London AI and Humanity Project

@barrycsmith.bsky.social kicking off Responsible AI at the Institute of Philosophy.

Next up in our ongoing AI Affect series:

👤 Tim Salomons (Queens Canada)
📢 "How do we judge others' pain?"
🗓️ TOMORROW April 15, 3-4:30 PM
📍 Join us in person or online! DM for details.

Join us for this year’s May conference on Responsible AI, the first of our “Summer of AI” events, May 19-20.

arxiv.org/pdf/2411.00986

Next up in our ongoing AI Affect series:

👤 Rob Long (Eleos AI)
📢 "Taking AI Welfare Seriously"
🗓️ Tuesday, March 25, 3-4:30 PM
📍 Join us in person or online! DM for details.

So sorry about this Orpheus! Working on that now!

I’m afraid our talks are not recorded.

Next up in our ongoing AI Affect series:

👤 Tom Everitt (Google Deepmind) @tom4everitt.bsky.social
📢 "Agency as backwards causality"
🗓️ TODAY Tuesday, March 4, 3-4:30 PM
📍 Join us in person or online! DM for details.

The deadline for applying to be an AI fellow at the LAIHP is this Sunday.

University College Dublin is hiring five year Ad Astra Fellows in the Philosophy of Technology/AI. Deadline: February 21st. Find out more at the link below.

Next up in our ongoing AI Affect series:

👤 Jeff Sebo (NYU) @jeffsebo.bsky.social
📢 "The Moral Circle"
🗓️ Tuesday, February 4, 3-4:30 PM
📍 Join us in person or online! DM for details.

@jeffsebo.bsky.social

The LAIHP is pleased to invite applications for Visiting Fellowships at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

The fellowship period will run from May 19th-June 27th, 2025

For more information, see below.

Join us also next week!

👤 Jeff Sebo (NYU)
📢 "The Moral Circle"
🗓️ Tuesday, February 4, 3-4:30 PM
📍 Join us in person or online! DM for details.

Can't wait for this talk tomorrow?

Too bad, that's when it is. We're excited too.

Hot off the presses, by LAIHP researcher Emma Borg.

Absolutely appreciate that usage but there a public bait-and-switch worry here

Agency — The Philosophical Glossary of AI Agency is the capacity to perform actions, where an action is something that is done rather than something that merely happens. Humans have the capacity to act, and so we tend to think of each other a...

Very impressive and exciting… but is calling OpenAI’s new Operator an “agent” accurate?

www.aiglossary.co.uk/index/agency

m.youtube.com/watch?v=xtia...

More discussion of work from LAIHP project partners Geoff Keeling and Winnie Street.

The LAIHP is pleased to invite applications for Visiting Fellowships at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

The fellowship period will run from May 19th-June 27th, 2025

For more information, see below.

See previous discussion of this article and a response from @mpshanahan.bsky.social here.

LLMs are not just next token predictors LLMs are statistical models of language learning through stochastic gradient descent with a next token prediction objective. Prompting a popular view among AI modelers: LLMs are just next token pre...

The latest paper from LAIHP Director @alexgrz.bsky.social, co-authored with @downes.bsky.social and Patrick Forber is out in Inquiry!

@stmartyna.bsky.social
@sciam.bsky.social

A New Way to Test AI for Sentience: Make It Confront Pain A new study shows that large language models make trade-offs to avoid pain, with possible implications for future AI welfare

Check out this article in Scientific American about a recent study by LAIHP project partners Winnie Street and Geoff Keeling!

LAIHP Director @alexgrz.bsky.social will share work on building better benchmarks of intelligence at the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI!

📢 "Benchmarking Intelligence Better"
🗓️ Wendesday, February 5th 2025 @ 12:30
📍 Follow the link below for information about attending in person or online.

BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar - Alex Taylor Thursday, 30th January 2025 [Inspace / Zoom]

Our seminar series is kicking off this semester with Dr Alex Taylor on 'Red Teaming and the Operationalising of Responsibility', Thu 30 Jan at 4pm.

Get your ticket now! 👇

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/braid-x-id...

@designinf.bsky.social @inspacegallery.bsky.social @alex-taylor.bsky.social

Future talks:

Feb. 4: Jeff Sebo (NYU)
Feb. 25 Nick Shea (Institute of Philosophy, SAS)
Mar. 4: Tom Everitt (Google Deepmind)
Mar. 25: Rob Long (Eleos AI)
Apr. 1: Jennifer Corns (Glasgow)
Apr. 8: Martyna Stachaczyk (Cambridge)
May 6: Jonathan Birch (LSE)
TBA: Laura Sizer (Mount Holyoke)

We're excited to announce the next speaker in our AI Affect series is Amanda McCroskery (Google Deepmind)!

📢 "From Research to Practical Decision-making on Affective AI"
🗓️ January 28th, 3-4:30 PM
📍 Join us in person or online! DM for details.

Future talks:

Feb. 4: Jeff Sebo (NYU)
Feb. 25 Nick Shea (Institute of Philosophy, SAS)
Mar. 4: Tom Everitt (Google Deepmind)
Mar. 25: Rob Long (Eleos AI)
Apr. 1: Jennifer Corns (Glasgow)
Apr. 8: Martyna Stachaczyk (Cambridge)
May 6: Jonathan Birch (LSE)
TBA: Laura Sizer (Mount Holyoke)

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"The talk will close by outlining some known gaps to motivate further feedback loops between academic philosophy and practical decision-making in industry."

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"Using the history and ethics of affective computing as a case study, this talk will outline some ways in which philosophical and multidisciplinary scholarship can often be leveraged in practice."

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