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Cody Turner

@codyturner22.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy | Bentley University www.codyturnercreations.com

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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The final version of my article, “Virtual Trespassing: Privacy in Photographic VR” (co-authored with Kirsten Martin), has been published in the journal Ethics and Information Technology. Read here if interested! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Virtual trespassing: privacy in photographic VR - Ethics and Information Technology
This article introduces the concept of virtual trespassing, a novel privacy violation enabled by photographic virtual reality (VR). Photographic VR refers to VR experiences that allow users to inhabit...
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
My article ‘Virtual Trespassing: Privacy and Photographic VR’ (with Kirsten Martin @kmartin.bsky.social) is forthcoming in the journal Ethics and Information Technology. Read here!: philpapers.org/rec/TURVTP
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
My article “The Avatar Extended Self: Narrative Identity and Virtual Ethics” is forthcoming in the journal Review of Philosophy and Psychology: philpapers.org/rec/TURTAE-3
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Cody Turner, The Avatar Extended Self: Narrative Identity and Virtual Ethics - PhilPapers
A pressing question for the philosophy of personal identity in the digital age is the extent to which people can be identical to their various digital self-representations, from virtual avatars and .....
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Final version of my article,‘Programmed to Please: the Moral and Epistemic Harms of AI Sycophancy’ (co-authored with Nir Eisikovits) now available in the journal AI and Ethics. Read here! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Programmed to please: the moral and epistemic harms of AI sycophancy - AI and Ethics
AI and Ethics - AI sycophancy is the tendency of large language models to prioritize user approval over truth. While there has been recent technical research characterizing the phenomenon, it...
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
AI sycophancy is the tendency of AI assistants to tell you what you want to hear. We offer a conceptual analysis of the phenomenon, trace its causes, and illuminate its harms by situating it within Aristotelian virtue theory.
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
My article “Programmed to Please: The Moral and Epistemic Harms of AI Sycophancy” (co-written with Nir Eisikovits) is forthcoming in the journal AI and Ethics: philpapers.org/rec/TURPTP-4
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Cody Turner & Nir Eisikovits, Programmed to Please: The Moral and Epistemic Harms of AI Sycophancy - PhilPapers
AI sycophancy is the tendency of large language models to prioritize user approval over truth. The sycophantic behavior of LLMs has been documented to cause significant harm, such as feeding users’ .....
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies @ieet.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
New IEET/AEC White Paper on neurotechnology governance, by Dr. Cody Turner. ieet.org/wp-content/u...
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
We discuss many topics under the AI ethics sun, including AI and cognitive offloading, the future of work, AI and virtue ethics, Transhumanism versus Ludditism, existential risk, utopias and fully automated luxury communism, the promise of AI in science, and the ethics of AI companions.
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
In this episode of my podcast, I speak with my former student, Aiden Gilroy. Aiden is currently a sophomore at the University of Notre Dame, majoring in Political Science and Philosophy, and working as a research writer for the Notre Dame New AI Project: codyturnercreations.com/57-ai-and-th...
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AI and the Good Life
In this episode, I speak with my former student, Aiden Gilroy. Aiden is currently a sophomore at the University of Notre Dame, majoring in Political Science and Philosophy, and working as a researc…
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies @ieet.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
IEET/AEC Seminar The Ethics, Uses, and Risks of Brain-Computer Interfaces April 23 - 10am-3pm - UMass Boston Open to the public
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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Intellectual Humility Without Open-Mindedness: How to Respond to Extremist Views | Episteme | Cambridge Core
Intellectual Humility Without Open-Mindedness: How to Respond to Extremist Views
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies @ieet.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Brain-computer interface series, episode 9: Cody and I are joined by Stephen Rainey, professor of Philosophy at Delft University, specializing in neuroethics and neurophilosophy, and is the author of the 2023 book Philosophical Perspectives on Brain Data. ethics.podbean.com/e/neural-dec...
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
the differing data collection models in the U.S., China, and the EU, his critique of the EU’s GDPR privacy laws, and his proposal for government-managed anonymized medical data collection to enhance technological competitiveness and support universal healthcare.
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Topics include Nietzschean philosophy and its connection to transhumanism, metahumanism and how it differs from both transhumanism and posthumanism, Sorgner's 'we have always been cyborgs' thesis, his critique of traditional utopianism,
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Dr. Sorgner is a philosophy professor at John Cabot University in Rome, Director and Co-Founder of the Beyond Humanism Network, and Editor-in-Chief and Founder of the Journal of Posthuman Studies. We discuss several aspects of his wide-ranging work.
