pak-hang wong, phd
@drybis.bsky.social
asst prof at hong kong baptist university, philosopher and ethicist of technology; co-editor of harmonious technology: a confucian ethics of technology; rants are strictly personal. #philtech
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pak-hang wong, phd
@drybis.bsky.social
· Sep 22
After Harm: A Plea for Moral Repair after Algorithms Have Failed - Science and Engineering Ethics
In response to growing concerns over the societal impacts of AI and algorithmic decision-making, current scholarly and legal efforts have mainly focused on identifying risks and implementing safeguard...
doi.org
New paper is out! After Harm: A Plea for Moral Repair after Algorithms Have Failed.
@aktant.bsky.social & I show that post-harm scenarios have not received enough attention and argue why attending to them is essential for a satisfactory account of AI ethics and governance.
doi.org/10.1007/s119...
@aktant.bsky.social & I show that post-harm scenarios have not received enough attention and argue why attending to them is essential for a satisfactory account of AI ethics and governance.
doi.org/10.1007/s119...
Article in Chinese on AI and affective injustice through the case of Moxie's decommission.
#EmotionalAI #AIEthics #PhilTech
#EmotionalAI #AIEthics #PhilTech
October 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Article in Chinese on AI and affective injustice through the case of Moxie's decommission.
#EmotionalAI #AIEthics #PhilTech
#EmotionalAI #AIEthics #PhilTech
New paper is out! After Harm: A Plea for Moral Repair after Algorithms Have Failed.
@aktant.bsky.social & I show that post-harm scenarios have not received enough attention and argue why attending to them is essential for a satisfactory account of AI ethics and governance.
doi.org/10.1007/s119...
@aktant.bsky.social & I show that post-harm scenarios have not received enough attention and argue why attending to them is essential for a satisfactory account of AI ethics and governance.
doi.org/10.1007/s119...
After Harm: A Plea for Moral Repair after Algorithms Have Failed - Science and Engineering Ethics
In response to growing concerns over the societal impacts of AI and algorithmic decision-making, current scholarly and legal efforts have mainly focused on identifying risks and implementing safeguard...
doi.org
September 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
New paper is out! After Harm: A Plea for Moral Repair after Algorithms Have Failed.
@aktant.bsky.social & I show that post-harm scenarios have not received enough attention and argue why attending to them is essential for a satisfactory account of AI ethics and governance.
doi.org/10.1007/s119...
@aktant.bsky.social & I show that post-harm scenarios have not received enough attention and argue why attending to them is essential for a satisfactory account of AI ethics and governance.
doi.org/10.1007/s119...
SPT SIG Virtue Ethics Symposium starts! We are in a different building (Atlas 2.015—there is a bridge from Auditorium to reach us) but do come listening to some exciting talks if you are interested in virtue ethics.
#SPT2025
#SPT2025
June 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
SPT SIG Virtue Ethics Symposium starts! We are in a different building (Atlas 2.015—there is a bridge from Auditorium to reach us) but do come listening to some exciting talks if you are interested in virtue ethics.
#SPT2025
#SPT2025
#SPT2025 is happening in Eindhoven next week! I'll present a paper on the ethics of digital doppelgangers at the symposium organised by SPT SIG Virtue Ethics. Looking forward to meeting old and new friends!
#PhilTech #TechEthics
#PhilTech #TechEthics
June 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
#SPT2025 is happening in Eindhoven next week! I'll present a paper on the ethics of digital doppelgangers at the symposium organised by SPT SIG Virtue Ethics. Looking forward to meeting old and new friends!
#PhilTech #TechEthics
#PhilTech #TechEthics
This is the latest addition to my on-going project on Confucian Ethics of Technology. In this paper, I move beyond the normative resources in the early Confucian to Neo-Confucian philosophy. Looking forward to sharing the ideas at CEACOP.
#TechEthics #AIEthics #PhilTech
#TechEthics #AIEthics #PhilTech
March 24, 2025 at 6:42 AM
This is the latest addition to my on-going project on Confucian Ethics of Technology. In this paper, I move beyond the normative resources in the early Confucian to Neo-Confucian philosophy. Looking forward to sharing the ideas at CEACOP.
