João Fonseca
@incerteza.bsky.social
Philosophy teacher (Porto, Portugal) 🇵🇹🇪🇺.
Philosophy of mind, bioethics, political philosophy and philosophy of technology. Critical Thinking.
https://joaofonseca.start.page
Philosophy of mind, bioethics, political philosophy and philosophy of technology. Critical Thinking.
https://joaofonseca.start.page
Tech Companies Have Created a Loneliness Doom Loop www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o... #technology #ethics #AI
Opinion | Tech Companies Have Created a Loneliness Doom Loop
www.nytimes.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Tech Companies Have Created a Loneliness Doom Loop www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o... #technology #ethics #AI
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Thank you to Clara Zetkin, philosopher and activist, for founding International Women's Day! Celebrating the day today with gratitude for her vision.
#philsky #19C #womenshistorymonth #internationalwomensday
#philsky #19C #womenshistorymonth #internationalwomensday
March 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Thank you to Clara Zetkin, philosopher and activist, for founding International Women's Day! Celebrating the day today with gratitude for her vision.
#philsky #19C #womenshistorymonth #internationalwomensday
#philsky #19C #womenshistorymonth #internationalwomensday
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Meanwhile, over in the non-Bluesky world...
February 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Meanwhile, over in the non-Bluesky world...
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Whilst short for such #complex #philosophy, these lectures are pleasant to consume. www.youtube.com/watc... #Schopenhauer #Existentialism #Nilihism
Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Idea
You can find The World as Will and Idea here https://amzn.to/3Pr7h8G
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February 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Whilst short for such #complex #philosophy, these lectures are pleasant to consume. www.youtube.com/watc... #Schopenhauer #Existentialism #Nilihism
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AI is getting better at sounding human – but at what cost?
In our upcoming Mini Philosophy interview, Jonathan Birch (@birchlse.bsky.social) explores the double-edged nature of emotional AI.
In our upcoming Mini Philosophy interview, Jonathan Birch (@birchlse.bsky.social) explores the double-edged nature of emotional AI.
February 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
AI is getting better at sounding human – but at what cost?
In our upcoming Mini Philosophy interview, Jonathan Birch (@birchlse.bsky.social) explores the double-edged nature of emotional AI.
In our upcoming Mini Philosophy interview, Jonathan Birch (@birchlse.bsky.social) explores the double-edged nature of emotional AI.
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This is madness. “For more than 300 years we have had a gold-plated copyright regime but now tech companies and government are saying it is unclear,” said Kidron. “Actually, it’s not unclear. Tech firms have come in, taken all copyrighted material, said ‘whoops it’s unclear’. But it is not unclear.”
February 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This is madness. “For more than 300 years we have had a gold-plated copyright regime but now tech companies and government are saying it is unclear,” said Kidron. “Actually, it’s not unclear. Tech firms have come in, taken all copyrighted material, said ‘whoops it’s unclear’. But it is not unclear.”
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Trump cancelled #AIethics in the US. He rescinded Executive Order 14110 of October 30, 2023 (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence). Very depressing. H/t @garymarcus.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Trump cancelled #AIethics in the US. He rescinded Executive Order 14110 of October 30, 2023 (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence). Very depressing. H/t @garymarcus.bsky.social
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"Many people are going to declare victory. They are going to say that AGI has been reached, and that's nonsense."
@GaryMarcus.bsky.social joined the @economist.com Babbage podcast to discuss what to expect in 2025.
@GaryMarcus.bsky.social joined the @economist.com Babbage podcast to discuss what to expect in 2025.
Does AI need a reality check? An interview with Gary Marcus
Our podcast on science and technology. Modern AI’s most energetic critic outlines his hopes for the technology in 2025
econ.st
January 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"Many people are going to declare victory. They are going to say that AGI has been reached, and that's nonsense."
@GaryMarcus.bsky.social joined the @economist.com Babbage podcast to discuss what to expect in 2025.
@GaryMarcus.bsky.social joined the @economist.com Babbage podcast to discuss what to expect in 2025.
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“Instead of focusing on the end product we need to focus on the social relationship between the plagiarizer and the source content. Plagiarizers take someone else’s content and try to pass it on as their own. That is exactly what these companies are doing” #AIEthics futureu.education/higher-ed/co...
COMMENTARY by Ulises A. Mejias: The Core of Gen-AI is Incompatible with Academic Integrity - Future U
By encouraging GenAI, we are directly undermining the principles we have been trying to instill in our students. Many years ago, I had a student whose written assignments were very hard to decipher. T...
futureu.education
January 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“Instead of focusing on the end product we need to focus on the social relationship between the plagiarizer and the source content. Plagiarizers take someone else’s content and try to pass it on as their own. That is exactly what these companies are doing” #AIEthics futureu.education/higher-ed/co...
