Sven Nyholm

#ai | Sabina Leonelli Looking forward to hosting Sven Nyholm and his group later today, for what will no doubt be an eye-opening discussion of #AI

The Ethics (and History) of Defining Artificial Intelligence www.linkedin.com/posts/sabina... with @svennyholm.bsky.social and @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social

Never too late! 😃

AI & Consciousness at LMU Date: November 21st, 2025 (09:30 until 17:30) Location: LMU München, Leopoldstraße 13, 80802 München, Room 2102. Please register until 18th of November 2025.

Coming up at LMU Munich: workshop on AI & consciousness, organized by Prof. Sven Nyholm (@svennyholm.bsky.social) & colleagues, on Nov 21. Speakers include Prof. Joanna Bryson (@j2bryson.bsky.social) & Prof. Tobias Schlicht (Bochum). Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #aiethics

LMU Munich is looking to fill a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education. The role involves research, teaching, and the design of a new study program in philosophy/ethics.
Deadline: 15 Nov 2025.
Apply here: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

Join us for a talk by @svennyholm.bsky.social (LMU): "Moral Principles for Human-Human Interaction, Human-AI Interaction, and AI-AI Interaction"

Mathematikon (Lecture Hall), Heidelberg
Wednesday, 12 November, 6pm
Details:
www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/veranstal...

Today I received a physical copy of the Korean translation of my book This is Technology Ethics. Thanks to Yongwoo Yi for bringing it to me all the way from South Korea! Thanks again, most of all, to Junsik Yoon and Joseph HB Park for translating the book! #AIEthics #philosophy

Is Meaningful Human Control Over Personalised AI Assistants Possible? Ethical Design Requirements for The New Generation of Artificially Intelligent Agents - Philosophy & Technology Recently, several large tech companies have pushed the notion of AI assistants into the public debate. These envisioned agents are intended to far outshine current systems, as they are intended to be ...

New publication: "Is Meaningful Human Control Over Personalised AI Assistants Possible? Ethical Design Requirements for The New Generation of Artificially Intelligent Agents", by Sietze Kuilman, me, Stefan Buijsman & Luciano Cavalcante Siebert: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #aiethics #philosophy

Deus sex machina: What are the consequences of turning ChatGPT into a sex-line? OpenAI founder Sam Altman has announced that ChatGPT will from December be able to engage in erotic conversations with its users. It’s a decision with barely-disguised commercial motives – and one tha...

News coverage of OpenAI's recently announced, forthcoming updated functioning w/ respect to the types of conversations enabled - from France 24 - featuring some commentary by me, Kate Devlin (@drkatedevlin.bsky.social), & other AI ethics researchers:
www.france24.com/en/technolog... #aiethics

🚨We're hiring! 🚨

👉Open Position: Assistant Professor of #Philosophy with focus on #AI

🗓️ Application deadline: 3 November 2025

Apply via: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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Looks like a lovely place, though!

Technology Ethics Podcast A podcast-based introduction to the philosophy and ethics of technology

I'm more than halfway through this interesting #podcast series on technology ethics, from my colleague Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social and John Danaher. Highly recommended!

technologyethicspod.wordpress.com

#ethics #aiethics #technology #philsky

New book review, by Ratan Sarkar, of "Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies" (Open Publishers 2023), which was co-edited by me and several others in the ESDIT research project @esdit.bsky.social: jeet.ieet.org/index.php/ho...

Out now: "Ethik der KI: eine Philosophische Perspektive" - a transcript from a lecture I recently gave at an interdisciplinary event organized by the German Lutheran Diaconia organization "midi" - in *Diakonie reflektiert – Band 3* (ed. Christian Albrecht):
www.mi-di.de/media/pages/... #aiethics

Opening here at the LMU: a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion. The position combines research in philosophy with a strong focus on didactics.

