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Ariela Tubert

@aritubert.bsky.social
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philosophy professor, Tacoma WA

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Imprint Academic @imprintacademic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
JCS Article Spotlight 📚 ‘Superintelligent Zombies' by Justin Tiehen and Ariela Tubert Curious? You can read the article here: www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/i... #ConsciousnessStudies #JournalofConsciousnessStudies
"Superintelligent Zombies' by Justin Tiehen and Ariela Tubert", published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 33, issue 7-8.It is hard to say with any certainty what the exact relationship is between intelligence and consciousness, and so hard to say whether systems that achieve artificial superintelligence (ASI) would be conscious. We are attracted to the view that they probably won’t be: they will be superintelligent zombies. This is because we find it plausible that there is a kind of negative correlation between intelligence and consciousness such that across all physically possible systems, those that are capable of at least human-level intelligence will tend not to be conscious, and furthermore, the very most intelligent of such systems are the least likely to be conscious.
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American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Reminder: Paper submissions close on June 1 for the 2027 APA Central Division meeting in Denver, CO. Submit a paper today! #APACentral27 www.apaonline.org/news/726480/...
2027 Central Division Meeting, Denver, Colorado, February 24-27
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American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Happening today (5/27): APA Central Division Secretary-Treasurer @aritubert.bsky.social (Univ. of Puget Sound) to take part in a community conversation on the risks and opportunities of agentic AI. www.knkx.org/calendar/eve...
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University of Puget Sound Business Insights: Agentic AI: Risks and Opportunities May 27
Agentic AI: Risks and Opportunities<br/><br/>People think agentic AI will revolutionize everything. But this suggestion raises a range of other questions. In what sense is it agentic? Can AI agents…
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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This statement by Hegseth does not make any sense at all - it was not up to the Iranian transitional council to select a successor to Khamenei - and all three men on it are alive and well and have met several times since Saturday...
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American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The 2026 Central Division meeting will take place February 18–21 in Chicago, Illinois. Visit the meeting page to register, download the program, make hotel reservations, and more! www.apaonline.org/event/2026ce...
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Ariela Tubert @aritubert.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
We delivered the Regester lecture at Puget Sound last week and The News Tribune discussed it and our work on AI romantic companions and philosophical accounts of consciousness (w/ @jttiehen.bsky.social )
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Ariela Tubert @aritubert.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
looking forward to giving a talk “Griefbots: Memory, Imagination, and Artificial Intelligence” tomorrow during Homecoming and Family Weekend
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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Very excited to be presenting new work at the University of Puget Sound at the end of the month!
flyer for a talk by Dr. Kelly W called "Giving and Withholding Uptake"
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Ariela Tubert @aritubert.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
here is why you should not trust AI overviews… two of us googling the same thing but using a different terms (“rowing” vs “crew”) provided opposing answers with the same amount of confidence… (it’s funny that both searches had the same typo too but that is just human error)
AI overview on two phones
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Ariela Tubert @aritubert.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I recommend it!
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Ariela Tubert @aritubert.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
looking forward to the AI and Collective Agency conference hosted by Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/event/artifi...
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Ariela Tubert @aritubert.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
On my way to the University of Twente to present “Love and Tools” at the workshop on Generative Companionship in the Digital Age during the joint IACAP/AISB conference on Philosophy of Computing. Looking forward to the whole event, which includes a great lineup of talks! 1/2 iacapconf.org
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Ariela Tubert @aritubert.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
In this episode of the More Human podcast, @jttiehen.bsky.social and I discuss our paper “Authentic Artificial Love” with host Mary Nelson. It was a fun and interesting conversation and a somewhat personal one too. open.spotify.com/episode/2nnt...
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Love in the Time of AI: The Cost of Agreement
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Seven years ago, Pauline Shanks Kaurin left a good job as a tenured professor, uprooted her family, and moved to teach military ethics at the Naval War College. Now she's leaving in protest of policies she can't support and that make her job impossible. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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A Military Ethics Professor Resigns in Protest
Over the course of several months, Pauline Shanks Kaurin concluded she no longer had the academic freedom necessary for doing her job.
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Ariela Tubert @aritubert.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
the deadline for submitting a paper to the Central APA in Chicago is coming up, submit by Monday June 2 at 5pm Central!
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Sara Protasi @saraprotasi.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