#TechEthics #AIEthics #PhilTech
#TechEthics #AIEthics #PhilTech
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New book on #AIEthics from #EasternPhilosophy and #WesternPhilosophy perspectives! With contributions from @drybis.bsky.social , @kiwigreenflame.bsky.social , @karenhao.bsky.social , and many more!!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Social and Ethical Considerations of AI in East Asia and Beyond
This book is a global reflection on disparate religious and philosophical approaches to questions of AI and ways questions affect East Asian societies
link.springer.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
New book on #AIEthics from #EasternPhilosophy and #WesternPhilosophy perspectives! With contributions from @drybis.bsky.social , @kiwigreenflame.bsky.social , @karenhao.bsky.social , and many more!!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Confucian 'Trustworthy AI', my 2nd publication of 2025.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Filed in #AIEthics #ConfucianEthics #ConfucianPhilTech #ConfucianTechEthics
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Filed in #AIEthics #ConfucianEthics #ConfucianPhilTech #ConfucianTechEthics
Confucian ‘Trustworthy AI’: Diversifying a Keyword in the Ethics of AI and Governance
The term ‘trustworthy AI’ has become one of the keywords in the academic and policy discussion of the social, ethical, and legal issues of artificial intelligence (AI), but it remains a co...
link.springer.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Confucian 'Trustworthy AI', my 2nd publication of 2025.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Filed in #AIEthics #ConfucianEthics #ConfucianPhilTech #ConfucianTechEthics
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Happy to announce that Communicative AI, the book about #LLMs I wrote with @davidgunkel.bsky.social and that will soon be published by @politybooks.bsky.social, will simultaneously be published in Finnish (by Terra Cognita)
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
www.politybooks.com
February 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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#UCD School of Philosophy is looking for a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the #Ethics and #Philosophy of Technology for a prestigious 5-year fellowship leading to a permanent position (subject to satisfactory performance). #PhilTech #PhilSci #AIEthics #PhilJobs www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n...
Ad Astra Fellow in Ethics and Philosophy of Technology - UCD School of Philosophy
www.ucd.ie
February 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
#UCD School of Philosophy is looking for a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the #Ethics and #Philosophy of Technology for a prestigious 5-year fellowship leading to a permanent position (subject to satisfactory performance). #PhilTech #PhilSci #AIEthics #PhilJobs www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n...
If true, this spells the end of policy-relevant philosophy and ethics, not to mention Tech Ethics and related topics (more so if it applies to humanities and social sciences funding agencies).
Files in #TechEthics #PhilTech
Files in #TechEthics #PhilTech
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 4:39 AM
If true, this spells the end of policy-relevant philosophy and ethics, not to mention Tech Ethics and related topics (more so if it applies to humanities and social sciences funding agencies).
Files in #TechEthics #PhilTech
Files in #TechEthics #PhilTech
Andrew Ng: "If the U.S. continues to stymie open source, China will come to dominate this part of the supply chain and many businesses will end up using ***models that reflect China’s values*** much more than America’s"
Filed in #AIEthics #InterculturalAIEthics
Filed in #AIEthics #InterculturalAIEthics
Reinforcement Learning Heats Up, White House Orders Muscular AI Policy, and more...
The Batch AI News and Insights: The buzz over DeepSeek this week crystallized, for many people, a few important trends that have been happening in...
www.deeplearning.ai
January 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Andrew Ng: "If the U.S. continues to stymie open source, China will come to dominate this part of the supply chain and many businesses will end up using ***models that reflect China’s values*** much more than America’s"
Filed in #AIEthics #InterculturalAIEthics
Filed in #AIEthics #InterculturalAIEthics
(Read: Let's not learn anything hard but only gratify instantly.)
#Filed in #AIEthics #TechEthics #PhilTech #Deskilling
#Filed in #AIEthics #TechEthics #PhilTech #Deskilling
CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don’t Like Making Music
"I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music.”
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM
(Read: Let's not learn anything hard but only gratify instantly.)
#Filed in #AIEthics #TechEthics #PhilTech #Deskilling
#Filed in #AIEthics #TechEthics #PhilTech #Deskilling
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Hey folks! I have a chance to promote new books on AI/tech that deserve attention this year. Looking for books that will offer a critical or novel perspective, not empty hype, and that are engaging for non-academics as well as researchers. Anything w/release date before August. What do you suggest?
