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Benjamin Henke

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Philosopher of Cognitive Science and AI. @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social, and the Institute of Philosophy Associate Director @laihp.bsky.social While my opinions are my own, they’re also my gift to all of you.

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Benjamin Henke @handle.invalid · 19/02/2026
New in @nature.com: We must move beyond mimicry to assess AI for genuine moral competence. We propose a roadmap for the ‘facsimile problem’ that accounts for moral multidimensionality and pluralism—a path toward more responsible AI. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A roadmap for evaluating moral competence in large language models - Nature
This Perspective offers a roadmap for tackling the challenges of the facsimile problem, moral multidimensionality and moral pluralism in large language models.
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Murray Shanahan @mpshanahan.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Important work from @birchlse.bsky.social
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Benjamin Henke @handle.invalid · 28/08/2025
Can you REALLY tell the difference between AI-generated and human-written text? One of these texts was written by a human and another by a well-prompted chatbot. Which is which?:
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London AI and Humanity Project @laihp.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Next up in our ongoing AI Affect series: 👤 Tim Salomons (Queens Canada) 📢 "How do we judge others' pain?" 🗓️ TOMORROW April 15, 3-4:30 PM 📍 Join us in person or online! DM for details.
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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Announcement of Institute of Philosophy Conference on Responsible AI at the University of London on 19-20 May. Free and open to all philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Responsible AI
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Benjamin Henke @handle.invalid · 25/03/2025
But her emails
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Elise Woodard @elisewoodard.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Join us Friday for a bonus PPE tak! Sam Berstler (MIT) | "Conversing in the Dark: Off-Off Record Speech Acts and the Cooperative Creation of Uncertainty" 📆: Fri, March 28, 4:30-6 PM 📍: Senate House, Rm 349 Hope to see you there! philosophy.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Conversing in the Dark: Off-Off Record Speech Acts and the Cooperative Creation of Uncertainty | Sam Berstler (MIT)
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London AI and Humanity Project @laihp.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Next up in our ongoing AI Affect series: 👤 Rob Long (Eleos AI) 📢 "Taking AI Welfare Seriously" 🗓️ Tuesday, March 25, 3-4:30 PM 📍 Join us in person or online! DM for details.
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London AI and Humanity Project @laihp.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Next up in our ongoing AI Affect series: 👤 Tom Everitt (Google Deepmind) @tom4everitt.bsky.social 📢 "Agency as backwards causality" 🗓️ TODAY Tuesday, March 4, 3-4:30 PM 📍 Join us in person or online! DM for details.
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London AI and Humanity Project @laihp.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The deadline for applying to be an AI fellow at the LAIHP is this Sunday.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 14/02/2025
A cartoon by Amy Kurzweil. #NewYorkerCartoons
Two cartoon trolleys are talking while another trolley, called Kyle, is about to run people over behind them. One says, “I'm concerned about Kyle.” The title reads: “Problem Trolley.”
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 10/02/2025
It's a neat way to stumble upon interesting information randomly, learn new things, and spend spare moments of boredom without reaching for an algorithmically addictive social media app.
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Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction
WikiTok cures boredom in spare moments with wholesome swipe-up Wikipedia article discovery.
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London AI and Humanity Project @laihp.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
University College Dublin is hiring five year Ad Astra Fellows in the Philosophy of Technology/AI. Deadline: February 21st. Find out more at the link below.
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Ad Astra Fellow in Ethics and Philosophy of Technology - UCD School of Philosophy
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London AI and Humanity Project @laihp.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Next up in our ongoing AI Affect series: 👤 Jeff Sebo (NYU) @jeffsebo.bsky.social 📢 "The Moral Circle" 🗓️ Tuesday, February 4, 3-4:30 PM 📍 Join us in person or online! DM for details.
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Very good (technical) explainer answering "How has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture?". Aimed at readers already familiar with Transformers. epoch.ai/gradient-upd...
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How has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture?
This Gradient Updates issue goes over the major changes that went into DeepSeek’s most recent model.
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London AI and Humanity Project @laihp.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The LAIHP is pleased to invite applications for Visiting Fellowships at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London. The fellowship period will run from May 19th-June 27th, 2025 For more information, see below.
