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Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Generative AI and the Future of Equality Norms

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The Romans in their Decadence - by Thomas Couture I have a new paper in a special edition of the journal Cognition . It's about generat...
Monday, July 15, 2024

The Ethics of Personalised Digital Duplicates: A Minimally Viable Permissibility Principle

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It's now possible, with the right set of training data, for anyone to create a digital copy of anyone. Some people have already done thi...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Mind the Anticipatory Gap: Genome Editing, Value Change and Governance

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I was recently a co-author on a paper about anticipatory governance and genome editing . The lead author was Jon Rueda, and the others were ...
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Tuesday, July 2, 2024

The Structure of Academic Writing: Lessons from John McPhee

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In the world of literary non-fiction, John McPhee is a god. Through his New Yorker essays, and prize-winning books McPhee has mastered the a...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Automation, Utopia and Everything In Between

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I've been quiet for a while. I know. But here's something to fill the gap: an interview I did for the Network Capital Podcast hoste...
Friday, January 26, 2024

Do Counterfeit Digital People Threaten the Cognitive Elite?

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In May 2023, the well-known philosopher Daniel Dennett wrote an op-ed for The Atlantic decrying the creation of counterfeit digital people....
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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Technology and the Dematerialisation of Sex

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The 'sex scene' from Demolition Man ( This article was originally commissioned for the Wired Ideas column, but due to delays on my ...
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