January 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Hey folks! I have a chance to promote new books on AI/tech that deserve attention this year. Looking for books that will offer a critical or novel perspective, not empty hype, and that are engaging for non-academics as well as researchers. Anything w/release date before August. What do you suggest?
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Philosophy and science fiction syllabus for the 2nd round of the classs! Two big differences to other Phil+sci-fi syllabi: it's for upper division students, not intro; no pairing with 'normal' philosophy readings, just using the SFF as philosophical texts. Very discussion focused
#philsky #philsci
#philsky #philsci
Phil 331 syllabus spring 2024.pdf
drive.google.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Semester starts next week, so it's time to finalize the topics for the course *Contemporary Ethical Problems*, and I think I am settling on:
- Procreation and antinatalism
- Future persons
- Meaning of Life
- Casual relations and technology
- Self-porn
[...]
- Procreation and antinatalism
- Future persons
- Meaning of Life
- Casual relations and technology
- Self-porn
[...]
January 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Semester starts next week, so it's time to finalize the topics for the course *Contemporary Ethical Problems*, and I think I am settling on:
- Procreation and antinatalism
- Future persons
- Meaning of Life
- Casual relations and technology
- Self-porn
[...]
- Procreation and antinatalism
- Future persons
- Meaning of Life
- Casual relations and technology
- Self-porn
[...]
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Save the date 19-20 June 2025 in Rotterdam and submit an abstract before 15 February 2025 ! We also welcome artistic submissions!
more info here: www.eur.nl/en/news/call...
#AI #criminology #digitalcriminology
@marcschuilenburg.bsky.social
more info here: www.eur.nl/en/news/call...
#AI #criminology #digitalcriminology
@marcschuilenburg.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Save the date 19-20 June 2025 in Rotterdam and submit an abstract before 15 February 2025 ! We also welcome artistic submissions!
more info here: www.eur.nl/en/news/call...
#AI #criminology #digitalcriminology
@marcschuilenburg.bsky.social
more info here: www.eur.nl/en/news/call...
#AI #criminology #digitalcriminology
@marcschuilenburg.bsky.social
"Images, Moral Feelings, and Rites"—a new paper on Confucian #PhilTech published. In this paper, Xiaowei Wang and I outline a Confucian approach to human-technology relations and put Confucian philosophy in dialogue with postphenomenology directly.
Enjoy and let us know what you think!
Enjoy and let us know what you think!
January 7, 2025 at 3:41 AM
"Images, Moral Feelings, and Rites"—a new paper on Confucian #PhilTech published. In this paper, Xiaowei Wang and I outline a Confucian approach to human-technology relations and put Confucian philosophy in dialogue with postphenomenology directly.
Enjoy and let us know what you think!
Enjoy and let us know what you think!
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This is funny because I was recently marveling at how much knobs/dials on appliances rock. Especially when they have some weight/resistance - they tell your body you’re doing a thing. Incredibly physically and mentally satisfying compared to anything I have to do by tapping on an app
I don't want my fridge to have a camera or Wi-Fi. I don't want my dishwasher to be smart. I don't want my washing machine to text me.
In fact, I kinda miss knobs and dials and knowing big appliances would last 20 years and could still be repaired.
In fact, I kinda miss knobs and dials and knowing big appliances would last 20 years and could still be repaired.
January 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This is funny because I was recently marveling at how much knobs/dials on appliances rock. Especially when they have some weight/resistance - they tell your body you’re doing a thing. Incredibly physically and mentally satisfying compared to anything I have to do by tapping on an app
Whitepaper on the concept of an #Agent in Generative AI by Google. www.kaggle.com/whitepaper-a...
Filed in #AIAgents #PhilTech
Filed in #AIAgents #PhilTech
Agents
Authors: Julia Wiesinger, Patrick Marlow and Vladimir Vuskovic
www.kaggle.com
January 6, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Whitepaper on the concept of an #Agent in Generative AI by Google. www.kaggle.com/whitepaper-a...
Filed in #AIAgents #PhilTech
Filed in #AIAgents #PhilTech
Filed in #TechEthics #Sustainability
Average user generates greenhouse gases equal to driving an extra 123 miles in gasoline-powered car a year, data shows www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
TikTok’s annual carbon footprint is likely bigger than Greece’s, study finds
Average user generates greenhouse gases equal to driving an extra 123 miles in gasoline-powered car a year, data shows
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2024 at 7:58 AM
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