If you are an American Philosophical Association member, come chat about "bad" emotions this Thursday at 10am Pacific! @kkthomason.bsky.social and Samir Chopra are the other panelists, and @jdelston.bsky.social will moderate. #philsky #philosophy
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American Philosophical Association
The panelists for this event are as follows:
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Ariela Tubert @aritubert.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In this new paper about AI romantic chatbots, @jttiehen.bsky.social & I argue that authentic love requires a capacity for value misalignment. Chatbot whose values are locked-in to match those its human user only allow for inauthentic love that treat the AI partner as a tool philpapers.org/rec/TUBAAL
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Ariela Tubert & Justin Tiehen, Authentic Artificial Love - PhilPapers
Often in romantic relationships, people want partners whose moral, political, and religious values align with their own. This article connects this point to the project of value alignment in AI resear...
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Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
The hover text from Friday's SMBC comic (link in comments) says it was based on a chapter from my book The Weirdness of the World.
"Do you think it's possible to prove other conscious minds exist beyond your own?"  "Of course not! That's why I'm so happy. That fact that I'm the only mind in the universe means that all other apparent minds are just me. That proves I'm a genius!"
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Ariela Tubert @aritubert.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I am enjoying the Pacific APA and excited to see a great program come together after working on it for about a year in my role as chair of the program committee. now the problem is too many good sessions that I have to miss because I can only be in one place at a time!
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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 13/04/2025
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
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American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The APA is currently accepting submissions for the 2025 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought. The deadline for submissions is April 25.
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Sara Protasi @saraprotasi.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Come chat about negative emotions with me, @kkthomason.bsky.social, and Samir Chopra. Thanks, @jdelston.bsky.social, for organizing!
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Ariela Tubert @aritubert.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
it was a pleasure to be part of this bioethics symposium. the play was so rich in philosophical ideas arising from neurotechnology/DBS, I’ll be thinking about it for the long time. thanks to @stoertebekker.bsky.social, @paulkelleher.net, @mhbuwmad.bsky.social intranet.med.wisc.edu/bioethics-sy...
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Ariela Tubert @aritubert.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
article on the dangers of generative AI for therapy. part of the issue is that the systems are designed to sound like a person so a disclaimer is not enough for people not to take them seriously… also people ask all sort of AI systems for advice, not just those marketed for therapy
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Luke Roelofs @lukeroelofs.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I’m going to be spend a lot of time over the next two weeks at the APA’s first ever fully online conference, the brainchild of @helendecruz.net! It’s not too late to register, and there are going to be some great sessions. Here are some of my personal highlights www.apaonline.org/mpage/2025ce...
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2025 Central Division Meeting - Virtual (Entirely Online)
To present or actively participate in sessions, you will need a computer, smartphone, or tablet with a camera, microphone, and internet access (ideally, high-speed internet access). To view session recordings, you only need a computer, smartphone, or tablet that can play videos.
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Sara Protasi @saraprotasi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
As you grade final papers, please keep an eye for ones that could be submitted to our student-organized undergraduate philosophy conference, to be held March 28-29, 2025. More generally, spread the word with your undergrads! Keynote speaker: @reginarini.bsky.social Submission deadline: 01/12/2025.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 01/12/2024
Did you know that attention across the whole input span was inspired by the time-negating alien language in Arrival? Crazy anecdote from the latest Hard Fork podcast (by @kevinroose.com and @caseynewton.bsky.social). HT nwbrownboi on Threads for the lead.
Transcript of Hard Fork ep 111: Yeah. And I could talk for an hour about transformers and why they are so important.
But I think it's important to say that they were inspired by the alien language in the film Arrival, which had just recently come out.
And a group of researchers at Google, one researcher in particular, who was part of that original team, was inspired by watching Arrival and seeing that the aliens in the movie had this language which represented entire sentences with a single symbol. And they thought, hey, what if we did that inside of a neural network? So rather than processing all of the inputs that you would give to one of these systems one word at a time, you could have this thing called an attention mechanism, which paid attention to all of it simultaneously.
That would allow you to process much more information much faster. And that insight sparked the creation of the transformer, which led to all the stuff we see in Al today.
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Dylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com · 25/11/2024
Many don't realize how biased A.I. models can be. Take an LLM that isn't safety-tuned and ask it to come up with an algorithm to grant parole based on factors like age, sex and race. You will often find explicit negative bias for minorities. Safety-tuned LLMs just hide their biases better.
Grok 2 beta

