pak-hang wong, phd

Article in Chinese on AI and affective injustice through the case of Moxie's decommission.

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After Harm: A Plea for Moral Repair after Algorithms Have Failed - Science and Engineering Ethics In response to growing concerns over the societal impacts of AI and algorithmic decision-making, current scholarly and legal efforts have mainly focused on identifying risks and implementing safeguard...

New paper is out! After Harm: A Plea for Moral Repair after Algorithms Have Failed.

@aktant.bsky.social & I show that post-harm scenarios have not received enough attention and argue why attending to them is essential for a satisfactory account of AI ethics and governance.

doi.org/10.1007/s119...

SPT SIG Virtue Ethics Symposium starts! We are in a different building (Atlas 2.015—there is a bridge from Auditorium to reach us) but do come listening to some exciting talks if you are interested in virtue ethics.

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#SPT2025 is happening in Eindhoven next week! I'll present a paper on the ethics of digital doppelgangers at the symposium organised by SPT SIG Virtue Ethics. Looking forward to meeting old and new friends!

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This is the latest addition to my on-going project on Confucian Ethics of Technology. In this paper, I move beyond the normative resources in the early Confucian to Neo-Confucian philosophy. Looking forward to sharing the ideas at CEACOP.

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Social and Ethical Considerations of AI in East Asia and Beyond This book is a global reflection on disparate religious and philosophical approaches to questions of AI and ways questions affect East Asian societies

New book on #AIEthics from #EasternPhilosophy and #WesternPhilosophy perspectives! With contributions from @drybis.bsky.social , @kiwigreenflame.bsky.social , @karenhao.bsky.social , and many more!!

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Confucian ‘Trustworthy AI’: Diversifying a Keyword in the Ethics of AI and Governance The term ‘trustworthy AI’ has become one of the keywords in the academic and policy discussion of the social, ethical, and legal issues of artificial intelligence (AI), but it remains a co...

Confucian 'Trustworthy AI', my 2nd publication of 2025.

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Anthropic Wants You to Use AI—Just Not to Apply for Its Jobs The company asks candidates to certify that they will not use AI during the application process.

The irony

gizmodo.com/anthropic-wa...

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#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...

Philosophy Eats AI AI’s ability to create value rests on the philosophy determining how and what it learns.

Why Do Philosophy Now?

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If true, this spells the end of policy-relevant philosophy and ethics, not to mention Tech Ethics and related topics (more so if it applies to humanities and social sciences funding agencies).

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Reinforcement Learning Heats Up, White House Orders Muscular AI Policy, and more... The Batch AI News and Insights: The buzz over DeepSeek this week crystallized, for many people, a few important trends that have been happening in...

Andrew Ng: "If the U.S. continues to stymie open source, China will come to dominate this part of the supply chain and many businesses will end up using ***models that reflect China’s values*** much more than America’s"

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CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don’t Like Making Music "I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music.”

(Read: Let's not learn anything hard but only gratify instantly.)

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About a quarter of U.S. teens have used ChatGPT for schoolwork – double the share in 2023 Teens are far more likely to say it’s acceptable to use ChatGPT for research (54%) than for math problems (29%) and essays (18%).

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Hey folks! I have a chance to promote new books on AI/tech that deserve attention this year. Looking for books that will offer a critical or novel perspective, not empty hype, and that are engaging for non-academics as well as researchers. Anything w/release date before August. What do you suggest?

Philosophy and science fiction syllabus for the 2nd round of the classs! Two big differences to other Phil+sci-fi syllabi: it's for upper division students, not intro; no pairing with 'normal' philosophy readings, just using the SFF as philosophical texts. Very discussion focused
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- Posthumous harm
- Grief with technology
- Monuments and public memorials

If you know any good articles/resources for these topics, please send them my way 🧠🧠🧠

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Semester starts next week, so it's time to finalize the topics for the course *Contemporary Ethical Problems*, and I think I am settling on:
- Procreation and antinatalism
- Future persons
- Meaning of Life
- Casual relations and technology
- Self-porn
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Save the date 19-20 June 2025 in Rotterdam and submit an abstract before 15 February 2025 ! We also welcome artistic submissions!

more info here: www.eur.nl/en/news/call...

#AI #criminology #digitalcriminology

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Why the writing is on the wall for essay writing Will 2025 be the year we give up the teaching of writing? I don’t mean the basics, of course; elementary pupils still need to learn their letters. (How

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Images, Moral Feelings, and Rites: Engaging Confucianism with Philosophy of Technology - Dao Technology is increasingly prominent as a topic of philosophical and normative reflection, as recent technological advancements in areas such as artificial intelligence and climate technologies have d...

doi.org/10.1007/s117...

"Images, Moral Feelings, and Rites"—a new paper on Confucian #PhilTech published. In this paper, Xiaowei Wang and I outline a Confucian approach to human-technology relations and put Confucian philosophy in dialogue with postphenomenology directly.

Enjoy and let us know what you think!

This is funny because I was recently marveling at how much knobs/dials on appliances rock. Especially when they have some weight/resistance - they tell your body you’re doing a thing. Incredibly physically and mentally satisfying compared to anything I have to do by tapping on an app

Whitepaper on the concept of an #Agent in Generative AI by Google. www.kaggle.com/whitepaper-a...

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AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines Surrendering to algorithmic agents risks putting us under their influence.

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AI’s Walking Dog - Boston Review Today’s tech inverts the value of the creative process.

"Any reservations about AI get you dismissed as a Luddite—though it’s worth remembering that it was the Luddites, not the mill owners, who understood more holistically what the impact of the new mill machinery would be." – Brian Eno knows the truth of Luddism. www.bostonreview.net/forum_respon...