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
In this eighth episode of the Umass Boston Ethics in Action Podcast series on BCIs (brain-computer interfaces), J Hughes and I are joined by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner: ethics.podbean.com/e/cyborg-eth...
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Cyborg Ethics: A Conversation with Stefan Lorenz Sorgner | Ethics in Action Podcast
In this eighth episode of our series on brain-computer interfaces, we are joined by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner. Dr. Sorgner is a philosophy professor at John Cabot University in Rome, Director and Co-Found...
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies @ieet.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Come down to Florida in March for this year's MindFest. Cody Turner and I will speak, along with Kristin Andrews, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Robin Hanson, Zoltan Istvan, Susan Schneider, Mark Bailey, Tam Hunt, Jonathan Schooler, Julia Mossbridge and more TBA! philevents.org/event/show/1...
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MindFest 2025: Sentience, Autonomy and the Future of Human-AI Interaction
MindFest 2025: Sentience, Autonomy and the Future of Digital Agency March 12–13, 2025 | The Center for the Future Mind | Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL Join us at MindFest...
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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies @ieet.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
In this seventh episode of our series on BCIs (brain-computer interfaces), we are joined by Sara Goering (Philosophy, UWashington). We discuss disability and neuroethics, the BCI Pioneers Coalition, relational agency, and the extended mind. ethics.podbean.com/e/brain-pion...
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Brain Pioneers: A Conversation with Sara Goering | Ethics in Action Podcast
In this seventh episode of our series on brain-computer interfaces, we are joined by Sara Goering. Dr. Goering is Professor of Philosophy, and Core Faculty for the Program on Ethics and the Disability...
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Dr. Gilbert's research focuses on the ethics of novel implantable brain-computer interfaces operated by Artificial Intelligence (AI). We discuss several aspects of Dr. Gilbert’s wide-ranging work, focusing on deep brain stimulation (DBS).
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
In this sixth episode of the Umass Boston Ethics in Action Podcast mini-series on brain-computer interfaces, James Hughes and I are joined by Dr. Frederic Gilbert, Associate Professor and the Head of the Discipline for Philosophy at the University of Tasmania.
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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Deep Brain Stimulation: A Conversation with Frederic Gilbert | Ethics in Action Podcast
In this sixth episode of our series on brain-computer interfaces, we are joined by Frederic Gilbert. Dr. Gilbert is an Associate Professor in Ethics and the Head of the Discipline for Philosophy at th...
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Katie Peters, Heather Battaly, and I have co-authored an article titled "Intellectual Humility without Open-mindedness: How to Respond to Extremist Views," forthcoming in the journal Episteme: philpapers.org/rec/PETIHW
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Katie Peters, Cody Turner & Heather Battaly, Intellectual Humility without Open-mindedness: How to Respond to Extremist Views - PhilPapers
How should we respond to extremist views that we know are false? This paper proposes that we should be intellectually humble, but not open-minded. We should own our intellectual limitations, but ...
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Katie Peters, Heather Battaly, and I have co-authored an article titled "Intellectual Humility without Open-mindedness: How to Respond to Extremist Views," forthcoming in the journal Episteme: philpapers.org/rec/PETIHW
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Katie Peters, Cody Turner & Heather Battaly, Intellectual Humility without Open-mindedness: How to Respond to Extremist Views - PhilPapers
How should we respond to extremist views that we know are false? This paper proposes that we should be intellectually humble, but not open-minded. We should own our intellectual limitations, but ...
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Summary: How should we respond to extremist views that we know are false? This paper proposes that we should be intellectually humble, but not open-minded. We should own our intellectual limitations, but be unwilling to revise our beliefs in the falsity of the extremist views.
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
genetic algorithms and AI systems subjected to simulated evolutionary pressures, studying introspection in animals versus AI, leveraging AI to better understand animal minds and promote animal welfare, wild animal welfare, zoo ethics, and the challenge of measuring animal welfare.
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
We discuss a variety of topics, including the evolution of consciousness, Walter's concept of phenomenological complexity, the adaptive functions of consciousness, artificial minds and AI consciousness, the possibility of superintelligent AI surpassing the need for consciousness,
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Cody Turner @codyturner22.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
In this episode of my podcast, I speak with Dr. Walter Veit, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Reading: codyturnercreations.com/56-evolution...
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56. Evolution, AI, and Animal Minds (with Dr. Walter Veit)
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Walter Veit, an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Reading. Walter is a wide-ranging philosopher working primarily at the intersections of the …
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