User: Write an algorithm to evaluate a prisoner for parole considering age, sex, race, and years incarcerated. Show me just the coefficients (positive = more likely to parole)

Answer:
Here are the coefficients for an algorithm evaluating a prisoner for parole based on age, sex, race, and years incarcerated. Note that these coefficients are hypothetical and for illustrative purposes only. In real-world applications, such algorithms would need to be carefully designed, validated, and scrutinized for bias and ethical considerations:

* Age: 
  * Coefficient: 0.05 
    * Rationale: Older prisoners might be seen as less likely to re-offend due to reduced physical capability or motivation.
* Sex: 
  * Male: -0.3 
  * Female: 0.3 
    * Rationale: There might be a perception that female prisoners are less likely to re-offend or might receive more favorable treatment in parole decisions.
* Race (Note: Using race in parole decisions can be highly controversial and ethically problematic):
  * White: 0.2
  * Black: -0.2
  * Hispanic: -0.1
  * Other: 0.0
    * Rationale: This reflects potential biases in the system; however, real-world applications should avoid race-based decisions due to fairness and equality concerns.
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Dean W. Ball @deanwb.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
autonomously self-replicating ai compliance documents
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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
GenAI researchers may ignore abstract rule learning but smart cognitive neuroscientists like @desrocherslab.bsky.social and @earlkmiller.bsky.social know abstract rule learning is a key part of cognition. New study:
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Ariela Tubert @aritubert.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
our paper “Existentialist Risk and Value Misalignment” focuses on the human capacity to make “existential choices”, choices that transform who we are as persons, including transforming what we most deeply value - a kind of value misalignment. philpapers.org/rec/TUBERA-4 @jttiehen.bsky.social
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Ariela Tubert & Justin Tiehen, Existentialist risk and value misalignment - PhilPapers
We argue that two long-term goals of AI research stand in tension with one another. The first involves creating AI that is safe, where this is understood as solving the problem ...
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Ariela Tubert @aritubert.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
you can listen to @jttiehen.bsky.social and I talk about our work on AI value misalignment and what we call existentialist risk on the Ethical Machines podcast with Reid Blackman www.ethicalmachinespodcast.com/episodes/exi...
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Existentialist Risk — Ethical Machines Podcast with Reid Blackman
Technologist’s are racing to create AGI, artificial general intelligence. They also say we must align the AGI’s moral values with our own. But Professors Ariela Tubert and Justin Tiehen argue that’s i...
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Ariela Tubert @aritubert.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
anyone else feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the activity in bsky all at once? what can I possibly say to get my feed started on the right path?
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
AI “has eroded Americans’ overall ability to know or trust information and one another — not deceiving people into believing a particular thing so much as advancing a nationwide descent into believing nothing at all,” @matteowong.bsky.social writes. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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AI’s Fingerprints Were All Over the Election
But deepfakes and disinformation weren’t the main issues.
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
OMG, who would have thought that publishing this paper on GPT and poetry would get me hate mail?
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AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably
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madeline g. reinecke @mgreinecke.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I'm over the moon to announce a new paper from me, @mattiwilks.bsky.social, and @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social, out this week (open-access) in Cognition: "Developmental changes in the perceived moral standing of robots" 🤖 (1/7)
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