Our beautiful campus awaits the study seekers for the Master’s #OpenDay at the #UTwente . I am looking forward to the bright young people considering to study #Philosophy of #Science , #Technology and #Society with us :) Oh, and this is literally just across my office… #PhilTech #TechEthics #AIEthics #STS #HistoryOfTechnology

New paper out in Philosophy & Technology: “Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback in LLMs: Whose Culture, Whose Values, Whose Perspectives?” (Gonzales/Lohse/de Regt) link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philtech

Important … #Ethics #AIEthics #PhilTech #academia

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Just three days left to apply for our 5-year #AdAstraFellowship in #Ethics and #Philosophy of #Technology! Further details and a link to the application system are available on our website at: www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n... #PhilTech #PhilSci #PhilJobs #AIEthics #UCD

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Just one week left to apply for our Ad Astra Fellowship in #Ethics and #Philosophy of #Technology at @ucddublin.bsky.social… #PhilTech #PhilSci #AIEthics #DataEthics #PhilSky #PhilJobs

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On my way to kick-off our #Philosophy and #Sociology course at the #IndustrialDesign BA programme at #Utwente. Who would have thought that you can study Industrial Design and get lectures about “why we should stop designing” at the same time? #PhilTech #STS #HigherEd

#UCD School of Philosophy is looking for a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the #Ethics and #Philosophy of Technology for a prestigious 5-year fellowship leading to a permanent position (subject to satisfactory performance). #PhilTech #PhilSci #AIEthics #PhilJobs https://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/newsandevents/2025/ad-astra-ethics-technology/

#UCD School of Philosophy is looking for a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the #Ethics and #Philosophy of Technology for a prestigious 5-year fellowship leading to a permanent position (subject to satisfactory performance). #PhilTech #PhilSci #AIEthics #PhilJobs www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n...

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“Apparently, there’s a new Chinese A.I. company that can much more cheaply make us have to hear about A.I.” From The New Yorker #PhilTech

Do you have a stellar track record in #Ethics and #Philosophy of Technology (including, though not limited to, ethics of AI)? Would you like to be my colleague at University College #Dublin? Good news: @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social is hiring!

For further details and information about #UCD’s Ad Astra programme, see: https://www.ucd.ie/adastrafellows/en/ (apply via College of Social Sciences and Law section, or DM for informal enquiries). #PhilJobs #PhilTech #AIEthics

UCD School of #Philosophy is looking to hire an Ad Astra Fellow in #Ethics and Philosophy of Technology, inc. ethics of AI (5-year fixed-term, leading to permanent subject to performance). For details, see my.corehr.com/pls/coreport.... Closing date: 21st Feb. #PhilSky #PhilTech #AIEthics #PhilJobs

He did so to show how God acts in the world. We should “look upon miracles not as deviations from the laws assigned by the Almighty for the government of matter and of mind; but as the exact fulfilment of much more extensive laws than those we suppose to exist.” #PhilSci #HistSTM #PhilTech #STS

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Charles Babbage was born OTD in 1791. You know he invented the Difference Engine—arguably the first mechanical computer. But did you know his demonstrations of the Engine at his Saturday soirées were a highlight of the London social season through the 1830s? #PhilSci #HistSTM #PhilTech #STS

Per Bak was born OTD in 1948. He studied “sandpile dynamics.” Drop grains one by one from above. They accrete linearly until they don’t, and there’s a sandslide. The system is constantly poised at a point of “self-organized criticality.” #philsci #philtech #HistSTM

Spitballing an idea inspired by the @melaniemitchell.bsky.social piece. To be clear, I'm not attributing the idea to her. One thing that might be missing from current LLMs that is a barrier to their achieving AGI is precisely the ability to "think" metaphorically. 1/n #PhilSci #PhilTech

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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: https://www.utwente.nl/en/education/study-choice-calendar/master-open-day/

Enjoying the presentations at the #EmergingTechnologies and #SocietalTransformations conference at @utwente . #STS #PhilTech https://www.utwente.nl/en/bms/researchcentreforsciencecommunication/events/2024/9/1729072/emerging-technologies-societal-transformations-conference-2024

I was thinking about how there is only a very minor philosophy of engineering, and engineering does not have an equal formal status in history of S&T and STS Which might go back to the status of engineering as not really academic in some(?) (anglophone?) countries? #histsci #philtech #sts

#STS #PhilTech #AI #SustainableAI #TechnoSolutionism #ClimateChange #Environment: "Contrary to its perceived role as a solution, I argue that sustainable AI inadvertently perpetuates and reinforces existing structures of socio-economic exploitation and exclusion. Building on critical technology and AI studies as well as materialist thinking, I shed light on the hegemonic narratives, visions, and beliefs that ground the technological horizon of this conception. Thus adding to a critical theory of technology, the central aim of this paper is to “demystify the illusion of technical necessity” with which sustainable AI is presented and “expose the relativity of the prevailing technical choices”. The pursuit of sustainable AI is not driven by benevolent intentions for resource-friendly and ethical solutions but represents a contingent choice that emerges as the technological manifestation of the current socio-economic horizon.

Laying out this argument, the paper proceeds as follows. First, I survey the concept of sustainable AI. Second, I demystify the narratives, visions, and beliefs behind the concept by sketching three epistemological dimensions to analyze AI: AI-as-technology, AI-beyond-technology, and AI-as-ideology. Grounded in science and technology studies (STS) and philosophy of technology (PhilTech), this threefold distinction lays the foundations for a critical assessment of sustainable AI and details the ways that this conception reinforces the existing status quo. Third, I expand these insights and identify the techno-solutionist and economic narratives that facilitate the current enthusiasm for sustainable AI. Finally, I demonstrate how this enthusiasm inadvertently co-opts genuine climate solutions, creating the illusion of moving forward while being stuck within a system of economic, environmental, and social exploitation. The inevitable conclusion is that a climate-friendly future demands a different path."

https://ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wjds/article/view/4_1_4/119

New Weekly Reckoning just dropped! In the news: Anthropic gives Claude a bridge obsession, WiFi just got more expensive for millions in the US, the public’s thoughts on genAI, and hikikomori are gaining notice outside of Japan.
https://ethicalreckoner.substack.com/p/wr-29-a-golden-gate-lobotomy-what
#newsletter #techethics #philtech #STS