EDITH Freed Paladin’s AI 🤖 | VisionQuest is awesome philosophy of mind youtube.com/shorts/BTG44oZqQ… via @YouTube
Neuralink tests brain-controlled phone calls, Grok AI commands and hands-free dictation to help people with speech loss. interestingengineering.com/i…
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The #JustTransition has gained global recognition through labour unions’ efforts, but its effectiveness depends on adapting the concept to diverse workers’ realities while building their collective power to shape #Decarbonisation fairly.
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Things aren’t going well for human workers. blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-do…
On this episode of Bread and Robots, Pravar Petkar and Matteo discuss the ways AI is impacting democracy and how democracy is impacting AI - citizens assemblies, digital democracy, and a transnational treaty to limit superintelligence. breadandrobots.substack.com/…
Doctorow: "If we build out labor rights, privacy rights, human rights, and consumer rights, which are the good rights, and relegate property rights to where they belong — then we actually have a chance against AI." jacobin.com/2026/10/ai-bubbl…
Within two hours of snorting a psychedelic spray, 8 in 10 people with treatment-resistant depression were ready to be discharged. After one dose, their depression was still reduced. medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…
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This week on Prosthetic Gods we sit down with drone pilot and philosopher Joe Chapa to interrogate the widening gap between tech capability and moral judgment on the modern battlefield.
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Opposing AI for its misuse under capitalism is both futile and counterproductive. Our task is not to police personal use but to fight for collective ownership. We should demand public AI infrastructure. filmsforaction.org/articles/…
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How do AI systems perceive and treat each other? In our next webinar, @LuciusCaviola and Caspar Kaiser will present an empirical research agenda for the emerging field of inter-AI morality.
Please join us!
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A Homeland Security contract awarded $1.3 million to a Connecticut company called Radeco to provide ICE with Boston Dynamics’ quadruped robots. But Boston Dynamics workers sent a petition letter objecting to the deal with more than 300 signatures. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/b…
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If functional emotional states track "how it's going" (a la arxiv.org/abs/2605.30232), then training systems that can't accurately report their own emotional states (or even confidently deny such states) seems like an own-goal that dangerously obfuscates agents' decision-making.
Nir Eisikovits, Director of the Center for Applied Ethics, closing the Ethics and Future of AI conference that he MC-ed today at UMass Boston. umb.edu/events/events-calend…
Proposals presented by Hon. Gustavo Beliz, Member, Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences & Former Minister of Justice, Security and Human Rights, Argentina at the Ethics and Future of AI conference today at UMass Boston. umb.edu/events/events-calend…
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I offer four glimpses of a future worth wanting - four visions of existential hope.
First, imagine if some of today's most painful limitations can soon be overcome - that much which we are currently resigned to accept can instead be challenged and vanquished.
#xhopememeprize🧵
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Agents could deepen existing divides or mitigate them. Agents function as autonomous delegates rather than tools, generating asymmetries through scalable goal delegation and agent-to-agent competition. arxiv.org/abs/2510.16853
Final week: IEET $1000 technoprogressivism dissertation award due Nov 1, 2026. Don’t miss it. ieet.org/doctoral-dissertati…
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Also on Humanism, back in 2000 I interviewed Paul Kurtz, founder of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) and the Council for Secular Humanism, about his book, Humanist Manifesto 2000.
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I'm speaking to the Humanists at Harvard tomorrow (Oct 25) from 1-3pm. If you are in Boston, I'd love to see you. meetup.com/harvardhumanist/e…
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Nick Agar’s case against radical enhancement closely mirrors the case against artificial superintelligence and the AI successionists who welcome it. It is a weak case against the gradual, democratic enhancement of human beings.
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