Lucy Osler
@lucyosler.bsky.social
Philosopher at University of Exeter, 4e and phenomenological approaches to AI, digital technology, online sociality, emotions, phenomenological psychopathology, feminism. she/they
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Lucy Osler
@lucyosler.bsky.social
· Nov 17
AI-induced psychosis: the danger of humans and machines hallucinating together
We’ve always relied on friends and family to confirm our sense of reality. Now we’re increasingly expecting AIs to do it instead.
theconversation.com
Our sense of reality is intimately entwined with our interactions with other people. What happens when those interactions are instead with social AI? See my piece on (so-called) ‘AI-induced psychosis’ in The Conversation
theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...
theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...
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“feral gossip” is such an excellent coinage from @lucyosler.bsky.social and @joelkrueger.com to describe the way LLMs amplify gossip about real people as they pass slop back and forth between training sets.
www.vice.com/en/article/a...
www.vice.com/en/article/a...
AI Chatbots Are Quietly Trading Gossip About People With Zero Fact-Checking
AI chatbots already say questionable things to humans. Now, they may be swapping those same questionable takes with each other.
www.vice.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:20 PM
“feral gossip” is such an excellent coinage from @lucyosler.bsky.social and @joelkrueger.com to describe the way LLMs amplify gossip about real people as they pass slop back and forth between training sets.
www.vice.com/en/article/a...
www.vice.com/en/article/a...
The AI gossip paper @joelkrueger.com and I wrote got picked up by Vice! We argue that chatbots generate gossip about people and consider how this gossip becomes ‘feral’ without the social constraints that usually moderate human rumor-spreading
🗣️🤖💬🫢
www.vice.com/en/article/a...
🗣️🤖💬🫢
www.vice.com/en/article/a...
AI Chatbots Are Quietly Trading Gossip About People With Zero Fact-Checking
AI chatbots already say questionable things to humans. Now, they may be swapping those same questionable takes with each other.
www.vice.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The AI gossip paper @joelkrueger.com and I wrote got picked up by Vice! We argue that chatbots generate gossip about people and consider how this gossip becomes ‘feral’ without the social constraints that usually moderate human rumor-spreading
🗣️🤖💬🫢
www.vice.com/en/article/a...
🗣️🤖💬🫢
www.vice.com/en/article/a...
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Daisy Dixon and I have a friendly-critical review of Dominic Lopes’s *Aesthetic Injustice* out in the new issue of Ethics.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Lopes, Dominic McIver. Aesthetic Injustice. Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. 208. $100.00 (cloth). | Ethics: Vol 136, No 2
www.journals.uchicago.edu
December 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Daisy Dixon and I have a friendly-critical review of Dominic Lopes’s *Aesthetic Injustice* out in the new issue of Ethics.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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We’re at the 63rd Maudsley Debate on ‘The Chatbot will see you now: This house believes AI will do more harm than good to the nation's mental health. #MaudsleyDebate
December 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We’re at the 63rd Maudsley Debate on ‘The Chatbot will see you now: This house believes AI will do more harm than good to the nation's mental health. #MaudsleyDebate
Loving the anachronistic mood of getting ready for a Christmas debate later today! Paired with a good old fashioned risk of a family argument, as my dad’s attending 🫣
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/63rd-mauds...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/63rd-mauds...
63rd Maudsley Debate
The Chatbot will see you now: This house believes AI will do more harm than good to the nation's mental health.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Loving the anachronistic mood of getting ready for a Christmas debate later today! Paired with a good old fashioned risk of a family argument, as my dad’s attending 🫣
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/63rd-mauds...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/63rd-mauds...