Application deadline: 15 November 2025

job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

Out now: *The Ethics of Behavior Change Technologies*, edited by Joel Anderson, Lily Frank & Andreas Spahn, featuring "Control, personal autonomy and behaviour change technologies", by me: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de... #philosophy #technologyethics #aiethics

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JOB: Associate Professor or Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, in association with a Tutorial Fellowship at Merton College. AoS Ethics and/or Political Philosophy, with at least an AoC in Feminist Philosophy.
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LMU Munich invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education, starting in October 2026. We are looking for candidates with an outstanding research record in philosophy and a strong profile in philosophy education.
Deadline: 15 November 2025:
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

Donate to help Julie Carpenter medical and living expenses, organized by Amy Bensinger Hello! Our friend Julie Carpenter, a researcher and author ba… Amy Bensinger needs your support for Donate to help Julie Carpenter medical and living expenses

Friends, I’m in dire straits or I’d never ask. Thank you for donating and sharing! If you are comfortable doing so, please share this link again. It helps! www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

From my interview with philosopher and author John Danaher about his book, Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work (2019, Harvard University Press). This was part of The… Reality vs. virtual reality - what's the difference?

Reality vs. virtual reality - what's the difference? youtu.be/zTynRf24mOM

No, I was always just assuming that I was too old - and that my social media posts are too text-focused - for TikTok.

my pictures including a selfie with Seward Johnson's statue of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring

@svennyholm.bsky.social re Merkel's selfie with a robot, these pictures are from 2016.

I bet you could literally find a selfie with an (MC) Hammer statue if he's in Madame Tussauds' (probably not by Merkel though.)

I am advertising two PhD positions in philosophy -- one for a domestic student, one for an international student. Both positions are 1 + 3 years, meaning that the first year is an MRes and the next three years are for the PhD.

www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...

Clones should NOT be slaves artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security

So I've updated an earlier blogpost to explain limit-case arguments. In "Robots Should Be Slaves", I intended to be entirely agnostic about whether we COULD build persons. That question is irrelevant, because even if we could, it would be moral catastrophe.
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2015/10/clon...

I haven't read it (yet) but it sounds interesting! I think I will add it to the reading list of my ethics of LLMs/generative AI course. Thanks for the tip, Joanna!

Great line up for our Digital Duplicates workshop at @NUS_CBmE, co-organised and co-sponsored with our friends at University of Bucharest, including Cristina and Voinea and Mihaela Constantinescu 😊

Technology Ethics Podcast A podcast-based introduction to the philosophy and ethics of technology

Are you teaching or taking an ethics of technology course this fall? Whether or not you're using my *This is Technology Ethics* book, you might find this 10-episode podcast (w/ the same title as the book) by ‪@johndanaher.bsky.social‬ & me useful: technologyethicspod.wordpress.com #aiethics

Thank you to our great Munich Center for Machine Learning (@munichcenterml.bsky.social) for featuring me in this research film! Lots of great films clips with my MCML colleagues are available on MCML's YouTube channel. #ai #aiethics #mcml #philosophy youtu.be/KUqiY8o1yng?...

YouTube video by MCML_Munich Center for Machine Learning What is intelligence—and what kind of intelligence do we want in our future? With Prof. Sven Nyholm

🎥 Who gets the credit, or the blame, when AI makes decisions? Sven Nyholm ( #LMU/ #MCML) reflects on how AI challenges our ideas of agency, credit, and blame — and why we need new ways of thinking about authorship, justice, and decision-making.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUqi...

#AI #Ethics

This Friday, July 18 at 11:00 AM (CEST), we are excited to be co-hosting a virtual talk with @hlrs-hpc.bsky.social featuring Prof. Dr. Sven Nyholm from LMU Munich on:

The Ethics of AI Agents: Advanced AI Assistants, the “Next Big Thing” in AI Ethics?

👉 Join us: www.hlrs.de/event/the-et...

Thanks David and for your great contribution to the volume!