Paula Satne

AI-induced psychosis: the danger of humans and machines hallucinating together We’ve always relied on friends and family to confirm our sense of reality. Now we’re increasingly expecting AIs to do it instead.

Our sense of reality is intimately entwined with our interactions with other people. What happens when those interactions are instead with social AI? See my piece on (so-called) ‘AI-induced psychosis’ in The Conversation

theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...

AI Psychosis Is Rarely Psychosis at All A wave of AI users presenting in states of psychological distress gave birth to an unofficial diagnostic label. Experts say it’s neither accurate nor needed, but concede that it’s likely to stay.

Chatbots are explicitly being designed “to elicit intimacy and emotional engagement in order to increase our trust in and dependency on them” (me in Wired magazine 🤭). This designed intimacy combined with AI sycophancy creates serious risks for delusional thinking

www.wired.com/story/ai-psy...

Was great to talk to Jim Baxter of the @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social podcast about my and Georgie Mill's work on cancelling.

New paper in @the-joap.bsky.social together with @benjaminmatheson.bsky.social on political apologies that consign injustice to the past.

The Age of De-Skilling Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them?

I've been trying to get deskilling into AI ethics for probably five years, and this Appiah essay trying to do this is a total mess www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is a poster for the first advertised event "Objectification and Sexualisation". The poster lists the speakers: Ana Cláudia Barbosa - Spectral Subjugation: Posthuman Objectification of Women in the Digital Age; Matthew J. Cull - Objectification in Posthumanist Feminism; Regina Fidelis Ilagan - A Consumable Monster: The South East Asian Sex Worker; Matthew Robson - Varieties of Sexual Exclusion; Kate Yuan - Sexual Humiliation as a State Project. The poster also provides the location: IDEA: The Ethics Centre, 17 Blenheim Terrace, and repeats the link to fuller information (in the main post).

Registration is open for two events happening 3rd & 4th December at Leeds @idea-leeds.bsky.social!

Objectification & Sexualisation: philevents.org/event/show/1...
Sex, Deception and Consent: www.eventbrite.ie/e/sex-decept...

These events mark the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence.

Wonderful news and a discount code until the end of November!!

So excited to be starting my research with CLSR! I’ve loved being here for my undergraduate and master’s degrees, and I’m really looking forward to continuing to work alongside such an amazing community🫶🫶

The Future of Practical Ethics conference in Leeds 8-10 September with three panels on the ethics of AI! Come and join us!

AI can be your wingman when online dating – but should you let it? Apps and users might be hopeful that Gen-AI can make dating apps fun again.

My latest article about AI in online dating with @nmckeever3.bsky.social in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/ai-can-be-yo...

The Future of Practical Ethics conference in Leeds 8-10 September with three panels on the ethics of AI! Come and join us!

"Bluesky is dead."

Meanwhile, on Bluesky...

#NewArticle Rethinking the Ethics of GenAI in Higher Education: A Critique of Moral Arguments and Policy Implications | Karl de Fine Licht #philsky #philosophy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/UHQUJW...

Ethicists have raised concerns about these systems, and these concerns are worth taking seriously, but Dr Nick Makins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Leeds, thinks they can be answered, & that the use of these systems can be justified, at least in some circumstances.

Have you booked your space on our public lecture with Gavin Esler?

In the latest episode of @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social Jim Baxter speaks to Luke Ulas, University of Sheffield and Josh Hobbs from IDEA about Cosmopolitanism - "the idea that all human beings, regardless of their political affiliation, are (or can and should be) citizens in a single community."

Join us for a 20th anniversary lecture by journalist & author Gavin Esler, examining the crisis of trust in politics & media. He'll discuss themes from his book, Britain Is Better Than This, focusing on "the politics of distraction" & ways to rebuild trust in public life.
book here: buff.ly/lGAbhA2

New Issue of Journal of Applied Philosophy with a Special Issue on Commemorating Evildoers edited by me and Oliver Hallich #philsky #philosophy @idea-leeds.bsky.social

Europa League win changes everything for Spurs as club eye new future Ange Postecoglou makes good on his promise to end 17-year trophy drought on a momentous night in Bilbao

Read on Spurs’ big night for today’s @thelondonstandard.bsky.social. What it means, how they did it and where they — and Postecoglou — might go from here: www.standard.co.uk/sport/footba...

This means EVERYTHING. Tottenham Hotspur’s Europa League victory is not just silverware. It represents a fundamental reshaping of the club.

Tottenham's Europa League Championship is more than just a peice of silverware. It's a fundamental reshaping of the club and what it means to be Spurs.

It is in fair (or at least fairer) social and political conditions that we can pursue both moral and personal ends and flourish.

Ultimately, in the Kantian picture, the task of moral self-improvement also has a social dimension: we must avoid being complicit with the injustices of our time and instead work towards overturning them.

However, although morality and happiness are not intrinsically incompatible, they are likely to conflict under unstable and unjust external conditions. Thus, the extent to which we can live a completely morally good life is not independent of social and political conditions.

On this reading, far from endorsing an ‘ascetic ideal’ of the moral agent, Kant embraces an ideal of the human life in which there is significant space, and even a duty, to pursue pleasurable endeavours.

Paula Satne, Moral Development, Repentance, and Self-Affirmation - PhilPapers This article engages closely with David Owen’s ‘Autonomy, Self-Respect, and Self-Love: Nietzsche on Ethical Agency.’ Owen argues that Kant tried, but ultimately failed, to resolve the tension between ...

philpapers.org/rec/SATMDR-2

I argue that the Kantian project of moral transformation, which involves repenting immoral maxims, can also be understood as a form of flourishing and self-affirmation, which includes the pursuit of happiness as one of its components.

Introduction Click on the article title to read more.

The introduction to the Special Issue 'Commemorating Evildoers' is out (pre-view). I am told the whole issue will come out soon. Co-edited with Hallich for Journal of Applied Philosophy #ethics @idea-leeds.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Public lecture at @idea-leeds.bsky.social by Journalist Gavin Esler. He’ll be asking how to restore trust to public life. Free to attend!

American-born Cardinal Robert F. Prevost is elected pope The “Latin Yankee,” as he is known in Rome, worked 20 years in Peru’s poorest enclave and even became a naturalized citizen there.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago who is now the first American-born pope, has spent most of his career outside of the U.S, ministering to the dispossessed and marginalized.

The “Latin Yankee,” as he is known in Rome, worked 20 years in Peru.

🎙️ What makes the master’s dominance over the slave morally wrong? In this episode of Daybreak we sit down with @joe-saunders.bsky.social to break open Hegel's master-slave dialectic 🔥 #philsky #PhilosophyMatters 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/2KPe...

Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic Unpacked Podcast Episode · Daybreak · 03/31/2025 · 49m

And on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...