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Three AHRC PhD Scholarships available for Humanities subjects at Exeter, including Philosophy! February deadline, see link for details:
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
PhD: AHRC Studentship | University of Exeter
Project descriptionThe University of Exeter is offering up to three fully funded AHRC doctoral studentships and training and development opportunities across a range of the AHRC’s disciplines for cand...
www.exeter.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Three AHRC PhD Scholarships available for Humanities subjects at Exeter, including Philosophy! February deadline, see link for details:
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Cheeky little chapter on Knowing oneself with and through AI for an edited volume forthcoming in 2026 🤗
Had fun playing around with the move from Clark and Chalmers’ Otto to Rob Clowes’ Cloud-Otto to my LLM-Otto 📓☁️🤖
Had fun playing around with the move from Clark and Chalmers’ Otto to Rob Clowes’ Cloud-Otto to my LLM-Otto 📓☁️🤖
Lucy Osler: Knowing oneself with and through AI: From self-tracking to chatbots https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03682 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.03682 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.03682
December 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Cheeky little chapter on Knowing oneself with and through AI for an edited volume forthcoming in 2026 🤗
Had fun playing around with the move from Clark and Chalmers’ Otto to Rob Clowes’ Cloud-Otto to my LLM-Otto 📓☁️🤖
Had fun playing around with the move from Clark and Chalmers’ Otto to Rob Clowes’ Cloud-Otto to my LLM-Otto 📓☁️🤖
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Really excited to be organising this one. Such a fantastic group of speakers. I can’t wait to discuss with them about what atmospheres are, how they unfold and why they matter.
With @lucyosler.bsky.social @keithallenyork.bsky.social @reaveyp.bsky.social
@joelkrueger.com
@reaveyp.bsky.social
With @lucyosler.bsky.social @keithallenyork.bsky.social @reaveyp.bsky.social
@joelkrueger.com
@reaveyp.bsky.social
Affective Atmospheres
18–19 Feb 2026, Glasgow
Supported by Royal Institute of Philosophy
In-person conference bringing together philosophy, anthropology, geography, art, architecture & psychology.
Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK...
More info placememory.net/affective-at...
Art Jinjoon Lee ©2025
18–19 Feb 2026, Glasgow
Supported by Royal Institute of Philosophy
In-person conference bringing together philosophy, anthropology, geography, art, architecture & psychology.
Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK...
More info placememory.net/affective-at...
Art Jinjoon Lee ©2025
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Really excited to be organising this one. Such a fantastic group of speakers. I can’t wait to discuss with them about what atmospheres are, how they unfold and why they matter.
With @lucyosler.bsky.social @keithallenyork.bsky.social @reaveyp.bsky.social
@joelkrueger.com
@reaveyp.bsky.social
With @lucyosler.bsky.social @keithallenyork.bsky.social @reaveyp.bsky.social
@joelkrueger.com
@reaveyp.bsky.social
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New from the band formerly known as Hearing the Voice...a short paper about felt presence and early psychosis.
We report some basic links to things like fear and quoted examples from our "Voices in Psychosis" study 1/3
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We report some basic links to things like fear and quoted examples from our "Voices in Psychosis" study 1/3
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Experiences of felt presence in first episode psychosis - Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia - Experiences of felt presence in first episode psychosis
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
New from the band formerly known as Hearing the Voice...a short paper about felt presence and early psychosis.
We report some basic links to things like fear and quoted examples from our "Voices in Psychosis" study 1/3
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We report some basic links to things like fear and quoted examples from our "Voices in Psychosis" study 1/3
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Abstract deadline tomorrow if anyone is interested in joining us in Exeter in February to talk all things Social AI!
✨CFA✨
I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!
Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!
Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Abstract deadline tomorrow if anyone is interested in joining us in Exeter in February to talk all things Social AI!
Our sense of reality is intimately entwined with our interactions with other people. What happens when those interactions are instead with social AI? See my piece on (so-called) ‘AI-induced psychosis’ in The Conversation
theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...
theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...
AI-induced psychosis: the danger of humans and machines hallucinating together
We’ve always relied on friends and family to confirm our sense of reality. Now we’re increasingly expecting AIs to do it instead.
theconversation.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Our sense of reality is intimately entwined with our interactions with other people. What happens when those interactions are instead with social AI? See my piece on (so-called) ‘AI-induced psychosis’ in The Conversation
theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...
theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...
Reposted by Lucy Osler
✨CFA✨
I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!
Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!
Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
October 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
✨CFA✨
I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!
Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!
Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
Reposted by Lucy Osler
Three weeks left to submit to our conference in June 2026 -- submit your abstract via this form!
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Three weeks left to submit to our conference in June 2026 -- submit your abstract via this form!
