Publications & Media
A) Academic Publications
Journal
We publish the journal Philosophy of AI – editors: Guido Löhr, Vincent C. Müller. Editorial assistant: Eleonora Catena.
Forthcoming
- Dewey, A. R. (forthcoming). Anatomy’s role in mechanistic explanations of organism behaviour. Synthese.
- de Weerd, C. R. (forthcoming). A Credence-based Theory-heavy Approach to Non-human Consciousness. Synthese.
- Dung, L. (forthcoming). Evaluating approaches for reducing catastrophic risks from AI. AI and Ethics.
- Dung, L. (forthcoming). Is superintelligence necessarily moral? Analysis.
- Dung, L. (forthcoming). The argument for near-term human disempowerment through AI. AI & Society.
- Dung, L., & Balg, D. (forthcoming). Right in the feels: Academic philosophy, disappointed students and the big questions of life. Teaching Philosophy.
- Kirchhoff, M., Kiverstein, J. and Robertson, I. (forthcoming): The Literalist Fallacy and the Free Energy Principle: Model-Building, Scientific Realism, and Instrumentalism, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 76
<doi.org/10.1086/720861> - Lundgren, B. (forthcoming). Indisruptable or stable concepts: Can we design concepts that can avoid conceptual disruption, normative critique, and counterexamples? Ethics and Information Technology.
- Robertson, I. (forthcoming). In Defence of Enactive Imagination. Thought.
- Robertson, I. (under contract). AI and Expertise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2024
- Dewey, A. R. (2024). Balancing the evidential scale for the mental unconscious [commentary]. Philosophical Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2316837
- Dung, L. (2024). Understanding artificial agency. The Philosophical Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqae010
- Dung, L. (2024). Preserving the normative significance of sentience. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 31(1–2), 8–30. https://doi.org/10.53765/20512201.31.1.008
- Lundgren, B. (2024). Is a Moral Right to Privacy Limited by Agents’ Lack of Epistemic Control? Logos & Episteme 15(1): 83-87.
- Lundgren, B. (2024). A new standard for accident simulations for self-driving vehicles: Can we use Waymo’s results from accident simulations? AI & Society39: 669–673. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-022-01495-y
- Porter, Ronald D./Shen, Minquian/Fabrigar, Leandre R./Seaboyer, Anthony (2024): Assessing Influence in Target Audiences that Won’t Say or Don’t Know How Much They Have Been Influenced. In: Éric Ouellet (Ed): Deterrence in the 21st Century: Statecraft in the information environment, University of Calgary Press, 36p.
https://ucp.manifoldapp.org/read/deterrence-in-the-21st-century/section/097612c2-2005-4d56-b195-f2e418377755#_idParaDest-26 - Repantis, D., Koslowski, M. & Fink, S.B. Ethische Aspekte der Therapie mit Psychedelika. Psychotherapie 69, 115–121 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00278-024-00710-z
- Seaboyer, Anthony/Jolicoeur, Pierre (2024): L’intelligence artificielle russe comme outil de désinformation et de déception en Ukraine. In: Frédéric Côté et André Simonyi (Ed), Le Canada à l’aune du conflit en Ukraine, Québec. University of Laval Press. Link.
- Seaboyer, Anthony/Jolicoeur, Pierre (2024): The Evolution of China’s Information Exploitation of COVID-19. In: Éric Ouellet (Ed): Deterrence in the 21st Century: Statecraft in the information environment, University of Calgary Press, 28p. Link.
2023
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Dung, L. (2023). Tests of animal consciousness are tests of machine consciousness. Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-023-00753-9
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Dung, L. (2023). Current cases of AI misalignment and their implications for future risks. Synthese, 202(5), 138. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04367-0
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Dung, L. (2023). How to deal with risks of AI suffering. Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2023.2238287
- Hopster, J., Brey, P., Klenk, M., Löhr, G., Marchiori, S., Lundgren, B., Scharp, K. (2023). Conceptual Disruption and the Ethics of Technology. In van de Poel, I. et al. (eds.) Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies: An Introduction. Open Book Publishers, pp. 141–162.
- Lundgren, B. and Stefánsson, H. O. (2023). Can the normic de minimis decision theory save the de minimis principle? Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-023-00751-x
- Lundgren, B. (2023). Ethical requirements for digital systems for contact tracing in pandemics: a solution to the contextual limits of ethical guidelines. In Macnish, K., Henschke, A. (eds.) The Ethics of Surveillance in Times of Emergency. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 169–185.
- Lundgren, B. (2023). Should we allow for the possibility of unexercised abilities? A new route to rejecting the poss-ability principle. Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2023.2250390.
- Lundgren, B. (2023). Is lack of literature engagement a reason for rejecting a paper in philosophy? Res Publica. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-023-09632-0
- Lundgren, B. (2023). Two notes on Axiological Futurism: The importance of disagreement and methodological implications for value theory. Futures 147, 103120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2023.103120.