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AI Fellows 2025 | LAIHP
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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Today, we are publishing the first-ever International AI Safety Report, backed by 30 countries and the OECD, UN, and EU. It summarises the state of the science on AI capabilities and risks, and how to mitigate those risks. 🧵 Full Report: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/679a0c... 1/21
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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Reminder @alex-taylor.bsky.social is speaking *this* Thursday discussing his BRAID project on red teaming & outsourcing labour in the Global South. Make sure you don't miss out - get your hybrid ticket now 👉 rb.gy/64oljm @technomoralfutures.bsky.social @edcdcs.bsky.social @uoe-gail.bsky.social
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BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar - Alex Taylor
Thursday, 30th January 2025 [Inspace / Zoom]
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London AI and Humanity Project @laihp.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Can't wait for this talk tomorrow? Too bad, that's when it is. We're excited too.
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Stefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Epistemic biases in human reinforcement learning: behavioral evidence, computational characterization, normative status and possible applications. A quite self-centered review, but with a broad introduction and conclusions and very cool figures. Few main takes will follow osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Journal of the American Philosophical Association @apa-journal.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
The Journal of the American Philosophical Association is now on 🦋 Bluesky 🦋! We aim to publish papers that break new ground, are from diverse philosophical traditions, and are on topics of wide interest. Here are our most recent articles! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Follow us for updates.
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FirstView articles | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core
Journal of the American Philosophical Association - Heather D. Battaly
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London AI and Humanity Project @laihp.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We're excited to announce the next speaker in our AI Affect series is Amanda McCroskery (Google Deepmind)! 📢 "From Research to Practical Decision-making on Affective AI" 🗓️ January 28th, 3-4:30 PM 📍 Join us in person or online! DM for details.
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London AI and Humanity Project @laihp.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Discussion of the #aiglossary in the Daily Nous!
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A Philosophically Informed Glossary of Key Concepts in AI - Daily Nous
“Part of explaining what an AI system is doing and knowing why it is doing it turns on knowing what (if anything) the system is representing when reaching an output.” That’s a small excerpt from the e...
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Nikhil Venkatesh @nikvenkatesh.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Inspired by Keir Starmer's speech yesterday to read Kate Vredenburgh's paper on the dangers of using AI in bureaucratic settings www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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AI and bureaucratic discretion
Algorithmic decision-making has the potential to radically reshape policy-making and policy implementation. Many of the moral examinations of AI in government take AI to be a neutral epistemic tool...
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
On one hand, this paper finds adding inference-time compute (like o1 does) improves medical reasoning, which is an important finding suggesting a way to continue to improve AI performance in medicine On the other hand, scientific illustrations are apparently just anime now arxiv.org/pdf/2501.06458
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Benjamin Henke @handle.invalid · 13/01/2025
It’s about time.
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cfi-cambridge.bsky.social @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
📣There is still time to apply for one of 2 Assistant Professors roles at CFI- one in AI and Ethics Design, and the other in the Social Science of AI. Closing date 2nd February.
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Vacancies - LCFI
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Benjamin Henke @handle.invalid · 10/01/2025
Really puts my daily exhaustion into perspective.
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cfi-cambridge.bsky.social @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Welcome to Cambridge, Inga 👋 It's great to have you here.
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Benjamin Henke @handle.invalid · 08/01/2025
I spent 10 days not checking my work email over the holidays, during which I received an invitation to review an article, a reminder of that invitation, and a retraction of that invitation due to lack of response. Already feeling productive in the new year! 💪
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London AI and Humanity Project @laihp.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
For some clarity, see Prof. Anandi Hattiangadi’s #aiglossary entry on AGI.
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Artificial General Intelligence — The Philosophical Glossary of AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an artefact, created by a human agent, that is capable of behaviour we would view as intelligent if it were human. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is an AI whose ...
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Benjamin Henke @handle.invalid · 06/01/2025
CFI is hiring!
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David Barack @dlbarack.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
We've got an excellent line-up in both philosophy and neuroscience for our first conference! Submit your abstracts by Feb 1 and join us in St. Louis in early May!
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Athena Demertzi @ademertzi.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
On behalf of the #ASSC28 Scientific Program Committee, the Symposia and Tutorials are now announced 🥳 assc2025.gr/programme/sy....