✨CFA✨
I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!
Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!
Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
October 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
✨CFA✨
I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!
Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!
Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
Reposted by Lucy Osler
🎈Book launch!
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by Jonathan Webber
Wednesday 12 November 2025 : 18:00 - 19:30
Oat & Bean, 26 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA
Everyone is welcome! No need to register. Just turn up!
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by Jonathan Webber
Wednesday 12 November 2025 : 18:00 - 19:30
Oat & Bean, 26 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA
Everyone is welcome! No need to register. Just turn up!
October 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
🎈Book launch!
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by Jonathan Webber
Wednesday 12 November 2025 : 18:00 - 19:30
Oat & Bean, 26 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA
Everyone is welcome! No need to register. Just turn up!
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by Jonathan Webber
Wednesday 12 November 2025 : 18:00 - 19:30
Oat & Bean, 26 Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3BA
Everyone is welcome! No need to register. Just turn up!
Getting packed up for my visit to the Human Abilities Center in Berlin 🤗 among other things, I’ll be running this awesome workshop with Jan Slaby on ‘The Self as a Political Problem’ - check out the amazing speaker list and do sign up if you want to join us (limited spots available) ✨
October 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Getting packed up for my visit to the Human Abilities Center in Berlin 🤗 among other things, I’ll be running this awesome workshop with Jan Slaby on ‘The Self as a Political Problem’ - check out the amazing speaker list and do sign up if you want to join us (limited spots available) ✨
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Check out the latest issue from affiliated journal Passion, the SI 'Emotions—More Like Stars or Constellations?', edited by Heidy Meriste and Bruno Mölder (Tartu). The issue asks how to categorize emotions, and how much weight should we put on the study of folk emotion concepts. Open access! /1
October 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Check out the latest issue from affiliated journal Passion, the SI 'Emotions—More Like Stars or Constellations?', edited by Heidy Meriste and Bruno Mölder (Tartu). The issue asks how to categorize emotions, and how much weight should we put on the study of folk emotion concepts. Open access! /1
Reposted by Lucy Osler
CrAIC Launch Workshop is a success! 🌟
Our two-day event @exeter.ac.uk was packed full of great presentations and conversations. We're really excited to build on the connections made, grow our network, and push forward this research in Critical AI together.
Quick wrap up of the sessions in thread 🧵
Our two-day event @exeter.ac.uk was packed full of great presentations and conversations. We're really excited to build on the connections made, grow our network, and push forward this research in Critical AI together.
Quick wrap up of the sessions in thread 🧵
October 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
CrAIC Launch Workshop is a success! 🌟
Our two-day event @exeter.ac.uk was packed full of great presentations and conversations. We're really excited to build on the connections made, grow our network, and push forward this research in Critical AI together.
Quick wrap up of the sessions in thread 🧵
Our two-day event @exeter.ac.uk was packed full of great presentations and conversations. We're really excited to build on the connections made, grow our network, and push forward this research in Critical AI together.
Quick wrap up of the sessions in thread 🧵
Reposted by Lucy Osler
It's been a great first day at the CrAIC launch workshop! 🌟
Two panels, nine speakers, lots of good discussion
You can still sign up for our hybrid roundtable, tomorrow 2pm-3pm BST 👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-critic...
Two panels, nine speakers, lots of good discussion
You can still sign up for our hybrid roundtable, tomorrow 2pm-3pm BST 👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-critic...
October 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It's been a great first day at the CrAIC launch workshop! 🌟
Two panels, nine speakers, lots of good discussion
You can still sign up for our hybrid roundtable, tomorrow 2pm-3pm BST 👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-critic...
Two panels, nine speakers, lots of good discussion
You can still sign up for our hybrid roundtable, tomorrow 2pm-3pm BST 👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-critic...
Philosophers of emotion, the call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Hosted at Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Southern Germany by our lovely president Imke von Maur on 24-26 June 2026 💕
#philsky
#philsky
PSA 🔈Our call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Our 2026 annual conference will be hosted in Germany by Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on 24-26 June 2026 💫
Deadline for abstracts on all things philosophy of emotions: 1 December 2025
www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...
Deadline for abstracts on all things philosophy of emotions: 1 December 2025
www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...
