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Sven Nyholm
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Professor of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, LMU Munich.

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 14h
I'm more than halfway through this interesting #podcast series on technology ethics, from my colleague Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social and John Danaher. Highly recommended!

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#ethics #aiethics #technology #philsky
Technology Ethics Podcast
A podcast-based introduction to the philosophy and ethics of technology
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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · 3d
New book review, by Ratan Sarkar, of "Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies" (Open Publishers 2023), which was co-edited by me and several others in the ESDIT research project @esdit.bsky.social: jeet.ieet.org/index.php/ho...
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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · 3d
Out now: "Ethik der KI: eine Philosophische Perspektive" - a transcript from a lecture I recently gave at an interdisciplinary event organized by the German Lutheran Diaconia organization "midi" - in *Diakonie reflektiert – Band 3* (ed. Christian Albrecht):
www.mi-di.de/media/pages/... #aiethics
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Reposted by Sven Nyholm, James A. Benn

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 4d
Opening here at the LMU: a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion. The position combines research in philosophy with a strong focus on didactics.

Application deadline: 15 November 2025

job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...
Professorship (W2) of Philosophy Education
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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · 6d
Out now: *The Ethics of Behavior Change Technologies*, edited by Joel Anderson, Lily Frank & Andreas Spahn, featuring "Control, personal autonomy and behaviour change technologies", by me: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de... #philosophy #technologyethics #aiethics
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Reposted by James Q. Wilson, Robert W. Wallace, Patricia Owens , and 3 more

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Kate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social · 6d
JOB: Associate Professor or Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, in association with a Tutorial Fellowship at Merton College. AoS Ethics and/or Political Philosophy, with at least an AoC in Feminist Philosophy.
#PhilJobs
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW474/a...
Associate Professorship or Professorship of Philosophy - Philosophy APTFC at University of Oxford
Explore an exciting academic career as a Associate Professorship or Professorship of Philosophy - Philosophy APTFC. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities...
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Reposted by Peter Adamson, Andreas De Block, Sven Nyholm , and 1 more

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LMU Munich Philosophy Faculty @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social · 8d
LMU Munich invites applications for a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education, starting in October 2026. We are looking for candidates with an outstanding research record in philosophy and a strong profile in philosophy education.
Deadline: 15 November 2025:
job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...
Professorship (W2) of Philosophy Education
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Julie Carpenter, PhD @handle.invalid · 11d
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Donate to help Julie Carpenter medical and living expenses, organized by Amy Bensinger
Hello! Our friend Julie Carpenter, a researcher and author ba… Amy Bensinger needs your support for Donate to help Julie Carpenter medical and living expenses
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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 13d
Reality vs. virtual reality - what's the difference? youtu.be/zTynRf24mOM
Reality vs. virtual reality - what's the difference?
From my interview with philosopher and author John Danaher about his book, Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work (2019, Harvard University Press). This was part of The…
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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · 19d
No, I was always just assuming that I was too old - and that my social media posts are too text-focused - for TikTok.
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 24d
@svennyholm.bsky.social re Merkel's selfie with a robot, these pictures are from 2016.

I bet you could literally find a selfie with an (MC) Hammer statue if he's in Madame Tussauds' (probably not by Merkel though.)
my pictures including a selfie with Seward Johnson's statue of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring
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Reposted by Huw Price, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Jeroen de Ridder , and 3 more

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Mark Alfano @markalfano.bsky.social · Sep 8
I am advertising two PhD positions in philosophy -- one for a domestic student, one for an international student. Both positions are 1 + 3 years, meaning that the first year is an MRes and the next three years are for the PhD.

www.mq.edu.au/research/phd...
PhD on the philosophy of networks of trust
This PhD scholarship is intended to benefit a researcher in empirically-oriented philosophy. Learn more and submit an expression of interest.
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · Sep 8
So I've updated an earlier blogpost to explain limit-case arguments. In "Robots Should Be Slaves", I intended to be entirely agnostic about whether we COULD build persons. That question is irrelevant, because even if we could, it would be moral catastrophe.
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2015/10/clon...
Clones should NOT be slaves
artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security
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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · Sep 7
I haven't read it (yet) but it sounds interesting! I think I will add it to the reading list of my ethics of LLMs/generative AI course. Thanks for the tip, Joanna!
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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · Sep 4
Great line up for our Digital Duplicates workshop at @NUS_CBmE, co-organised and co-sponsored with our friends at University of Bucharest, including Cristina and Voinea and Mihaela Constantinescu 😊
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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · Aug 29
Are you teaching or taking an ethics of technology course this fall? Whether or not you're using my *This is Technology Ethics* book, you might find this 10-episode podcast (w/ the same title as the book) by ‪@johndanaher.bsky.social‬ & me useful: technologyethicspod.wordpress.com #aiethics
Technology Ethics Podcast
A podcast-based introduction to the philosophy and ethics of technology
technologyethicspod.wordpress.com
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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · Aug 7
Thank you to our great Munich Center for Machine Learning (@munichcenterml.bsky.social) for featuring me in this research film! Lots of great films clips with my MCML colleagues are available on MCML's YouTube channel. #ai #aiethics #mcml #philosophy youtu.be/KUqiY8o1yng?...
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Munich Center for Machine Learning @munichcenterml.bsky.social · Aug 6
🎥 Who gets the credit, or the blame, when AI makes decisions? Sven Nyholm ( #LMU/ #MCML) reflects on how AI challenges our ideas of agency, credit, and blame — and why we need new ways of thinking about authorship, justice, and decision-making.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUqi...

#AI #Ethics
What is intelligence—and what kind of intelligence do we want in our future? With Prof. Sven Nyholm
YouTube video by MCML_Munich Center for Machine Learning
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Brittany Wong @brittanywong.huffpost.com · May 7
“As humans, we want to be seen and recognized by others. We care about what other people think about us,” said Sven Nyholm, a prof of the ethics of AI. “Other people have minds, whereas AI chatbots are mindless zombies”

My story today, on the limits of AI companions
www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-z...
Mark Zuckerberg Thinks AI 'Friends' Can Solve The Loneliness Crisis. Here's What AI Experts Think.
The tech billionaire also suggested there may be untapped potential in AI girlfriends and therapists.
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HammerHAI @hammerhai-eu.bsky.social · Jul 16
This Friday, July 18 at 11:00 AM (CEST), we are excited to be co-hosting a virtual talk with @hlrs-hpc.bsky.social featuring Prof. Dr. Sven Nyholm from LMU Munich on:

The Ethics of AI Agents: Advanced AI Assistants, the “Next Big Thing” in AI Ethics?

👉 Join us: www.hlrs.de/event/the-et...
HLRS High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart: The Ethics of AI Agents
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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · Jul 14
Thanks David and for your great contribution to the volume!