- Lundgren, B. (2023). In defense of ethical guidelines. AI & Ethics 3: 1013–1020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-022-00244-7.
- Lundgren, B.(2023). An unrealistic and undesirable alternative to the right to be forgotten. Telecommunications Policy 47(1): 102446. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102446.
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Robertson, I. (2023) The unbearable rightness of seeing? Conceptualism, enactivism, and skilled engagement. Synthese 202, 173 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04385-y
B) Media Publications and Reports
2024
- Ian Robertson “‘Self-love’ might seem selfish. But done right, it’s the opposite of narcissism”, The Conversation 11.02.2024, https://theconversation.com/self-love-might-seem-selfish-but-done-right-its-the-opposite-of-narcissism-205938
- “Is the free energy principle for real?“, BJPS Article, Ian Robertson, Julian Kiverstein & Michael Kirchhoff, 07.02.2024.
- Burton, Charles/Seaboyer, Anthony (2024): We need to stop China from buying influence in Canada. Here’s how our laws need to change right now. The Toronto Star. March 20, 2024.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/we-need-to-stop-china-from-buying-influence-in-canada-heres-how-our-laws-need/article_0b1a6710-e54c-11ee-8254-0f4ef6ff58cb.html - Burton, Charles/Seaboyer, Anthony (2024): China’s meddling in Taiwan is an alarming warning for Canada. The Toronto Star. January 8, 2024.https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/chinas-meddling-in-taiwan-is-an-alarming-warning-for-canada/article_e48b66ba-abf0-11ee-bf98-47971997da48.html
- Seaboyer, Anthony – February 29, 2024 expert witness testimony on China’s AI-enabled interference and influence campaigns to the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Commerce and the Economy (BANC): https://senparlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2?fk=631134&globalStreamId=3
- Seaboyer, Anthony – March 22, 2024 debate of my testimony on China’s AI based data exploitation by the Senators in the Senate (click on [read more] to see the sections related to my PhD research highlighted): https://sencanada.ca/en/search-intervention?df=1637557200000&dt=1713628800000&id=true&ie=true&k=Seaboyer&pn=0&ps=5
- Seaboyer, Anthony – April 15, 2024 expert witness testimony on Russia’s AI-enabled interference and influence campaigns in Russia, Ukraine, Europe and North America to the Standing Senate Committee on National Security, Defence and Veterans Affairs (SECD): https://senparlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2?fk=635443&globalStreamId=3
2023
- KI-Empfehlungen für die Bundesregierung, 06.10.2023
- Podcast KI-Bewusstsein “#16 Wir sollten Technik schaffen, die rückholbar ist. Im Gespräch mit Vincent C. Müller.” 03.10.2023
- Die Tagespost, Der allmächtige Algorithmus in der Maschine, 17.09.2023
- ARD, “Titel, Thesen, Temperamente”, Video: Schwerpunkt KI, 23.07.23
- Tagesspiegel Background, Als Pionier der KI-Ethik will Vincent C. Müller ethische Fragen bei der Entwicklung und dem Einsatz von Künstlicher Intelligenz stärken, 11.05.2023
- FAU News, “Alexander-von-Humboldt-Professur im Namen der humanen KI: Offizielle Verleihung für Prof. Dr. Vincent Müller”, 11.05.2023
- Vincent C. Müller: “Über unsere Angst vor den neuen Maschinen.“, Neue Zürcher Zeitung 28.04.2023
- DW, “Künstliche Intelligenz führt zu einem Kulturbruch“, 16.04.2023
- FAZ Podcast, “Historisch wichtiger Punkt“: Muss die KI-Entwicklung gestoppt werden?“, 14.04.2023
- New Research Fellows! Aliya Dewey is joining us from U Arizona (https://aliyadewey.com) & Leonard Dung is joining us from RU Bochum (https://philpeople.org/profiles/leonard-dung/) (02/2023)
2022
- AvH Video out about Vincent’s work [English/German (1:20)] (6 mins.) (12/2022)
- New book out: Müller, Vincent C. (ed.), (2022), Philosophy and theory of artificial intelligence 2021 (SAPERE, Berlin: Springer). (11/2022)
- FAU Journal “Alexander”: Die Philosophie der künstlichen Intelligenz (11/2022)
- DailyNous “Multi-Million Euro Award for Philosopher of Artificial Intelligence” (12/2021)
- FAU Pressemitteilung: Neue Humboldt-Professur an der Fakultät: Prof. Dr. Vincent C. Müller – Für seine Forschung zu einer menschlicheren KI erhält Prof. Dr. Vincent C. Müller den höchstdotierten internationalen Forschungspreis Deutschlands (11/2021)