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Was genuinely in a staff meeting this week where the chair said 'We can begin when the owl has arrived'. I think we've reached peak- Cambridge.
October 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Was genuinely in a staff meeting this week where the chair said 'We can begin when the owl has arrived'. I think we've reached peak- Cambridge.
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New paper with @tom-mcclelland.bsky.social! What is it to see someone as an object – to perceptually objectify them? We argue that seeing is not just a metaphor. We see others afford doing things with and to.
doi.org/10.1111/ejop...
doi.org/10.1111/ejop...
Seeing Others as Objects: Perceptual Objectification & Affordances
In discussions of objectification, the use of visual language is ubiquitous. It is striking that the literature often talks about treating and seeing someone as an object in the same breath. Yet acc...
doi.org
September 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
New paper with @tom-mcclelland.bsky.social! What is it to see someone as an object – to perceptually objectify them? We argue that seeing is not just a metaphor. We see others afford doing things with and to.
doi.org/10.1111/ejop...
doi.org/10.1111/ejop...
Short piece out in *AI & Society* called "The winds of culture: AI art generators and the Aeolian harp". I suggest that making music with an aeolian harp has interesting similarities to making music with AI (link in comments)
June 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Short piece out in *AI & Society* called "The winds of culture: AI art generators and the Aeolian harp". I suggest that making music with an aeolian harp has interesting similarities to making music with AI (link in comments)
Reposted
For some reason this made me think of @tom-mcclelland.bsky.social
Victorian London saw the invention of the "teasmade"—an alarm clock that brewed tea. A nation so committed to its ritual that it engineered caffeinated punctuality into its daily routine. Industrial-age domestic magic. #LegendaryWednesday
April 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
For some reason this made me think of @tom-mcclelland.bsky.social
Cambridge Neuroscience are hosting a panel for the Cambridge Festival on 'Consciousness at the Edge'. Hear top neuroscientists (and me) discuss sleep, disorders of consciousness and AI consciousness. Link in comments.
6:00pm-7:30pm on Thu 27 Mar
McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College
6:00pm-7:30pm on Thu 27 Mar
McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College
March 20, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Cambridge Neuroscience are hosting a panel for the Cambridge Festival on 'Consciousness at the Edge'. Hear top neuroscientists (and me) discuss sleep, disorders of consciousness and AI consciousness. Link in comments.
6:00pm-7:30pm on Thu 27 Mar
McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College
6:00pm-7:30pm on Thu 27 Mar
McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College
Had a letter on AI published in @theguardian.com this weekend (link in comments). Lots of interesting stuff happening right now on the prospects of conscious AI and what to do about it. #AI #artificialconsciousness
February 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Had a letter on AI published in @theguardian.com this weekend (link in comments). Lots of interesting stuff happening right now on the prospects of conscious AI and what to do about it. #AI #artificialconsciousness
There's a recent open letter that calls for greater precautions around conscious AI. The Metro interviewed me for an article about it here metro.co.uk/.../fears-ai... Some of the quotes are taken out of context but I think it retains the gist of what I said.
Fears AI 'could be made to suffer' if it becomes conscious
Some think making it work for us would be akin to slavery.
metro.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
There's a recent open letter that calls for greater precautions around conscious AI. The Metro interviewed me for an article about it here metro.co.uk/.../fears-ai... Some of the quotes are taken out of context but I think it retains the gist of what I said.
Hey! This is my first post on Bluesky. Researchers be interested in my new paper 'Agnosticism About Artificial Consciousness'. Some say that AI could become conscious. Others say it couldn't. I say we don't know then deal with the moral mess this leaves us in! arxiv.org/pdf/2412.13145 Abstract below
arxiv.org
December 20, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Hey! This is my first post on Bluesky. Researchers be interested in my new paper 'Agnosticism About Artificial Consciousness'. Some say that AI could become conscious. Others say it couldn't. I say we don't know then deal with the moral mess this leaves us in! arxiv.org/pdf/2412.13145 Abstract below