"Philosophy, AI and Society Network's goals align with ours: to draw on the rigour and depth of philosophy and the humanities in addressing the critical moral and political questions posed by the rapid rise of AI," says John Tasioulas of The Institute for Ethics in AI

Great opportunity here!

In our latest story, we look back at the inaugural #TorontoSRI Faculty Fellows: Kristen Bos (Technoscience Research Unit), Sasho Nikolov ([email protected]), Nisarg Shah, & Karina Vold, and the work they did to build bridges between disciplines and forge new areas of research. Read: bit.ly/3v6bIOk

You can watch Seth Lazar's Kamm Lecture in Ethics, The Nature and Justification of Algorithmic Power, on our youtube! youtu.be/wjThWUaQogc Seth Lazar Philosophy, AI and Society Network

🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦 Register by April 30 for the #FAccT22 early bird rate! facctconference.org/2022/Registrat… It's great to see that many members of our community are planning to attend in person—see you in Seoul! 🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦

(1/n) Registration for the AI, Ethics, and Society Conference AI, Ethics, and Society Conference (AIES) in Oxford, Aug. 1-3, 2022, is now open, including accommodation! For those who don't want to wait for the details to appear on the website, this sequence of tweets has the details. Please share! The Institute for Ethics in AI

Here's how a seemingly trivial design change can totally alter the character of a social media app. A few years ago Twitter changed the relatively neutral ⭐ button to a positive ❤️. Ironically, this may have worsened Twitter's tendency to propagate outrage. Why is that?

MINT is recruiting PhD students! Get in touch now to start making a plan—keen to support folks looking to work on the moral and political philosophy of data and AI (mintlab.site)

Getting ready to ✈️ to Seoul 🇰🇷 for ACM FAccT! Can’t wait to FINALLY hang out in person with my amazing Publicity Co-Chair Deb Raji & everyone else who’s attending in person! DM me if you’re going too & would like to chat about #PhilosophyofAI stuff ✨🤖

Looking forward to seeing *everyone*, and especially to seeing young philosophers engaging with the ACM FAccT community in the PAIS spirit at #FAccT22. Shout out to Annette Zimmermann @errantcanadian Deborah Hellman and many others (whether in Seoul or online)

A couple of the great philosophy papers at this year's ACM FAccT

Thoughts from Seth Lazar on priorities for philosophers working on ethics and AI.

This should be great!

Excited for this Philosophy, AI and Society workshop at Stanford, January 27-28, aiming to bring together scholars—especially early career—working on the moral and political philosophy of AI and related technologies. CFP: mintresearch.org/pais

Hey are you working at the intersection of philosophy, society, and AI and related digital tech? Want to know/share about events, research activity, etc? With social media collapsing it’s time to get a listserv going again. Sign up here: mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listin…

MINT Lab and The Institute for Ethics in AI are collaborating for a Doctoral Colloquium on Philosophy, AI and Society. Aimed at PhD students (and recent grads) doing empirically- and technically-grounded, philosophically rich work on AI and related technologies. CFA: mintresearch.org/paisdc

A nice write-up by Kyle van Oosterum of our fabulous Philosophy, AI and Society Network doctoral colloquium which was held in Oxford earlier this month. PhD students working on ethics of AI should follow Philosophy, AI and Society Network for news of next year's colloquium. oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/pais-doctoral-…

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