Call for Abstracts | EPSSE
www.epsse.org
October 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Philosophers of emotion, the call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Hosted at Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Southern Germany by our lovely president Imke von Maur on 24-26 June 2026 💕
#philsky
#philsky
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The British Society of Aesthetics seeks to appoint a paid, part-time Editor for its website, newsletter, and social media. Applicants will be expected to be UK-based postgraduates working in aesthetics.
The deadline for applications is 22 October 2025.
The deadline for applications is 22 October 2025.
Position Available: BSA Website & Social Media Editor - The British Society of Aesthetics
The British Society of Aesthetics seeks to appoint a paid, part-time Editor for its website, newsletter, and social media. DUTIES OF POST WEBSITEThe Editor will be responsible for editing and maintain...
british-aesthetics.org
September 29, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The British Society of Aesthetics seeks to appoint a paid, part-time Editor for its website, newsletter, and social media. Applicants will be expected to be UK-based postgraduates working in aesthetics.
The deadline for applications is 22 October 2025.
The deadline for applications is 22 October 2025.
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Some academic conferences are treasurable spaces to meet new people, get together with old friends and share research with keen students—and this was one of those. Thanks @bexmillar.bsky.social, @lucyosler.bsky.social and staff and students at @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social! (It was not sad at all)
September 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Some academic conferences are treasurable spaces to meet new people, get together with old friends and share research with keen students—and this was one of those. Thanks @bexmillar.bsky.social, @lucyosler.bsky.social and staff and students at @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social! (It was not sad at all)
Absolute peak academia at our sad philosophy workshop! The cosiest and kindest contemplation of exbots & heartbreak, grief & negative relations, and AI psychosis that you could wish for. Thanks @bexmillar.bsky.social, @lopezcantero.bsky.social & our lovely participants 🖤
hope we can do a part 2 👀
hope we can do a part 2 👀
September 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Absolute peak academia at our sad philosophy workshop! The cosiest and kindest contemplation of exbots & heartbreak, grief & negative relations, and AI psychosis that you could wish for. Thanks @bexmillar.bsky.social, @lopezcantero.bsky.social & our lovely participants 🖤
hope we can do a part 2 👀
hope we can do a part 2 👀
Reposted by Lucy Osler
This is today! Please do come along if you're in Cardiff.
#philsky
A Sad Philosophy Workshop
GRIEF, HEARTBREAK, & HALLUCINATIONS
Pilar Lopez-Cantero (Antwerp)
Becky Millar (Cardiff)
Lucy Osler (Exeter)
13:30-17:30, Friday 26 September
1.57 John Percival Building
Cardiff University
Free! All welcome!
Register here: bit.ly/CdfGHH#philsky
A Sad Philosophy Workshop
GRIEF, HEARTBREAK, & HALLUCINATIONS
Pilar Lopez-Cantero (Antwerp)
Becky Millar (Cardiff)
Lucy Osler (Exeter)
13:30-17:30, Friday 26 September
1.57 John Percival Building
Cardiff University
Free! All welcome!
Register here: bit.ly/CdfGHH#philsky
September 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
This is today! Please do come along if you're in Cardiff.
Reposted by Lucy Osler
Announcing New Welsh Voices in English Literature - a new research series at Swansea!
I wanted to devote some of my @leverhulme.ac.uk trust fellowship to promoting work by other ECRs in Wales.
I'm really looking forward to these two talks this semester, with Bridget Bartlett and Beth Pyner.
I wanted to devote some of my @leverhulme.ac.uk trust fellowship to promoting work by other ECRs in Wales.
I'm really looking forward to these two talks this semester, with Bridget Bartlett and Beth Pyner.
September 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Announcing New Welsh Voices in English Literature - a new research series at Swansea!
I wanted to devote some of my @leverhulme.ac.uk trust fellowship to promoting work by other ECRs in Wales.
I'm really looking forward to these two talks this semester, with Bridget Bartlett and Beth Pyner.
I wanted to devote some of my @leverhulme.ac.uk trust fellowship to promoting work by other ECRs in Wales.
I'm really looking forward to these two talks this semester, with Bridget Bartlett and Beth Pyner.