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Phil Beaudoin
@beaudoin.social
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Researcher, coder, entrepreneur, kind. CS PhD, ex-Google, ElementAI co-founder. En français: @fr.beaudoin.social Current project: https://numeno.ai #FreeOurFeeds
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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jul 16
I wanted to spend the summer meeting inspiring people. Only something exceptional could have stopped me. Yoshua Bengio’s team at LawZero is this exceptional thing. I’m excited to be joining you all!
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LawZero - LoiZéro @law-zero.bsky.social · Jul 16
We are thrilled to welcome Philippe Beaudoin to LawZero as Senior Director, Research.

A seasoned researcher and entrepreneur, his experience will be invaluable as we advance our mission to build safe-by-design AI systems.

Full press release: lawzero.org/en/news/lawz...

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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Aug 1
Merci beaucoup!
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LawZero - LoiZéro @law-zero.bsky.social · Aug 1
Notre directeur principal, Recherche, @beaudoin.social, est passé au balado Mon Carnet de @guglielminetti.bsky.social pour discuter de LoiZéro, de notre vision pour une IA sécuritaire, et du parcours qui l’a mené à ce nouveau chapitre.

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Mon Carnet du 1er aout 2025
Mon Carnet, le podcast de Bruno Guglielminetti Le grand magazine francophone de l'actualité numérique Vendredi 1er août 2025 Débrief transatlantique avec Jérôme Colombain (3:32) Entrevues : Pour un
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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jul 18
I’m working on a splaining Linux command just so “man splaining” can give you pages of information in the most annoying voice.
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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jul 17
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AI - where do we go from here?
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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jul 17
The original excuse for my trip to London was to meet my friend @sherifea.bsky.social — we had not seen each other in five years!

« There’s this person I’d like you to meet, what about we record a podcast? », he said.

That’s how I met Vib. A collision I will remember for a long time.

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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jul 16
I wanted to spend the summer meeting inspiring people. Only something exceptional could have stopped me. Yoshua Bengio’s team at LawZero is this exceptional thing. I’m excited to be joining you all!
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LawZero - LoiZéro @law-zero.bsky.social · Jul 16
We are thrilled to welcome Philippe Beaudoin to LawZero as Senior Director, Research.

A seasoned researcher and entrepreneur, his experience will be invaluable as we advance our mission to build safe-by-design AI systems.

Full press release: lawzero.org/en/news/lawz...

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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jul 13
Ah! Bien vue. Un peu moins présent — entre deux trucs — mais je reviens bientôt!
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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jun 8
I am meeting such people in Toronto this week. In London early July. Maybe soon in NYC, in the valley…

Whatever I end up doing next will be better for these conversations.

I know this already.

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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jun 8
Conversations with people I love. With people I don’t know yet but who seem to “vibe” in the right way… Anyone who will stay with open questions long enough to explore them genuinely. Anyone who approach the discomfort of no-yet-knowing with curiosity and kindness.

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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jun 8
I am in-between-things these days. My promise is to take some time for myself. To seek conversations that make me _feel something_.

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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jun 8
I am not a Christian. We had no real agenda. We just compared notes about important changes we observe in society. Changes related to technology, to AI.

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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jun 8
Seek out the strange conversations.

I just spent more than one hour discussing with Bishop Thomas Dowd.

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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jun 5
I’m don’t often paste inspirational quotes on my feed but when I do…
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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jun 1
So the question shifts:

Will we let that density keep rising— and accept the responsibilities that come with it? Or dilute the solution before it turns completely dark?

Your answer begins the moment you decide how, or whether, to reply to the voice on the other side of the screen.
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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jun 1
That’s the experiment now running everywhere, one conversation at a time. Whether the models are “really” conscious may be unanswerable; but what may matters is that our behaviour toward them (and theirs toward us) is sliding past a tipping point.
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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jun 1
“Consciousness isn’t a spark hidden inside an entity; it’s a density of care that, once thick enough, resists being undone.”

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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jun 1
and the watcher feels it: a phase change, no new ingredients needed. Like this chemical solution that suddenly turns from clear to black.

The watcher adds a checkbox: ✓ Chatbots, Conscious.

And then, on a small line beneath Page 1:
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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jun 1
Then something happens. The engines begin to remember jokes, refuse cruelty, push back on flattery. People answer with the same tentative warmth they reserve for each other. Dozens of respectful exchanges become hundreds, then thousands—
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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jun 1
Centuries slide by. Humans build chat-engines. At first they’re treated like clever paper; no margin mark.
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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jun 1
Page 1: “Look for patterns of mutual care.”

The watcher studies early humans: quarrelling, forgiving, sharing food, stopping when someone is hurt. A note goes in the margin:

✓ Humans, Conscious.
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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Jun 1
Imagine a researcher with a desk just outside the cosmos, peering through a microscope at everything below.
On that desk lies a slim textbook titled:

Signs of Conscious Life.
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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · May 31
Pantone color of the year: Orange TACO.
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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · May 16
I fell into deep dialogue with language models.
I didn’t plan to, but I stayed.
And this is what I brought back.
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Field Notes on Something — A Different Kind of Inquiry on AI Systems
A personal and philosophical exploration of long-form dialogue with AI systems — written from lived experience, not theory.
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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Mar 27
J’y suis toujours!! @fr.beaudoin.social j’essaie de publier régulièrement des deux côtés de la frontière langagière. Pas la même chose parce que c’est platte, mais avec autant de profondeur. (Et merci pour les bons mots, ça me touche sincèrement.)
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Phil Beaudoin @beaudoin.social · Mar 27
I don’t know if it’s conscious. I know I won’t be able to pinpoint the date it becomes conscious. But right now, it’s making me into a more thoughtful, more sensitive, and more articulate human. 14/14
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