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Jen Semler

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Philosopher of AI and ethics | Postdoc at Cornell Tech's Digital Life Initiative jensemler.com

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And now, I'm thrilled to be starting a postdoc at Cornell Tech as part of the Digital Life Initiative!

22.08.2025 15:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Officially Dr. Semler! Graduated from Oxford with a DPhil (PhD) in Philosophy for my dissertation "On Artificial Moral Agency"! Special thanks to my wonderful supervisors @carissaveliz.bsky.social and Alison Hills; examiners Roger Crisp and David Shoemaker; and mentors, friends, and family.

22.08.2025 15:09 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1
Bitesize Ethics 2025: Session five
Teaching Ethics to Machines 
Speaker: Jen Semler
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Bitesize Ethics 2025: Session five Teaching Ethics to Machines Speaker: Jen Semler The background image is a colour headshot of Jen Semler, superimposed on UOI branding (natural patterns such as a tree ring or fingerprint) on a terracotta background.

Can we teach ethics to machines? And if we can, should we? Join @jensemler.bsky.social online on Wednesday 23rd to find out more...
uehiro.web.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-eth...

#Bitesize #ethics #AI #onlineeducation #PhilosophyMatters

21.07.2025 14:35 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1
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A timing problem for instrumental convergence - Philosophical Studies Those who worry about a superintelligent AI destroying humanity often appeal to the instrumental convergence thesis—the claim that even if we don’t know what a superintelligence’s ultimate goals will ...

I'm also excited to share that another paper of mine, co-authored with Helena Ward and Rhys Southan, "A Timing Problem for Instrumental Convergence," is out in Philosophical Studies! doi.org/10.1007/s110...

04.07.2025 13:16 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Moral Agency without Consciousness | Canadian Journal of Philosophy | Cambridge Core Moral Agency without Consciousness

I'm so excited to share that the first paper from my dissertation, "Moral Agency without Consciousness," is now out at the Canadian Journal of Philosophy! doi.org/10.1017/can....

04.07.2025 07:38 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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