📣 We’re hiring a postdoc to join our project on Artificial Consciousness, check out the job ad here: philjobs.org/job/show/32469

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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

🤖 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...

How can we better design AI to support human flourishing, rather than diminish it?

This question is at the heart of my project with Louis Tay and Ashton Anderson.

Here is a short piece from @torontosri.bsky.social about the project, funded by @templeton_fdn: srinstitute.utoronto.ca/news/sri-res...

Will AI be the next great scientist? Join us Sept. 25 for an exploration of the promises, limits, & ethical implications of AI in scientific research & discovery.

With @aspuru.bsky.social, Rosa Cao, @kathleencreel.bsky.social, Sina Fazelpour, & @karinavold.bsky.social

Register: uoft.me/cCT

👋 Torontonians:
Join me for canapés & a conversation about the role of AI in Science 🧬 🤖

This year’s Technophilosophy Soiree is on Sept 25th, 5-7pm

Our speakers are Sina Fazelpour, Rosa Cao, Kathleen Creel, and Alan Aspuru-Guzik.

🫵 Register here technophilosophy.ca

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