Cody Turner

New IEET/AEC White Paper on neurotechnology governance, by Dr. Cody Turner.
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We discuss many topics under the AI ethics sun, including AI and cognitive offloading, the future of work, AI and virtue ethics, Transhumanism versus Ludditism, existential risk, utopias and fully automated luxury communism, the promise of AI in science, and the ethics of AI companions.

AI and the Good Life In this episode, I speak with my former student, Aiden Gilroy. Aiden is currently a sophomore at the University of Notre Dame, majoring in Political Science and Philosophy, and working as a researc…

In this episode of my podcast, I speak with my former student, Aiden Gilroy. Aiden is currently a sophomore at the University of Notre Dame, majoring in Political Science and Philosophy, and working as a research writer for the Notre Dame New AI Project: codyturnercreations.com/57-ai-and-th...

IEET/AEC Seminar
The Ethics, Uses, and Risks of Brain-Computer Interfaces
April 23 - 10am-3pm - UMass Boston
Open to the public

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Brain-computer interface series, episode 9: Cody and I are joined by Stephen Rainey, professor of Philosophy at Delft University, specializing in neuroethics and neurophilosophy, and is the author of the 2023 book Philosophical Perspectives on Brain Data.
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the differing data collection models in the U.S., China, and the EU, his critique of the EU’s GDPR privacy laws, and his proposal for government-managed anonymized medical data collection to enhance technological competitiveness and support universal healthcare.

Topics include Nietzschean philosophy and its connection to transhumanism, metahumanism and how it differs from both transhumanism and posthumanism, Sorgner's 'we have always been cyborgs' thesis, his critique of traditional utopianism,

Dr. Sorgner is a philosophy professor at John Cabot University in Rome, Director and Co-Founder of the Beyond Humanism Network, and Editor-in-Chief and Founder of the Journal of Posthuman Studies. We discuss several aspects of his wide-ranging work.

In this eighth episode of the Umass Boston Ethics in Action Podcast series on BCIs (brain-computer interfaces), J Hughes and I are joined by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner: ethics.podbean.com/e/cyborg-eth...

MindFest 2025: Sentience, Autonomy and the Future of Human-AI Interaction MindFest 2025: Sentience, Autonomy and the Future of Digital Agency March 12–13, 2025 | The Center for the Future Mind | Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL Join us at MindFest...

Come down to Florida in March for this year's MindFest. Cody Turner and I will speak, along with Kristin Andrews, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Robin Hanson, Zoltan Istvan, Susan Schneider, Mark Bailey, Tam Hunt, Jonathan Schooler, Julia Mossbridge and more TBA!
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In this seventh episode of our series on BCIs (brain-computer interfaces), we are joined by Sara Goering (Philosophy, UWashington). We discuss
disability and neuroethics, the BCI Pioneers Coalition, relational agency, and the extended mind.
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Dr. Gilbert's research focuses on the ethics of novel implantable brain-computer interfaces operated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). We discuss several aspects of Dr. Gilbert’s wide-ranging work, focusing on deep brain stimulation (DBS).

In this sixth episode of the Umass Boston Ethics in Action Podcast mini-series on brain-computer interfaces, James Hughes and I are joined by Dr. Frederic Gilbert, Associate Professor and the Head of the Discipline for Philosophy at the University of Tasmania.

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Katie Peters, Cody Turner & Heather Battaly, Intellectual Humility without Open-mindedness: How to Respond to Extremist Views - PhilPapers How should we respond to extremist views that we know are false? This paper proposes that we should be intellectually humble, but not open-minded. We should own our intellectual limitations, but ...

Katie Peters, Heather Battaly, and I have co-authored an article titled "Intellectual Humility without Open-mindedness: How to Respond to Extremist Views," forthcoming in the journal Episteme: philpapers.org/rec/PETIHW

Summary: How should we respond to extremist views that we know are false? This paper proposes that we should be intellectually humble, but not open-minded. We should own our intellectual limitations, but be unwilling to revise our beliefs in the falsity of the extremist views.

Katie Peters, Cody Turner & Heather Battaly, Intellectual Humility without Open-mindedness: How to Respond to Extremist Views - PhilPapers How should we respond to extremist views that we know are false? This paper proposes that we should be intellectually humble, but not open-minded. We should own our intellectual limitations, but ...

Katie Peters, Heather Battaly, and I have co-authored an article titled "Intellectual Humility without Open-mindedness: How to Respond to Extremist Views," forthcoming in the journal Episteme: philpapers.org/rec/PETIHW

genetic algorithms and AI systems subjected to simulated evolutionary pressures, studying introspection in animals versus AI, leveraging AI to better understand animal minds and promote animal welfare, wild animal welfare, zoo ethics, and the challenge of measuring animal welfare.

We discuss a variety of topics, including the evolution of consciousness, Walter's concept of phenomenological complexity, the adaptive functions of consciousness, artificial minds and AI consciousness, the possibility of superintelligent AI surpassing the need for consciousness,

56. Evolution, AI, and Animal Minds (with Dr. Walter Veit) In this episode, I speak with Dr. Walter Veit, an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Reading. Walter is a wide-ranging philosopher working primarily at the intersections of the …

In this episode of my podcast, I speak with Dr. Walter Veit, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Reading: codyturnercreations.com/56-evolution...