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SYMPOSIA AND TUTORIALS
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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
"The AI risk repository, which includes over 700 AI risks grouped by causal factors (e.g. intentionality), and domains (e.g. discrimination), was born out of a desire to understand the overlaps and disconnects in AI safety research" #AIEthics techcrunch.com/2024/08/14/m...
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MIT researchers release a repository of AI risks | TechCrunch
A group of researchers at MIT and elsewhere have compiled what they claim is the most thorough databases of possible risks around AI use.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 04/01/2025
What are some of the things you've learned about how LLMs (and LLM-powered systems like ChatGPT) work that were non-obvious but most helped you build a more effective mental model of how to use them?
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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JohnMark Taylor @johnmarktaylor.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Recording modalities like fMRI aggregate the responses of many thousands of neurons, but how does this affect representational geometry? Meticulous essential breakdown from @veronicabossio.bsky.social biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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When do measured representational distances reflect the neural representational geometry?
The representational geometry of a brain region can be characterized by the distances among neural activity patterns for a set of experimental conditions. Researchers routinely estimate representation...
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Marlene Cohen @marlenecohen.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
New results for a new year! “Linking neural population formatting to function” describes our modern take on an old question: how can we understand the contribution of a brain area to behavior? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧠👩🏻‍🔬🧪🧵 #neuroskyence 1/
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Linking neural population formatting to function
Animals capable of complex behaviors tend to have more distinct brain areas than simpler organisms, and artificial networks that perform many tasks tend to self-organize into modules (1-3). This sugge...
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Benjamin Henke @handle.invalid · 27/12/2024
Virtuous regress double entendre!
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London AI and Humanity Project @laihp.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
FYI, we have one on consciousness as well… profits aren’t mentioned there either. #aiglossary #ai #consciousness #agi
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Conciousness — The Philosophical Glossary of AI
Consciousness is a special form of awareness. Could AI systems be conscious and why should we care?
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Benjamin Henke @handle.invalid · 27/12/2024
Rest assured, the nappies we bought on vacation are up to 100% leakproof.
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London AI and Humanity Project @laihp.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Anandi Hattiangadi's #aiglossary entry on 'Artificial General Intelligence' is a good primer on the variety of ways we use the term. This one... isn't included. #ai
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Artificial General Integlligence — The Philosophical Glossary of AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an artefact, created by a human agent, that is capable of behaviour we would view as intelligent if it were human. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is an AI whose ...
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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
We've released the CFP for #FAccT2025, which will be held in Athens, Greece! 🇬🇷 Abstracts are due on January 15th, papers on January 22nd. Read all about it on our new blog: facct-blog.github.io/2024-10-28/a...
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Announcing the FAccT 2025 Call for Papers
Welcome to the new FAccT blog! This is the first in a series of posts that will help the community stay informed about the organization, processes, and program for FAccT 2025.
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Shakir Mohamed @shakirm.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Deadline for faculty research grants up to $60k is 27 Jan! “The Research Scholar Program provides unrestricted gifts to support research at institutions around the world, and is focused on funding world-class research conducted by early-career professors” google.submittable.com/submit/ac6d7...
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Google - Research Scholar (RS) Application
Submission Deadline: The deadline for all final applications is Monday, January 27, 2025, at 11:59:59 PM AoE (UTC-12) (the deadline shown above will adjust to the timezone you are located in). All app...
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Michael Cholbi @thatwhichischolbi.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
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Benjamin Henke @handle.invalid · 22/12/2024
Inevitably my work will be too niche to get in…
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Benjamin Henke @handle.invalid · 20/12/2024
I strongly recommend the alternative Henke/Weksler method. You’ll see more money that way.
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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
our 3-year-old twins' most impressive superpowers are their haecceity senses. we give them the same toys, yet both of them want to play with *this* one but not *that* one—the final nail in the coffin for Leibniz's principle of the identity of indiscernibles
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London AI and Humanity Project @laihp.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Two new pieces from the LAIHP: Responding to Murray Shanahan's "Talking About Large Language Models," Stephen M. Downes, Patrick Forber, and LAIHP director @alexgrz.bsky.social argue that "LLMs are Not Just Next Token Predictors"
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LLMs are Not Just Next Token Predictors
LLMs are statistical models of language learning through stochastic gradient descent with a next token prediction objective. Prompting a popular view among AI modelers: LLMs are just next token predic...
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