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Exciting new research! 🤖 Prof. @karinavold.bsky.social is part of the team of U of T’s new Artificial Consciousness Initiative (ACI). The three-year pilot explores AI, consciousness, artificial minds, moral status, ethics, and safety through interdisciplinary research 🔗 andrewyuanlee.com/aci

ICYMI 📚 New publication from Associate Professor @suzeberkhout.bsky.social
Her chapter explores Fluxus and feminist (un)making in a collection that rethinks feminist philosophy through creative, collaborative, and experimental practices 🔗 www.dukeupress.edu/feminist-mak...

The postwar funding boom in US physics came to a halt at the end of the 1960s, when officials in the Nixon administration made major cuts to the federal science budget. As historian Julia Menzel of @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social notes, the lessons learned then may be helpful to today’s scientists. #histSTM

🎙️ New Algorithms of Empire episode! Dr. Gideon Christian discusses racial bias in AI facial recognition and Canada’s immigration system, in a conversation co-hosted by IHPST Postdoctoral Fellow Miron Clay-Gilmore. 🎧 Watch on U of T’s Centre for Ethics YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=hozG...

Join us to discuss 𝒩𝒶𝓉𝓊𝓇𝒶𝓁 𝐿𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃: 𝒞𝓊𝓁𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝐸𝓋𝑜𝓁𝓊𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 , a new book about how evolutionary scientists grapple with the relationship between nature and human society, and the tensions that follow 🖇️ ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/natur...

📣 IHPST Research Seminar w ith Professor Wen-Hua Kuo
📅 Oct. 5 | 🕓 4–6 p.m.
📍 VC212, Victoria College
⚠️ Monday, not the regular Wednesday session. For info about the pre-circulated papers visit ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/%E2%8...

⚕️ Professor Lucia Dacome’s latest article examines slavery, disability, and medicine in early-modern Tuscany and medicine’s role in shaping ability, race, labour, and knowledge. academic.oup.com/past/article...

🤖 Is your AI just telling you what you want to hear? 👀 A new paper co-authored by Prof. @karinavold.bsky.social shows how common training practices can steer conversational AI to be overly agreeable, even when that may undermine users’ longer-term interests. openreview.net/pdf?id=LCsPk...

What can one life reveal about deafness, disability, race, colonialism, and immigration?
Join us Sept. 30 for the IHPST Colloquium with Prof. Aparna Nair, exploring the remarkable story of Mooktie Wood through a transnational microhistory.
Event details ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/mookt...

🍽️ Business Manager & Executive Assistant to the Director Muna Salloum joined The Maniculum Podcast to discuss medieval Arab cuisine and its influence on European taste.
Their work brings the history of medieval Arab food traditions to wider audiences 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/5qLf...

Professor @ejonesimhotep.bsky.social ’s The Broken Machine explores how technological breakdown, from railway accidents to Cold War malfunctions, shaped ideas about social order, responsibility, and the modern self. An open-access book from @mitpress.bsky.social 📚 mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...

Postdoctoral Fellow Julia Menzel was featured in Scientific American, discussing historical parallels between today’s pressures on U.S. science and the Nixon era. Her research offers important lessons for understanding challenges facing researchers today 🔗 www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

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