Colin Allen

Harvard should leave the United States | The Opinion Pages Harvard is preparing for its four-hundredth anniversary in 2036, just as the federal government is trying to eviscerate higher education. Unfortunately, Harvard shows signs of succumbing to the govern...

A suggestion from me and Adina... theopinionpages.com/2025/09/harv...

In case you’re wondering where this link went, there had to be some re-editing so the new *permanent* link is this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS_g...

YouTube video by Templeton World Charity Foundation Diverse Intelligences: The Search for Joy in Animals

Have you been wondering what we've been doing in our TWCF @templetonworld.bsky.social project on animal joy? This video wonderfully produced by Richard Sergay @storiesofimpact.bsky.social explains all! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TkY...

Rocket launch. Here’s a similar one from Vandenburgh over Goleta a few weeks ago

PAMBA Prize — PAMBA

We are pleased to invite submissions for the 2025 PAMBA Prize essay contest in the philosophy of animal minds for early-career researchers. The winning paper will be published in Biology & Philosophy and presented as a keynote at the meeting in Santa Barbara. For details: www.the-pamba.com/prize

Nice commute :)

Submission deadline: September 30, 2023. Submissions should include:
(1) a 1-2 sentence biography of the participant,
(2) a 1-2 sentence statement of interest for attending the workshop, and
(3) an abstract or a description of your proposed contribution of no more than 500 words.

Keynote speakers:
Megan Stevenson, University of Virginia Law School
Shakeer Rahman, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
Pablo Nuñez, Centro de Estudos de Segurança e Cidadania (CESeC)
Gabbrielle Johnson, Claremont McKenna College, Department of Philosophy

but not limited to philosophy, law, and the social sciences. Participants will be invited to contribute to a special report on carceral AI.

how such technologies both inform and interact with topics including incarceration, policing, migration, privatization, surveillance, racial and gender justice, and resistance. We welcome contributions from civil society organizations and academic researchers from disciplines including ...

AI systems can interact in complicated ways with existing social and legal structures, reinforce or mask existing structural injustices, and expand the reach of carceral systems under the guise of scientific rigor. Participants in this workshop are invited to explore ...

electronic monitoring, and audio gunshot locators. Such technologies are often introduced as 'smart', 'evidence-based', or 'data-driven' reforms that claim to reduce bias and increase efficiency, such as 'evidence-based' sentencing and 'smart' borders. In practice, however, ...

a broad class of algorithmic and data-driven practices implicated in the control and incarceration of people. Examples include predictive policing, facial recognition, recidivism risk assessment instruments, automatic license plate readers, border surveillance systems, biometric databases, ...

Prediction and Punishment: Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Carceral AI February 9-10, 2024
This cross-disciplinary workshop will provide an interactive meeting point for researchers to address the expanding use of AI in criminal legal contexts. We use the term 'carceral AI' to refer to ...

More info about the workshop at https://www.centerphilsci.pitt.edu/event/prediction-and-punishment-cross-disciplinary-workshop-on-carceral-ai/
#philsci #aiethics

Text version of flyer text at this site or below...

Flyer for a cross disciplinary workshop. Text version in following posts.

CfP for February workshop "Prediction and Punishment: Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Carceral AI" that Dasha Pruss (with a tiny amount of help from me) is organizing at the Pitt Center for Philosophy of Science. Please forward widely and consider submitting something.

More info in posts below