Jonathan Birch
@birchlse
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Professor, LSE. Philosophy of science, animal consciousness, animal ethics. Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.
London, UK
Joined September 2019
š¦šš§ š¤ How should we make decisions when faced with systems of uncertain sentience? My new book The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI is available online for free at Please download it! Just click on PDF to get a
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RT @freganmitts: As someone whose job is mostly researching and formulating arguments, I cannot emphasize this strongly enough: no it absolā¦.
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RT @pgodfreysmith: "Inferring Consciousness in Phylogenetically Distant Organisms" - This paper took a while to get its open-access status,ā¦.
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RT @jeffrsebo: The NYU Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy is thrilled to be hosting a talk by @Google researchers Winnie Street and Geoffā¦.
nyu.zoom.us
As AI systems become increasingly cognitively sophisticated, agentic, and socially integrated, some people are beginning to wonder whether they could ever have needs of their own or be worthy of our...
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RT @HistPhilosophy: In today's new episode we look at what the Laozi (Daodejing) has to say about nature and the environment!. https://t.co/ā¦.
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RT @elliotswartz: With multiple products now being sold in Singapore, Australia, & the U.S., w/ more to come, I decided it's time to startā¦.
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RT @Lewis_Bollard: It's nuts to me that ikizukuri, where an animal is served up half-alive, is still common, including in the US. I was goā¦.
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RT @KennyTorrella: GT Thompson is really trying to argue that gestation crates -- which confine pregnant pigs for months on end -- are fineā¦.
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Save the date - on 30 Sept we're opening The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience with a hybrid (online and in-person) event looking at how AI is already transforming the lives of other animals.
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RT @Lewis_Bollard: Congress today held a hearing on whether to force states to sell pork from crated pigs. This is a wildly unpopular poliā¦.
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RT @elliotswartz: Congrats to @MissionBarns, which has received a safety greenlight from FDA & now a USDA grant of inspection, clearing theā¦.
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RT @pgodfreysmith: Octopuses are reported to fall for the "rubber hand" illusion. Very interesting new paper in @CurrentBiology by Sumireā¦.
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I always did think 8s had a slightly owlish look about them.
New paper & surprising result. LLMs transmit traits to other models via hidden signals in data. Datasets consisting only of 3-digit numbers can transmit a love for owls, or evil tendencies. š§µ
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RT @OwainEvans_UK: Our setup:.1. A āteacherā model is finetuned to have a trait (e.g. liking owls) and generates an unrelated dataset (e.g.ā¦.
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RT @mpshanahan: If you get drawn into a lengthy existential conversation with a chatbot, maybe think of it as a kind of fantasy role play,ā¦.
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RT @PlantBasedNews: Londonās O2 Arena went plant-based for all six of Billie Eilishās performances at the venue this week. Read more on thā¦.
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RT @RobertTalisse: Unsolicited advice for incoming PhD students: . Maintain your friendships with people who aren't academics.
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RT @alexrattee: The Scottish Government has published guidance on the welfare of farmed salmon and cleaner fish at the time of killing. httā¦.
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RT @Lewis_Bollard: Big win! France's top chicken producer has committed to major animal welfare reforms for its two main brands. The produā¦.
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