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The Critical AI Centre @craicexeter.bsky.social · 1d

It's been a great first day at the CrAIC launch workshop! 🌟

Two panels, nine speakers, lots of good discussion

You can still sign up for our hybrid roundtable, tomorrow 2pm-3pm BST 👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-critic...

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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 6d

Philosophers of emotion, the call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Hosted at Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Southern Germany by our lovely president Imke von Maur on 24-26 June 2026 💕

#philsky

European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions @epsse.bsky.social · 6d

PSA 🔈Our call for abstracts for EPSSE 2026 is now open! Our 2026 annual conference will be hosted in Germany by Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on 24-26 June 2026 💫

Deadline for abstracts on all things philosophy of emotions: 1 December 2025

www.epsse.org/call-for-abs...

Call for Abstracts | EPSSE

www.epsse.org

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British Society of Aesthetics @britaesthetics.bsky.social · 9d

The British Society of Aesthetics seeks to appoint a paid, part-time Editor for its website, newsletter, and social media. Applicants will be expected to be UK-based postgraduates working in aesthetics.

The deadline for applications is 22 October 2025.

Position Available: BSA Website & Social Media Editor - The British Society of Aesthetics

The British Society of Aesthetics seeks to appoint a paid, part-time Editor for its website, newsletter, and social media. DUTIES OF POST WEBSITEThe Editor will be responsible for editing and maintain...

british-aesthetics.org

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Pilar Lopez-Cantero @lopezcantero.bsky.social · 11d

Some academic conferences are treasurable spaces to meet new people, get together with old friends and share research with keen students—and this was one of those. Thanks @bexmillar.bsky.social, @lucyosler.bsky.social and staff and students at @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social! (It was not sad at all)

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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 11d

Loved every second! more soon pls ❤️

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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 12d

B&W photo of Pilar Lopez-Cantero presenting

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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 12d

Absolute peak academia at our sad philosophy workshop! The cosiest and kindest contemplation of exbots & heartbreak, grief & negative relations, and AI psychosis that you could wish for. Thanks @bexmillar.bsky.social, @lopezcantero.bsky.social & our lovely participants 🖤

hope we can do a part 2 👀

B&W photo of Pilar Lopez-Cantero presenting, with Becky Millar

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Becky Millar @bexmillar.bsky.social · 12d

This is today! Please do come along if you're in Cardiff.

Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 23d

#philsky

A Sad Philosophy Workshop

GRIEF, HEARTBREAK, & HALLUCINATIONS

Pilar Lopez-Cantero (Antwerp)
Becky Millar (Cardiff)
Lucy Osler (Exeter)

13:30-17:30, Friday 26 September

1.57 John Percival Building
Cardiff University

Free! All welcome!

Register here: bit.ly/CdfGHH#philsky

Poster has image of a tearful cyborg woman and the same text as in this post.

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Siân Round @sianround.bsky.social · 14d

Announcing New Welsh Voices in English Literature - a new research series at Swansea!

I wanted to devote some of my @leverhulme.ac.uk trust fellowship to promoting work by other ECRs in Wales.

I'm really looking forward to these two talks this semester, with Bridget Bartlett and Beth Pyner.

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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 19d

I explore these ideas and more in my preprint, “Hallucinating with AI: AI psychosis and distributed delusions”, where I argue that we need to move beyond thinking about AI “hallucinating at us” to understanding how we “hallucinate with AI”

#philsky

arxiv.org/abs/2508.19588

Hallucinating with AI: AI Psychosis as Distributed Delusions

There is much discussion of the false outputs that generative AI systems such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok create. In popular terminology, these have been dubbed AI hallucinations. H...

arxiv.org

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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks to Robert Hart for taking the time to chat to me about AI psychosis!

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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 19d

Chatbots are explicitly being designed “to elicit intimacy and emotional engagement in order to increase our trust in and dependency on them” (me in Wired magazine 🤭). This designed intimacy combined with AI sycophancy creates serious risks for delusional thinking

www.wired.com/story/ai-psy...

AI Psychosis Is Rarely Psychosis at All

A wave of AI users presenting in states of psychological distress gave birth to an unofficial diagnostic label. Experts say it’s neither accurate nor needed, but concede that it’s likely to stay.

www.wired.com

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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks to Cardiff for funding our Sad Philosophy Workshop next week with me, @lopezcantero.bsky.social and @bexmillar.bsky.social

We’ll be in the melancholy domains of grief and negative relationships, heartbreak and chatbots, and ai psychosis 🖤 🖤🖤

Cardiff Philosophy @cardiffphilosophy.bsky.social · 23d

#philsky

A Sad Philosophy Workshop

GRIEF, HEARTBREAK, & HALLUCINATIONS

Pilar Lopez-Cantero (Antwerp)
Becky Millar (Cardiff)
Lucy Osler (Exeter)

13:30-17:30, Friday 26 September

1.57 John Percival Building
Cardiff University

Free! All welcome!

Register here: bit.ly/CdfGHH#philsky

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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · 23d

Kicking off the third AI and Orientation seminar with the wonderful Chris Durt today 😍 really looking forward to having an international and interdisciplinary nerd out each week www.orientation-philosophy.com/seminars/art...

Artificial Intelligence and Human Orientation

www.orientation-philosophy.com

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Lucy Osler @lucyosler.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks so much, Dan!

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