Elizabeth O'Neill
@artificialethic.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, TU Eindhoven, Philosophy & Ethics. Moral psychology, moral epistemology, phil biology, AI ethics.
Sophie's choice: ICE version
This ICE agent tells an immigration attorney of her three clients: "I'm not picky so I'm giving you the options cause I have to take one. If not I'll take all."
He is quite literally saying that ICE is simply deporting people at random to meet a quota.
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He is quite literally saying that ICE is simply deporting people at random to meet a quota.
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June 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Sophie's choice: ICE version
"Generative AI tools like Grok give men the ability to sexually harass women and girls at scale."
Elon Musk’s Grok has been weaponized to create viral AI-generated edits of women’s selfies that make it appear like they’re covered in semen. In theory there should be legal recourse, but the reality is grim for victims of AI sexual harassment.
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Is Grok liable for sexual harassment?
Also, food influencers making anti-ICE content indicates a bigger, notable political shift.
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June 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"Generative AI tools like Grok give men the ability to sexually harass women and girls at scale."
A West Point philosophy professor has resigned rather than accept infringement on academic freedom: He writes, "Mr. Trump and Mr. Hegseth also ordered that the academies shall “teach that America and its founding documents remain the most powerful force for good in human history.”"
May 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A West Point philosophy professor has resigned rather than accept infringement on academic freedom: He writes, "Mr. Trump and Mr. Hegseth also ordered that the academies shall “teach that America and its founding documents remain the most powerful force for good in human history.”"
Presumably, OpenAI didn't set out to destroy education. (Nor the public's capacity for critical thinking, writing, and argument.) And yet look what they have achieved.
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
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May 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Presumably, OpenAI didn't set out to destroy education. (Nor the public's capacity for critical thinking, writing, and argument.) And yet look what they have achieved.
New article, co-authored with Bart Kamphorst: "Digital recording and the hazards of unbounded moralized judgment."
May 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
New article, co-authored with Bart Kamphorst: "Digital recording and the hazards of unbounded moralized judgment."
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📣The @UofT Centre for Ethics has a call for applications for a post-doctoral fellowship in on the topic of Algorithm Bias.
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➡️ includes teaching opportunity and position is renewable up to 3 years
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Postdoctoral Fellowship In Algorithm Bias | Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
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March 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
📣The @UofT Centre for Ethics has a call for applications for a post-doctoral fellowship in on the topic of Algorithm Bias.
Please share 🙏
➡️ includes teaching opportunity and position is renewable up to 3 years
@ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
@uoftethics.bsky.social
ethics.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...
Please share 🙏
➡️ includes teaching opportunity and position is renewable up to 3 years
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ethics.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...
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Reminder: come work with our project in a fantastic community of philosophers!
Call for Applications: Postdoc (3 Years) at the Institute of Philosophy, @univie.ac.at as part of Knowledge in Crisis.
Deadline: March 20, 2025, 11:59 PM CET
More details & application: https://philjobs.org/job/show/28733
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Deadline: March 20, 2025, 11:59 PM CET
More details & application: https://philjobs.org/job/show/28733
#PhilJobs
#PhilSky
Post-doctoral Researcher (3 year position), University of Vienna - PhilJobs:JFP
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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March 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Reminder: come work with our project in a fantastic community of philosophers!
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Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly
February 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly
Already, governance by inscrutable and unaccountable computer system: "Wilkowitz also demonstrated how ChatGPT Gov could draft a memo to the legal and compliance department summarizing its own AI-generated job plan and then translate the memo into different languages."
I said it before and, and I'm saying it now: This is still such a terrible idea.
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January 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Already, governance by inscrutable and unaccountable computer system: "Wilkowitz also demonstrated how ChatGPT Gov could draft a memo to the legal and compliance department summarizing its own AI-generated job plan and then translate the memo into different languages."
The U.S. president is not a king -- the press should stop covering him as if he were.
A huge problem right now is that the media is credulously reporting that so many things Trump is doing by EO/edict/OMB or OPM memo is just the end of the matter, that he can do it by fiat.
That is not true.
That is not true.
January 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The U.S. president is not a king -- the press should stop covering him as if he were.