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While we’re banning books…
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
January 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
While we’re banning books…
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
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Video recording of a talk I gave last month to the non-profit organization "GenAI Gurus": "Generative AI's Gappiness: Meaning, Authorship, and the Credit-Blame Asymmetry":
youtu.be/URG6nkMygHo?... #aiethics #philosophy #genai
youtu.be/URG6nkMygHo?... #aiethics #philosophy #genai
GenAI's Gappiness Meaning, Authorship and Credit Blame Asymmetry-14Nov2024
YouTube video by GenAI Gurus
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December 8, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Video recording of a talk I gave last month to the non-profit organization "GenAI Gurus": "Generative AI's Gappiness: Meaning, Authorship, and the Credit-Blame Asymmetry":
youtu.be/URG6nkMygHo?... #aiethics #philosophy #genai
youtu.be/URG6nkMygHo?... #aiethics #philosophy #genai
November 26, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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"None of us thought, when we invented social media, that we would become a threat to democracy." Not a great excuse. 1. It could've been designed better, with #AIEthics and #privacy in mind. 2. We could've improved it years ago, after learning from experience
www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt...
www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt...
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says AI will 'shape' identity and that 'normal people' are not ready for it
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in the future AI could be a child's best friend, shaping their identity and worldview.
www.businessinsider.com
November 24, 2024 at 6:14 PM
"None of us thought, when we invented social media, that we would become a threat to democracy." Not a great excuse. 1. It could've been designed better, with #AIEthics and #privacy in mind. 2. We could've improved it years ago, after learning from experience
www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt...
www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt...
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I don’t know who made this graphic but it’s pretty good.
November 14, 2024 at 12:05 AM
I don’t know who made this graphic but it’s pretty good.
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Postgrad funding, especially for masters, is scarce. We are trying to maximise its availability and reach. Follow this link for info on a new HPS Futures Studentship for Widening Participation in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine. Deadline Dec 3rd, tell your students! #philsci #histsci
Funding for postgraduate students | Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Some options for obtaining funding are given on this page. See the Cambridge Funding Search for details of other awards that are available. We recommend that you apply for all funding for which you ar...
www.hps.cam.ac.uk
October 24, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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Here’s the beginnings of a starter pack of philosophers who work on topics in love, intimacy, and relationships. go.bsky.app/AjUr2VS please let me know who else to add!
November 9, 2024 at 10:33 AM
Here’s the beginnings of a starter pack of philosophers who work on topics in love, intimacy, and relationships. go.bsky.app/AjUr2VS please let me know who else to add!
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Please send us your bright and curious BA students! The international two #MSc programme is a unique opportunity to dig deep into various disciplines and fields to study the interplay between #science, #technology, and #society ! Sign up here: www.utwente.nl/en/education... #PhilTech #PhilSci #STS
November 8, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Please send us your bright and curious BA students! The international two #MSc programme is a unique opportunity to dig deep into various disciplines and fields to study the interplay between #science, #technology, and #society ! Sign up here: www.utwente.nl/en/education... #PhilTech #PhilSci #STS
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Visiting fellowship in the Ethics of AI at University of Oxford:
#academicsky
www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fel...
#academicsky
www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fel...
Visiting Fellowship Policy | Ethics in AIUp arrow
www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk
November 7, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Visiting fellowship in the Ethics of AI at University of Oxford:
#academicsky
www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fel...
#academicsky
www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fel...
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This looks fantastic!
"In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern."
#STS #PhilTech #AIEthics
"In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern."
#STS #PhilTech #AIEthics
My latest on “The New Artificial Intelligentsia,” part of the Legacies of Eugenics series in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Thanks to all who read + share! lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
The New Artificial Intelligentsia | Los Angeles Review of Books
In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.
lareviewofbooks.org
October 18, 2024 at 4:47 PM
The power to question and generate curiosity
“In 1923, Sir Francis Walshe, a British neurologist, noticed something interesting while testing the reflexes of patients who were paralyzed on one side of their bodies. When they yawned, they would spontaneously recovered their motor functions."
“In 1923, Sir Francis Walshe, a British neurologist, noticed something interesting while testing the reflexes of patients who were paralyzed on one side of their bodies. When they yawned, they would spontaneously recovered their motor functions."
October 31, 2024 at 11:56 AM
The power to question and generate curiosity
“In 1923, Sir Francis Walshe, a British neurologist, noticed something interesting while testing the reflexes of patients who were paralyzed on one side of their bodies. When they yawned, they would spontaneously recovered their motor functions."
“In 1923, Sir Francis Walshe, a British neurologist, noticed something interesting while testing the reflexes of patients who were paralyzed on one side of their bodies. When they yawned, they would spontaneously recovered their motor functions."
“But in contrast to what neo-Stoic, post-Protestant, and neoliberal culture tries to tell us, it’s not just our fault if we fail. (...). We should also pay attention to the social and cultural environment that turns us into self-obsessed and eternally unhappy self..."—Mark Coeckelbergh #philsky
October 30, 2024 at 1:18 PM
“But in contrast to what neo-Stoic, post-Protestant, and neoliberal culture tries to tell us, it’s not just our fault if we fail. (...). We should also pay attention to the social and cultural environment that turns us into self-obsessed and eternally unhappy self..."—Mark Coeckelbergh #philsky
Embark on a voyage of thought and creativity. Where boundless skies ignite liberated minds. #Philsky #InspiredMinds
October 26, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Embark on a voyage of thought and creativity. Where boundless skies ignite liberated minds. #Philsky #InspiredMinds