Fascinating new paper from Sven Nyholm on the effects of gamification on agency and responsibility. While many people have discussed the ethics of gamification, Sven addresses a neglected aspect of it link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Interesting (and already widely commented upon) paper about the positive effects of banning smartphone use in Norwegian schools. More research needed to see if the effect holds up, of course papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Today's talk on AI in research 🤷‍♂️

Does the insufferable hype around AI also make you want to be a Luddite? Yet, at the same time you want to cultivate a positive stance towards our relation with technology?

Join our reading group on Positive Luddism, co-organised by Alberto Romele and Critical Data Lab

Who are some of the most critical people of Twitter still actively using it? If it’s you, let me know if I could do a brief interview with you for a new project. (Related to this: link.springer.com/article/10.100…)

This is a great paper on the mechanisms of AI hype and its social and environmental costs (speaking as someone often criticised for fomenting hype) link.springer.com/article/10.100…

It’s that time of year again! As I spend the next few weeks grading a seemingly endless pile of exam scripts, it seems appropriate to dust of this essay - The Moral Problem of Grading …ilosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-mo…

1. What are the ethical and societal implications of advanced AI assistants? What might change in a world with more agentic AI?

Our new paper explores these questions:
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It’s the result of a one year research collaboration involving 50+ researchers… a🧵

What should you do with your life? Is work bad? Is technology making it worse? These are just some of the questions posed to me by Utkarsh Amitabh for his Network Capital podcast networkcapital.tv/course/john-da…

It was a pleasure hosting John Danaher on Network Capital

My dissertation builds on his work and I am glad we could discuss a wide range of topics including but not limited to

✅The ethics of career choice

✅Critical analysis of the structural badness of work

✅AI ethics and…

In my head, when I'm talking, I sound really excited and passionate about what I'm saying. Apparently, the experience from the listeners' perspective is very different - 'one of the most boring people I have ever heard' (according to one, memorable, bit of student feedback)

Evergreen content (sadly)

Most cited scholar in history? Prof 'et al' of course - 4 million citations and counting. scholar.google.nl/citations?user…

🧵Did Jesus rise from the Dead?🧵

Happy Easter everyone. The resurrection is one of the central tenets of Christianity.

Here is a list of good scholarly and philosophical resources that take a skeptical perspective on the resurrection:

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7 (obvs)