Anna Strasser

AI and Consciousness title page

New book in draft: AI and Consciousness [link in thread]
This book is a skeptical overview of the literature on AI and consciousness.
Anyone who emails me comments on the entire manuscript will be thanked in print and receive an appreciatively signed hard copy.

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an ONLINE EVENT for discussing | exchanging news & ideas | networking with other researchers:
--> 9 October 2025 from 5 pm (CET) to 6 pm
TOPIC: Different perspectives on the (post)phenomenological
debate on digitization
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Can AI systems have free will? - Synthese While there has been much discussion of whether AI systems could function as moral agents or acquire sentience, there has been very little discussion of whether AI systems could have free will. I sket...

Can AI systems have free will? - das fragt unser Mitglied
@clist.bsky.social im folgenden #OpenAccess - Artikel:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#KI #AI #KuenstlicheIntelligenz #ArtificialIntelligence #FreierWille #FreeWill #Philosophy #Philosophie

Against AI welfare: Care practices should prioritize living beings over AI In this Comment, we critique the growing “AI welfare” movement and propose a novel guideline, the Precarity Guideline, to determine care entitlement. In contrast to approaches that emphasize potentia...

Our article is finally published! "Against AI welfare: Care practices should prioritize living beings over AI" 🎉

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thank you so much to my incredible co-authors1

#AIethics
#ArtificialIntelligence
#PhilosophyOfAI
#AIWelfare
#EnvironmentalEthics

In the middle of the night, the second issue of the new open access journal P&D, Philosophy & Digitality, was published:

A special Issue on
LLMs and the Patterns of Human Language Use
journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/ph...

Events - THE AI CON Upcoming CTMF-GAIL Seminar (Edinburgh), June 20, 2025 Alex will do a fireside chat with Shannon Vallor, hosted by the University of Edinburgh’s Generative AI Laboratory. UTS (Sydney), June 25, 2025 Em...

The AI Con book tour continues!

June 30: Alex in Berlin
July 1: Emily in Melbourne
July 16: Emily in Cambridge

Details: thecon.ai/events/

w/@alexhanna.bsky.social

I am really looking forward to reading this book - this Element is free online from 9th June 2025 - 23rd June 2025

a chart showing power consumption of big tech companies

hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice)

ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...

Evolution

Latest papers: Joshua Rust explores what a predictive processing account would look like if it began at the beginning of an evolutionary process doi.org/10.1080/0951...

I don't aim to create a digital replica of myself, but I can't stop thinking about digital replicas. In this paper, Jurgis Karpus and I explore the extent to which one may say that slivers of the original person live on in their digital replica.
Open Access at
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Die USA zeigen, wie hilflos Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen auf den Angriff der #Trump-Autokraten reagieren. Die Wahrheit ist: Die deutschen #Wissenschaftsinstitutionen wären nicht besser vorbereitet.

Im #WiardaBlog: www.jmwiarda.de/2025/02/24/a...

Apply for this conference and we can discuss online!

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YouTube video by Robinson Erhardt Ned Block: Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Philosophy of Mind

Excellent interview of @neddo.bsky.social (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1f...)

I've written a poem in memory of Dan Dennett, based loosely on Auden's elegy for W B Yeats and full of references to Dan's philosophy. I'd like to place it with a literary magazine, online or print. Can anyone suggest one that might like this kind of thing, please? (DM if you'd like to see the poem)

‘As real as it ever gets’: Dennett’s conception of the mind | Aeon Essays Often metaphorical and allusive, the philosopher’s work will long be remembered for how it grappled with everyday thought

Thinking of Dan
aeon.co/essays/as-re...

Love to be added.

Long live inbetweenism :)

Join My Graduate Seminar on Robot, Alien, and AI Consciousness

Reminder: Nov 5 deadline to express for PhD students and postdocs in philosophy to express interest in remotely attending my Winter Quarter grad seminar on Robot, Alien, and AI consciousness.
schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2024/10/join...

If you want to hear REAL HUMANS discussing Keith's paper, come to the hybrid BOOK LAUNCH of "Anna's AI Anthology. How to live with smart machines?"
7 OCTOBER 2024, 8 pm (Berlin time) more information: denkwerkstatt.berlin/NEXT-EVENT-B...
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1.472.064!

Social Cognition and Agency: Being Human in the Age of AI To Register - Click the link on the right side or at the bottom of the page. Once on the KU event page, scroll down to where it says Register here (under Dial-in Information). Social Cognition and A...

A workshop on 23-24 Sept titled "Social Cognition and Agency: Being Human in the Age of AI." with a great lineup of people. Cameron Buckner, Anna Strasser, Corey Maley, Eric Schwitzgabel, Sven Nyholm, Caroline Arruda, David Tamez. FREE to attend!! philevents.org/event/show/1.... #philtech #philsky

I will give a talk at a workshop (organized by Syed AbuMusab)
with a great line-up, including Eric Schwitzgebel, Sven Nyholm, Cameron Buckner, Caroline Arruda, Corely Maley, David Tamez
ONLINE – September 23 & 24
Join us & register at
i2s-research.ku.edu/social-cogni...

YOU ARE ALL WELCOME TO the hybrid BOOK LAUNCH of "Anna's AI Anthology. How to live with smart machines?"
7 OCTOBER 2024, 8 pm (Berlin time)

REGISTER HERE: forms.gle/M1KYVgpVCPKf...

more information at: www.denkwerkstatt.berlin/NEXT-EVENT-B...

“Anna’s AI anthology” made its way to the book fair of the world congress of philosophy in Rome:
If you want to buy a copy follow this link
www.xenomoi.de/philosophie/...

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Register at Robophilosophy 2024 (hybrid event):
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SOCIAL ROBOTS WITH AI: PROSPECTS, RISKS, AND RESPONSIBLE METHODS
*great line-up including @davidchalmers.bsky.social @eschwitz.bsky.social @melaniemitchell.bsky.social @davidgunkel.bsky.social

CALL FOR REGISTRATION
(Berlin & online: August 29-30, 2024)
Save your place (online or in person) for the hybrid workshop 'LLMs and the Patterns of Human Language Use'.

Just fill in the registration form on the website:
www.denkwerkstatt.berlin/LLMs-in-Berlin
@j2bryson.bsky.social

Anna's AI Anthology. How to live with smart machines? (Editor: Anna Strasser) ( Für die deutsche Beschreibung siehe unten ) With the release of ChatGPT , large language models (LLMs) have become a prominent topic of…

I am proud to announce the release of "Anna's AI Anthology. How to live with smart machines" with essays by Dennett,
Frankish, Schwitzgebel, Nyholm, Shevlin, and many others and an accompanying graphic novel.
PLEASE share widely 😊 and order at www.xenomoi.de/philosophie/...

Anna's AI Anthology. How to live with smart machines? (Editor: Anna Strasser) ( Für die deutsche Beschreibung siehe unten ) With the release of ChatGPT , large language models (LLMs) have become a prominent topic of…

I am very excited to announce the release of Anna's AI Anthology for May and would like to thank all authors for their contributions!
Preorders are already possible: www.xenomoi.de/philosophie/...

CFP – hybrid workshop 'LLMs and the patterns of human language use' in Berlin
DEADLINE: 15.4.2024

We invite contributions that contribute to a better understanding of the potential of LLM applications.

For details: www.denkwerkstatt.berlin/NEXT-EVENT

Berlin people: There is another interesting talk at the Urbayn
www.momo-berlin.de/.../chinese-....