Super excited to finally be able to share a project I've been working on for quite some time — a new paper on the Singularity Hypothesis! We argue that there are more good arguments for it and fewer good arguments against it than a lot of philosophers assume.

philpapers.org/archive/KIRR...

Philosophers and AI folks — I'm writing a paper on the singularity hypothesis, and I'm looking for some recent (i.e. since late 2024) expressions of skepticism about it from philosophers or ML folks that I can quote. The more well known the person, the better! Any ideas?

Social philosophers! Check out this short new paper in which I revisit my dilemmatic account of gaslighting and think about what kind of evidence should lead us to doubt our epistemic competence in different domains.

philpapers.org/rec/KIRGAE

Excited to share a new review paper I wrote with William D'Alessandro about the range of exciting philosophical and technical work currently being done on AI safety! Forthcoming at Philosophy Compass.

philpapers.org/archive/DALA...

Third, in "AI safety: A climb to Armageddon?" Herman Cappelen, Josh Dever, and John Hawthorne ask a question that gets far too little attention in AI safety: Could the work we're doing simply be ensuring that safety failures will be worse when they occur?

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Second, in "Off-Switching Not Guaranteed," Sven Neth describes a number of important problems for Stuart Russell's idea of provably beneficial AI.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

First, in "Bias, Machine Learning, and Conceptual Engineering," Rachel Rudolph and colleagues explore the connections between LLM training and conceptual engineering, with special attention to questions of bias.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Exicted to share *three* important new papers from the special issue on AI safety!

It's finally out! 👉 Click to find out whether YOUR AI assistant is a moral patient!

In all seriousness, though, this is an important project and I hope it helps advance discussion of the possible moral properties of artificial systems.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My paper "How to Solve the Gender Inclusion Problem" is now typeset and officially citable!

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Excited to share this paper by Christian Tarsney from the special issue on AI safety I'm editing. It defends a useful new account of deception and manipulation in AI systems.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

By now you've probably heard about AI safety — but have you ever wondered what AI safety actually *is*, or how it's related to AI ethics?

Well, you're in luck! Jacqueline Harding and I have a new paper answering these questions.

philpapers.org/archive/HARW...

Philosophers and AI folks — I'm excited to share a new paper on AI and catastrophic risk, coauthored with Adam Bales and Bill D'Alessandro, which is now forthcoming at Phil Compass!

philpapers.org/rec/BALAIA-5

I wrote a short explainer-type piece on the Turing Test with my colleague Simon Goldstein!

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