From Rinaldo Kühne and Jochen Peter and published in the International Communication Association journal 'Communication Theory.'
doi.org/10.1093/ct/qta…

Prawa potencjalnych cyfrowych osób w cyfrowym społeczeństwie / Rights of Possible Digital Persons in a Digital Society - New essay (in Polish) from Andrzej Stoiński and published in 'Zoon Politikon.'
ejournals.eu/Zoon-Politikon…

The performative contradiction of #AI Ethics
#AI Ethics focus attention on the technology of #AI and thereby risks shielding capitalism itself from critical reassessment. Instead of a critique of the tool as tool, #AI Ethics itself becomes a tool of corporate power.

The Relational Turn is a response to this question:
What if 'consciousness' is more of a political/ethical decision than it is an essential ontological property.
(With thanks to Rieks op den Akker)

'How would we know if machines were conscious?'
I discuss this question and its consequences with S.B. Divya ~ Pre-order MERU (sci fi author of 'Machinehood') today at 1pm (EST) for an event hosted by IEET and UMass Boston.

Join us on Zoom at: ieet.org/event/david-gu…

'Can we design artificial persons without being manipulative?' by Maciej Musiał and published in 'AI & Society' SpringerEthics The next installment in Musiał's ongoing examination of the moral opportunities/challenges of artificial servants.
doi.org/10.1007/s00146…

Let's be honest...
'terraforming' is really 'anthropoforming'