Marianna B. Ganapini
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Marianna B. Ganapini
@mbergam.bsky.social
Philosophy of mind and AI. Associate prof at UNCC (opinions are my own)
I started a Substack channel - please follow me there if you are curious about my research on AI and want to engage 😊 🤓 🩷

First post: Some reflections on Human-AI Interaction & Trust
substack.com/@mbgx?utm_so...
September 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Enrico Panai (Università di Sassari) & @mbergam.bsky.social ( @unioncollege.bsky.social ) discuss the risks and morality of AI nudging, or artificial intelligence being used to provide online recommendations, in American Philosophical Quarterly 62.3 scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/apq/arti...
September 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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American Philosophical Quarterly 62.3 is available online! Contributors include
- @mbergam.bsky.social ( @unioncollege.bsky.social )
- Giorgio Mazzullo ( @uniofnottingham.bsky.social )
- Ioan Muntean ( @uofilsystem.bsky.social )
and more!
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/apq/issu...
September 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
New output in Communications of the ACM from a long standing research project with a wonderful interdisciplinary team spearheaded by Francesca Rossi where we investigate fast and slow thinking in AI

cacm.acm.org/research/thi...
July 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The idea of AI as System 0 and an extension of the mind is taking shape, step by step.

Here is a new publication: "System 0: Transforming Artificial Intelligence into a Cognitive Extension"

www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...
System 0: Transforming Artificial Intelligence into a Cognitive Extension | Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
This paper introduces “System 0,” a conceptual framework for understanding how artificial intelligence functions as a cognitive extension preceding both intuitive (System 1) and deliberative (System 2...
www.liebertpub.com
June 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🔥 The Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping just came out! Excited to see my piece on #AI emotion recognition among such great papers on mindshaping. 🤩

books.google.com/books?hl=en&...

#philsky #philosophy #mindshaping #AI
The Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping
Of all species, human beings are uniquely capable of coordinating on long-term, large-scale cooperative projects with unfamiliar and genetically unrelated others. According to the mindshaping hypothes...
books.google.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"European regulators are considering fining X more than $1 billion". "major attempt to enforce the Digital Services Act, which requires companies to better police their platforms and to provide adequate transparency about how their services work."

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/t...
E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk’s X (Gift Article)
European regulators are considering fining X more than $1 billion, after weighing the risks of further antagonizing Mr. Musk and President Trump.
www.nytimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
My papers in #philosophy of #AI coming out:

-"Can AI make scientific discoveries?" Phil Studies
-“AI and Emotion Recognition” in Mindshaping Handbook, Routledge
-“The case for Human-AI interaction as System 0 Thinking”, Nature Human Behaviour
-“AI-enhanced Nudging: A Risk-factors Analysis”, APQ
March 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Arresting and threatening to deport students because of their participation in political protest is the kind of action one ordinarily associates with the world’s most repressive regimes. It’s genuinely shocking that this appears to be what’s going on right here. 1/
March 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Well said!
March 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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"Have you said thank you even once?"
March 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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💥 BREAKING: At Apple's 2025 annual meeting of shareholders today, proposal entitled “Request to Cease DEI Efforts" is rejected by shareholders.

Right-wing nonprofit National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) proposal was also rejected by Costco shareholders 98-2 percent.
February 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
En route to the @notredame.bsky.social / Uni of Notre Dame to give a keynote at the Tech Ethics Forum. Excited to talk about the future of Responsible AI, see some old friends and meet new ones.

Thank you for inviting me NotreDame-IBMTech Lab, @nunomoniz.bsky.social & Sara Berger & Jungmin Lee
January 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM