Jocelyn Maclure
@jocelynmaclure.bsky.social
Philosophy Professor, Jarislowsky Chair in Human Nature & Technology, McGill University https://www.mcgill.ca/jarislowsky-chair/
Président, Commission de l’éthique en science et en technologie du Québec, 2017-2024
Président, Commission de l’éthique en science et en technologie du Québec, 2017-2024
Pinned
Overcoming online echo chambers requires institutional and individual commitment
Politics have always made it hard to accept facts and opinions that challenge our preexisting beliefs. Artificial intelligence algorithms make it even worse.
policyoptions.irpp.org
Op-ed in which I briefly explain why we shouldn’t worry about the migration from X to Bluesky even if we think of echo chambers as epistemically and democratically bad. @irpp.org @policyoptions.bsky.social
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Texte important et pertinent du collègue @jocelynmaclure.bsky.social dans la Presse aujourd'hui, au sujet du projet de constitution québécoise de la CAQ. www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...
Être à la hauteur de la politique constitutionnelle
La Constitution est la loi fondamentale d’un État. Elle énonce des principes et des modalités institutionnelles qui permettent d’établir quelle est la nature du régime politique. Dans une démocratie l...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Texte important et pertinent du collègue @jocelynmaclure.bsky.social dans la Presse aujourd'hui, au sujet du projet de constitution québécoise de la CAQ. www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...
A small hit of meth a day…
June 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A small hit of meth a day…
1ère journée de réflexion Horizons démocratiques le 30 mai à l’Université McGill. L’événement est le résultat d’une collaboration avec les collègues @patrickturmel.bsky.social et N. Hamrouni. Il y aura des présentations sur les chambres d’écho, la radicalisation et la pensée conspirationniste,
May 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
1ère journée de réflexion Horizons démocratiques le 30 mai à l’Université McGill. L’événement est le résultat d’une collaboration avec les collègues @patrickturmel.bsky.social et N. Hamrouni. Il y aura des présentations sur les chambres d’écho, la radicalisation et la pensée conspirationniste,
« But others had uncharitably interpreted his Nazi-seeming salutes as Nazi salutes: “They really are trying every angle to get me.” » www.ft.com/content/0c6e...
Elon Musk’s painful departure
The Tesla founder’s much-heralded war on government waste has had uncertain results
www.ft.com
May 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
« But others had uncharitably interpreted his Nazi-seeming salutes as Nazi salutes: “They really are trying every angle to get me.” » www.ft.com/content/0c6e...
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My paper, co-authored with Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, on how AI challenges traditional conceptions of discrimination is now published in The Journal of Ethics!
Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Neither Direct, Nor Indirect: Understanding Proxy-Based Algorithmic Discrimination - The Journal of Ethics
Discrimination is typically understood to be either direct or indirect. However, we argue that some cases that clearly are instances of discrimination are neither direct nor indirect. This is not just...
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May 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
My paper, co-authored with Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, on how AI challenges traditional conceptions of discrimination is now published in The Journal of Ethics!
Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Would you like to teach philosophy of science and technology in Vienna? #philosophy #STS
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Science and Technology
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Science and Technology
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April 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Would you like to teach philosophy of science and technology in Vienna? #philosophy #STS
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Our cover this week.
April 24, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Our cover this week.
Visionnement obligatoire. Présenter constamment les immigrants et les autres minorités comme des problèmes peut mener jusque là.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“What the Trump administration is doing is acting as a quasi judiciary. They’re rounding up people and effectively being judge, jury and executioner,” Asha Rangappa tells Ezra Klein.
“What the Trump administration is doing is acting as a quasi judiciary. They’re rounding up people and effectively being judge, jury and executioner,” Asha Rangappa tells Ezra Klein.
Opinion | The Emergency Is Here
Trump is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists. And he says he wants to send “homegrown” Americans there next.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Visionnement obligatoire. Présenter constamment les immigrants et les autres minorités comme des problèmes peut mener jusque là.
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"Où est donc passé l’esprit de solidarité ayant mené à l’accueil des réfugiés de l’Asie du Sud-Est il y a 50 ans ?"
Telle est la question posée par Rima Elkhouri dans La Presse, à laquelle Rémi Chhem et votre humble serviteur tentent de répondre.
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Telle est la question posée par Rima Elkhouri dans La Presse, à laquelle Rémi Chhem et votre humble serviteur tentent de répondre.
www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...
Accueil de migrants | À la recherche de la solidarité perdue
Où est donc passé l’esprit de solidarité ayant mené à l’accueil des réfugiés de l’Asie du Sud-Est il y a 50 ans ?
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April 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
"Où est donc passé l’esprit de solidarité ayant mené à l’accueil des réfugiés de l’Asie du Sud-Est il y a 50 ans ?"
Telle est la question posée par Rima Elkhouri dans La Presse, à laquelle Rémi Chhem et votre humble serviteur tentent de répondre.
www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...
Telle est la question posée par Rima Elkhouri dans La Presse, à laquelle Rémi Chhem et votre humble serviteur tentent de répondre.
www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...
Next week at McGill University: a truly interdisciplinary discussion on our future with AI, bringing together computer science, philosophy, geography and sociology. Open to all but registration required. With Joelle Pineau, Renee Sieber, Matissa Hollister and me.
April 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Next week at McGill University: a truly interdisciplinary discussion on our future with AI, bringing together computer science, philosophy, geography and sociology. Open to all but registration required. With Joelle Pineau, Renee Sieber, Matissa Hollister and me.
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📣The @UofT Centre for Ethics has a call for applications for a post-doctoral fellowship in on the topic of Algorithm Bias.
Please share 🙏
➡️ includes teaching opportunity and position is renewable up to 3 years
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@uoftethics.bsky.social
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Please share 🙏
➡️ includes teaching opportunity and position is renewable up to 3 years
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@uoftethics.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Fellowship In Algorithm Bias | Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
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March 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
📣The @UofT Centre for Ethics has a call for applications for a post-doctoral fellowship in on the topic of Algorithm Bias.
Please share 🙏
➡️ includes teaching opportunity and position is renewable up to 3 years
@ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
@uoftethics.bsky.social
ethics.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...
Please share 🙏
➡️ includes teaching opportunity and position is renewable up to 3 years
@ihpst-uoft.bsky.social
@uoftethics.bsky.social
ethics.utoronto.ca/postdoctoral...
Je ne suis pas un expert en matière de zombies, mais si j’ai bien compris les quelques épisodes de Walking Dead que j’ai écoutés, le zombie typique n’a pas d’esprit (“mind”); il ne peut donc pas être “fanatisé”. MBC doit faire preuve de plus de rigueur conceptuelle.
Mathieu Bock-Côté, à propos des groupes qui participent aux marches pour le droit des femmes en France
Mathieu Bock-Côté, à propos des groupes qui participent aux marches pour le droit des femmes en France
"Quand on voit ces gens-là, ce sont des hordes de zombies fanatisés."
www.tourniquet.quebec
March 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Je ne suis pas un expert en matière de zombies, mais si j’ai bien compris les quelques épisodes de Walking Dead que j’ai écoutés, le zombie typique n’a pas d’esprit (“mind”); il ne peut donc pas être “fanatisé”. MBC doit faire preuve de plus de rigueur conceptuelle.
Some solace:“Mr Trump still delights many hard-right European leaders. But for Ms Meloni and Ms Le Pen, the American president could become a serious headache. Europeans don’t like him: a tiny 6% of French and 8% of Italians told a poll in March that Mr Trump is “a friend of Europe”.(Same in Canada)
Trump is a problem for Europe’s most important hard-right leaders
His antics are causing headaches for Giorgia Meloni and Marine Le Pen
www.economist.com
March 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Some solace:“Mr Trump still delights many hard-right European leaders. But for Ms Meloni and Ms Le Pen, the American president could become a serious headache. Europeans don’t like him: a tiny 6% of French and 8% of Italians told a poll in March that Mr Trump is “a friend of Europe”.(Same in Canada)
Ce constat de @mfbazzo.bsky.social sur les effets de certains grands conglomérats médiatiques privés à travers le monde devrait être accepté par toutes les personnes sérieuses, par-delà les orientations politiques: “Bolloré applique exactement la même technique que Murdoch aux États-Unis…
March 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Ce constat de @mfbazzo.bsky.social sur les effets de certains grands conglomérats médiatiques privés à travers le monde devrait être accepté par toutes les personnes sérieuses, par-delà les orientations politiques: “Bolloré applique exactement la même technique que Murdoch aux États-Unis…
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How it started / how it's going.....
March 18, 2025 at 2:44 AM
How it started / how it's going.....
Rare privilège d'avoir eu près de 30 minutes pour discuter des risques de l'IA en compagnie de @sondervorst.bsky.social et @penelopemcquade.bsky.social
L’IA pourrait-elle mener à l’extinction de l’humanité?
Pénélope | L’intelligence artificielle a énormément évolué depuis que le ponte québécois de l’IA Yoshua Bengio et Jocelyn Maclure ont coécrit La déclaration de Montréal, qui encourageait un développem...
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March 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Rare privilège d'avoir eu près de 30 minutes pour discuter des risques de l'IA en compagnie de @sondervorst.bsky.social et @penelopemcquade.bsky.social
Delighted that this paper co-authored with A. Morin-Martel is out in Digital Society. Building in pre-AI work in applied ethics, political & legal philosophy, we argue in favor of a two-pronged institutionalist approach to the regulation of AI technologies.
March 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Delighted that this paper co-authored with A. Morin-Martel is out in Digital Society. Building in pre-AI work in applied ethics, political & legal philosophy, we argue in favor of a two-pronged institutionalist approach to the regulation of AI technologies.
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New article by RGCS faculty member Jocelyn Maclure @jocelynmaclure.bsky.social and Alexis Morin-Martel, previously presented at the RGCS WIP:
"AI Ethics’ Institutional Turn"
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"AI Ethics’ Institutional Turn"
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AI Ethics’ Institutional Turn
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March 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
New article by RGCS faculty member Jocelyn Maclure @jocelynmaclure.bsky.social and Alexis Morin-Martel, previously presented at the RGCS WIP:
"AI Ethics’ Institutional Turn"
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"AI Ethics’ Institutional Turn"
rdcu.be/edrKf
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A great workshop at MANCEPt this year organised by Gabriele Badano and @neufeld.bsky.social
A new fantastic Call for Abstracts: Theories of Public Reason (MANCEPT 2025). Deadline 14 May 2025
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Theories of Public Reason Panel at the MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory
THEORIES OF PUBLIC REASON
Panel at the 2025 MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, 3-5 September
This panel seeks to bring together those working on issues related to public reason, broadly con...
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March 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A great workshop at MANCEPt this year organised by Gabriele Badano and @neufeld.bsky.social
Next week at the Jarislowsky Chair in Human Nature and Technology: work-in-progress session on Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre's paper "Can AI Systems Hold Wrongful Beliefs? Doxastic Wrongs in Machine Reasoning".
March 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Next week at the Jarislowsky Chair in Human Nature and Technology: work-in-progress session on Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre's paper "Can AI Systems Hold Wrongful Beliefs? Doxastic Wrongs in Machine Reasoning".
Ce texte de @pauljournet.bsky.social est intéressant. La raison pratique ne s’épuise toutefois pas dans la rationalité instrumentale. www.lapresse.ca/internationa...
Intelligence, élites, progrès | Pourquoi Musk emmêle tout
Elon Musk est plusieurs choses à la fois. Homme le plus riche de la planète, mercenaire du président américain pour démanteler l’État et agent mondial de désinformation. Voici ce que cet électron féro...
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March 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Ce texte de @pauljournet.bsky.social est intéressant. La raison pratique ne s’épuise toutefois pas dans la rationalité instrumentale. www.lapresse.ca/internationa...
I finally listened to the latest E. Klein interview on AI. If you didn’t listen to it, don’t be fooled by the headline. There is 0 argument for the view that AGI is fast approaching. Unless we count ‘’many people working in AI are convinced that AGI is around the corner‘ as a weighty consideration.
The Government Knows AGI is Coming
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-03-04 · 1h 6m
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March 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I finally listened to the latest E. Klein interview on AI. If you didn’t listen to it, don’t be fooled by the headline. There is 0 argument for the view that AGI is fast approaching. Unless we count ‘’many people working in AI are convinced that AGI is around the corner‘ as a weighty consideration.
Should we worry about AI Welfare? Roundtable Discussion with Heather Alexander and Jonathan Simon on March 21. My own answer is no; my colleagues disagree.
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March 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Should we worry about AI Welfare? Roundtable Discussion with Heather Alexander and Jonathan Simon on March 21. My own answer is no; my colleagues disagree.
www.mcgill.ca/jarislowsky-...
www.mcgill.ca/jarislowsky-...
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Joe is a smart guy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...
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Opinion | Democrats Need Their Own Version of Project 2025 (Gift Article)
A call for a reform project that is ambitious, radical and iconoclastic yet grounded in a genuine desire to fix the problems of American governance.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Joe is a smart guy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...
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Trump did not end the Russian war of aggression in 24 hours.
But he brought most Europeans together in less than 48 hours.
But he brought most Europeans together in less than 48 hours.
March 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Trump did not end the Russian war of aggression in 24 hours.
But he brought most Europeans together in less than 48 hours.
But he brought most Europeans together in less than 48 hours.