Simon Coghlan
@CoghSimon
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Philosopher/ethicist, veterinarian Senior Research Fellow: Digital Ethics Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, Computing and Information Systems, Uni of Melbourne
Joined May 2018
Falling for AI fakes is can be bad. Wrongfully accusing people of using AI can be a problem too. @ConversationEDU @lucysparrowdrag Our Conversation article on this is out today:
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Even if you suspect a fake, here’s what to consider before accusing someone of using AI to create art, music or writing.
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Even if you suspect a fake, here's what to consider before accusing someone of using AI to create art, music or writing. @CoghSimon @unimelb
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Even if you suspect a fake, here’s what to consider before accusing someone of using AI to create art, music or writing.
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Can animals have privacy? What could that mean, and how might digital technology affect it? My short reply piece with with Adam Cardilini explores these questions. https://t.co/CECAydV1HE
link.springer.com
Philosophy & Technology - Emerging discussion asks whether it makes sense to speak of animal privacy and how information technologies might increasingly affect it. In an excellent recent...
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My PhD student Stella Yuan has a paper OUT in CHI on ethics of care, tech, and older adults in aged care https://t.co/khripcPDVe
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New paper on animal dignity 🫏 in Philosophy Compass. Do animals have dignity? What does that mean for how we should treat them? I outline four possible types: dignity related to inherent worth, flourishing nature, social status, and honour. https://t.co/hraneqdzHU
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
The concept of nonhuman animal dignity is much less discussed than human dignity but is starting to attract philosophical interest. This paper examines ‘animal dignity’ and details four possible...
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💩 Cut the Crap: A Critical Response to 'ChatGPT is Bullshit.' New #OpenAccess article co-authored with @CoghSimon and published in "Ethics and Information Technology"
Is ChatGPT 'bullshit'? It's...complicated. It was a pleasure to work with David Gunkel on our paper, 'Cut the Crap', just out! @David_Gunkel
https://t.co/v0XEA5TJEi
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Is ChatGPT 'bullshit'? It's...complicated. It was a pleasure to work with David Gunkel on our paper, 'Cut the Crap', just out! @David_Gunkel
https://t.co/v0XEA5TJEi
link.springer.com
Ethics and Information Technology - In a recent thought-provoking essay called “ChatGPT is Bullshit,” Hicks, Humphries and Slater call such large language models (LLMs)...
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What makes a good search engine? These 4 models can help you use search in the age of AI https://t.co/AdSAzyPMWN via @ConversationEDU
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To make sure search engines serve us well, it’s helpful to imagine these tools having different roles – whether it’s a “librarian” or a “teacher”.
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What is an ethically good search engine? Our new paper looks at this @damiano10
https://t.co/JEQ0VwZM2H
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AI and Ethics - This paper examines the ethical question, ‘What is a good search engine?’ Since search engines are gatekeepers of global online information, it is vital they do their...
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Our article "Control Search Rankings, Control the World: What is a Good Search Engine?" has now been published as #OpenAccess at the Springer's AI and Ethics journal: https://t.co/B4xfrddS5y
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AI and Ethics - This paper examines the ethical question, ‘What is a good search engine?’ Since search engines are gatekeepers of global online information, it is vital they do their...
The pre-print of our AI and Ethics journal article titled Control Search Rankings, Control the World: What is a Good Search Engine?" is now available: https://t.co/MWa3xNQcPT w/ S. Coghlan, H. X. Chai & F. Scholer
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Compassionate conservation in practice: A values-driven, interdisciplinary, pluralistic, and deliberative community https://t.co/vBuTIuvrom
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AI doesn’t just impact. Humans, also non-humans including animals.
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If left unchecked, artificial intelligence will harm animals. Experts in law, ethics and animal welfare call for AI to be included in the revised Australian Animal Welfare Strategy, coming soon.
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Animals in the machine: why the law needs to protect animals from AI https://t.co/erRm0u7hah via @ConversationEDU
theconversation.com
If left unchecked, artificial intelligence will harm animals. Experts in law, ethics and animal welfare call for AI to be included in the revised Australian Animal Welfare Strategy, coming soon.
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Ethical Dimensions of Digital Phenotyping Within the Context of Mental Healthcare: https://t.co/sVTWYvfNUv
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link.springer.com
Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science - Digital phenotyping (DP) refers to the emerging field within digital (mental) health that involves the collection of data from individual’s...
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The myth of anthropomorphizing AI, ChatGPT, and robots - my paper just out #philosophy #ChatGPT #robots: https://t.co/x9ilBlQgdH
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Minds and Machines - According to a widespread view, people often anthropomorphize machines such as certain robots and computer and AI systems by erroneously attributing mental states to them. On...
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Our latest paper on ethics, animals, and conservation with my co-author Adam Cardilini. #conservation #ethics
https://t.co/Q7vuFIUCwu
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Recent ethical debate about compassionate conservation has invoked moral theories to oppose or support traditional practices of killing animals to protect biodiversity and ecosystems. The debate has...
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@ShannonVallor's research explores how new technologies, especially AI, robotics & data science, reshape human moral character, habits & practices. Join us and @coghsimon on 9 Apr @melbconnect as we take a deep dive into Shannon's work on the AI Mirror: https://t.co/ESuQnnxBpL
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Very pleased to announce that philosopher Prof Shannon Vallor is giving a public talk at the Science Gallery at Uni Melbourne on 9th April at 6pm on AI ethics. Space is limited.
events.unimelb.edu.au
Would you ever try to chart your path up a dangerous, unfamiliar mountain while looking in a mirror facing behind you? Today’s AI technologies ar...
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Just because we can, should we? Announcing NOT NATURAL – an exhibition exploring the growing friction between natural and artificial systems and the plethora of ethical dilemmas that go along with it. Opens 17 February 2024. https://t.co/chxAoHiKhQ
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The AI Bias That’s Often Overlooked: Speciesism https://t.co/JM27VSjo8N via @sentient_media
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New research proves that large datasets used to train AI models are particularly biased against farm animals.
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