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PAIR is proud to announce its first three Visiting Fellows for 2025:

– Julian Hauser (Postdoc at the LOGOS research group of the University of Barcelona)

– Dena Shottenkirk (Professor at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York)

– Renée Ye (PhD at Ruhr Universität Bochum)

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Two new researchers have joined PAIR: Brandon Ashby and Hadeel Naeem.

Brandon Ashby joins PAIR from the University of York (Canada). His work on the grammar of consciousness and phenomenal structures fits perfectly to the DFG/AHRC project SENSOR, which focuses on philosophical issues of sensory e...Continue

{PAIR} is excited to announce an upcoming workshop on 'AI and Human Dignity', taking place from  October 31 – November 1, 2024, organized by Björn Lundgren (PAIR) and Nancy Abigail Nuñez Hernández (UNAM). Venue: {PAIR},Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61, 03.01, Erlangen, Germany. (A related event is organiz...Continue

Leonard Dung, who was a PAIR research fellow until September 2024, was awarded the 10.000 € Barbara-Wengeler-Prize. We cordially congratulate Leonard for this well-deserved recognition of his excellent work on AI and animal consciousness. (Leonard's win was announced during the PAIR-co-organised con...Continue

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Christian R de Weerd has had a paper accepted:

de Weerd, C. R. (forthcoming). A Credence-based Theory-heavy Approach to Non-human Consciousness. Synthese.

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Understanding Artificial Agency Leonard Dung Philosophical Quarterly. forthcoming.

Preserving the Normative Significance of Sentience Leonard Dung Journal of Consciousness Studies 31 (1): 8-30. 2024.Continue

https://www.thebsps.org/short-reads/is-the-free-energy-principle-for-real/

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 76, <doi.org/10.1086/720861>.Continue

PAIR research fellow Dr. Leonard Dung has published a new paper titled 'How to deal with risks of AI suffering‘ (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0020174X.2023.2238287?journalCode=sinq20). In this paper, published in the philosophy journal Inquiry, Dung argues that humans might soon creat...Continue