More people in the U.S. should use Signal as their default app for messaging and calls.
January 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
More people in the U.S. should use Signal as their default app for messaging and calls.
Footnote 2 explains a lot.
December 30, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Footnote 2 explains a lot.
Unconscionable data-related policies.
"Some hospitals require social workers to automatically file a report for any positive test..."
"...hospitals often lack policies requiring providers to review a patient’s records to see what medications they received before reporting them to authorities."
"Some hospitals require social workers to automatically file a report for any positive test..."
"...hospitals often lack policies requiring providers to review a patient’s records to see what medications they received before reporting them to authorities."
I had to reread this to be sure I understood since it is so Kafkaesque:
hospitals are giving medications to patients in labor, only to report them to child welfare authorities when they or their newborns test positive for *the same medications the hospital just gave them*
hospitals are giving medications to patients in labor, only to report them to child welfare authorities when they or their newborns test positive for *the same medications the hospital just gave them*
End pregnancy criminalization! Hospitals reported women for positive drug tests after giving them drugs for childbirth: medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections. #lawsky www.themarshallproject.org/2024/12/11/p...
December 11, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Unconscionable data-related policies.
"Some hospitals require social workers to automatically file a report for any positive test..."
"...hospitals often lack policies requiring providers to review a patient’s records to see what medications they received before reporting them to authorities."
"Some hospitals require social workers to automatically file a report for any positive test..."
"...hospitals often lack policies requiring providers to review a patient’s records to see what medications they received before reporting them to authorities."
It still surprises me that there are no real options available for consumers who want phones that protect privacy. I hope there will be more innovation along these lines in the future -- www.404media.co/email/166c5e...
I Don't Own a Cellphone. Can This Privacy-Focused Network Change That?
A small tech company called Cape has been selling a privacy-focused cellphone service to the U.S. military. Now Cape will be offering its product to high-risk members of the public.
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November 21, 2024 at 3:29 PM
It still surprises me that there are no real options available for consumers who want phones that protect privacy. I hope there will be more innovation along these lines in the future -- www.404media.co/email/166c5e...
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Exciting PhD Opportunity at Eindhoven University of Technology! Interested in explainability and fairness of LLMs? Join us and work with leading experts Carlos Zednik and Lambèr Royakkers in the AlignAI network. For more info: jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/p.... Please share!
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PhD on Philosophical Constraints on the Explainability and Fairness of LLMs
The TU/e is constantly looking for scientific and non-scientific staff further its ambitions. View here our current vacancies.
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November 18, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Exciting PhD Opportunity at Eindhoven University of Technology! Interested in explainability and fairness of LLMs? Join us and work with leading experts Carlos Zednik and Lambèr Royakkers in the AlignAI network. For more info: jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/p.... Please share!
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Protests at every university!
Just imagine all these people together in The Hague, november 25!
Reports here in a thread. Starting in Twente 1/
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Just imagine all these people together in The Hague, november 25!
Reports here in a thread. Starting in Twente 1/
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Students and employees protest government cuts on campus
Several hundred UT employees turned out for a large-scale protest on campus against the government cuts. A report of the slimmed-down version of the cancelled Utrecht protest. 'We have to be careful n...
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November 14, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Protests at every university!
Just imagine all these people together in The Hague, november 25!
Reports here in a thread. Starting in Twente 1/
www.utoday.nl/news/74870/s...
Just imagine all these people together in The Hague, november 25!
Reports here in a thread. Starting in Twente 1/
www.utoday.nl/news/74870/s...
Reposted by Elizabeth O'Neill
The Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT) Conference is coming to Eindhoven! Submit your abstracts and be part of this cool event. Check dates and deadlines here: spt2025.dryfta.com/index.php. Please share!
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Spt2025
From June 25-28, 2025, the Philosophy and Ethics Group of the Faculty Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences o
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November 11, 2024 at 1:56 PM
The Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT) Conference is coming to Eindhoven! Submit your abstracts and be part of this cool event. Check dates and deadlines here: spt2025.dryfta.com/index.php. Please share!
#philosophy #philtech #philAI
#philosophy #philtech #philAI