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pak-hang wong, phd

@drybis.bsky.social
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asst prof at hong kong baptist university, philosopher and ethicist of technology; co-editor of harmonious technology: a confucian ethics of technology; rants are strictly personal. #philtech

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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Article in Chinese on AI and affective injustice through the case of Moxie's decommission. #EmotionalAI #AIEthics #PhilTech
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
New paper is out! After Harm: A Plea for Moral Repair after Algorithms Have Failed. @aktant.bsky.social & I show that post-harm scenarios have not received enough attention and argue why attending to them is essential for a satisfactory account of AI ethics and governance. doi.org/10.1007/s119...
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After Harm: A Plea for Moral Repair after Algorithms Have Failed - Science and Engineering Ethics
In response to growing concerns over the societal impacts of AI and algorithmic decision-making, current scholarly and legal efforts have mainly focused on identifying risks and implementing safeguard...
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
SPT SIG Virtue Ethics Symposium starts! We are in a different building (Atlas 2.015—there is a bridge from Auditorium to reach us) but do come listening to some exciting talks if you are interested in virtue ethics. #SPT2025
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
#SPT2025 is happening in Eindhoven next week! I'll present a paper on the ethics of digital doppelgangers at the symposium organised by SPT SIG Virtue Ethics. Looking forward to meeting old and new friends! #PhilTech #TechEthics
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This is the latest addition to my on-going project on Confucian Ethics of Technology. In this paper, I move beyond the normative resources in the early Confucian to Neo-Confucian philosophy. Looking forward to sharing the ideas at CEACOP. #TechEthics #AIEthics #PhilTech
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Levi Checketts @lchecketts.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
New book on #AIEthics from #EasternPhilosophy and #WesternPhilosophy perspectives! With contributions from @drybis.bsky.social , @kiwigreenflame.bsky.social , @karenhao.bsky.social , and many more!! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Social and Ethical Considerations of AI in East Asia and Beyond
This book is a global reflection on disparate religious and philosophical approaches to questions of AI and ways questions affect East Asian societies
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Confucian 'Trustworthy AI', my 2nd publication of 2025. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... Filed in #AIEthics #ConfucianEthics #ConfucianPhilTech #ConfucianTechEthics
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Confucian ‘Trustworthy AI’: Diversifying a Keyword in the Ethics of AI and Governance
The term ‘trustworthy AI’ has become one of the keywords in the academic and policy discussion of the social, ethical, and legal issues of artificial intelligence (AI), but it remains a co...
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Filed in #AIEthics #PhilTech
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The irony gizmodo.com/anthropic-wa... Filed in #AIEthics
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Anthropic Wants You to Use AI—Just Not to Apply for Its Jobs
The company asks candidates to certify that they will not use AI during the application process.
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 05/02/2025
#UCD School of Philosophy is looking for a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the #Ethics and #Philosophy of Technology for a prestigious 5-year fellowship leading to a permanent position (subject to satisfactory performance). #PhilTech #PhilSci #AIEthics #PhilJobs www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n...
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Ad Astra Fellow in Ethics and Philosophy of Technology - UCD School of Philosophy
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Why Do Philosophy Now? Files in #AIEthics #TechEthics #PhilTech
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Philosophy Eats AI
AI’s ability to create value rests on the philosophy determining how and what it learns.
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
If true, this spells the end of policy-relevant philosophy and ethics, not to mention Tech Ethics and related topics (more so if it applies to humanities and social sciences funding agencies). Files in #TechEthics #PhilTech
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Andrew Ng: "If the U.S. continues to stymie open source, China will come to dominate this part of the supply chain and many businesses will end up using ***models that reflect China’s values*** much more than America’s" Filed in #AIEthics #InterculturalAIEthics
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Reinforcement Learning Heats Up, White House Orders Muscular AI Policy, and more...
The Batch AI News and Insights: The buzz over DeepSeek this week crystallized, for many people, a few important trends that have been happening in...
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
(Read: Let's not learn anything hard but only gratify instantly.) #Filed in #AIEthics #TechEthics #PhilTech #Deskilling
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CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don’t Like Making Music
"I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music.”
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Filed in #AIEthics #EdTech
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About a quarter of U.S. teens have used ChatGPT for schoolwork – double the share in 2023
Teens are far more likely to say it’s acceptable to use ChatGPT for research (54%) than for math problems (29%) and essays (18%).
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Hey folks! I have a chance to promote new books on AI/tech that deserve attention this year. Looking for books that will offer a critical or novel perspective, not empty hype, and that are engaging for non-academics as well as researchers. Anything w/release date before August. What do you suggest?
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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Philosophy and science fiction syllabus for the 2nd round of the classs! Two big differences to other Phil+sci-fi syllabi: it's for upper division students, not intro; no pairing with 'normal' philosophy readings, just using the SFF as philosophical texts. Very discussion focused #philsky #philsci
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Phil 331 syllabus spring 2024.pdf
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Semester starts next week, so it's time to finalize the topics for the course *Contemporary Ethical Problems*, and I think I am settling on: - Procreation and antinatalism - Future persons - Meaning of Life - Casual relations and technology - Self-porn [...]
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Rosamunde Van Brakel @rosamundevb.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Save the date 19-20 June 2025 in Rotterdam and submit an abstract before 15 February 2025 ! We also welcome artistic submissions! more info here: www.eur.nl/en/news/call... #AI #criminology #digitalcriminology @marcschuilenburg.bsky.social
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Filed in #AIEthics #PhilTech #TechEthics
the-tls.co.uk
Why the writing is on the wall for essay writing
Will 2025 be the year we give up the teaching of writing? I don’t mean the basics, of course; elementary pupils still need to learn their letters. (How
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
"Images, Moral Feelings, and Rites"—a new paper on Confucian #PhilTech published. In this paper, Xiaowei Wang and I outline a Confucian approach to human-technology relations and put Confucian philosophy in dialogue with postphenomenology directly. Enjoy and let us know what you think!
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
This is funny because I was recently marveling at how much knobs/dials on appliances rock. Especially when they have some weight/resistance - they tell your body you’re doing a thing. Incredibly physically and mentally satisfying compared to anything I have to do by tapping on an app
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Whitepaper on the concept of an #Agent in Generative AI by Google. www.kaggle.com/whitepaper-a... Filed in #AIAgents #PhilTech
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Agents
Authors: Julia Wiesinger, Patrick Marlow and Vladimir Vuskovic
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Filed in #AIEthics #AIAgents
wired.com
AI Agents Will Be Manipulation Engines
Surrendering to algorithmic agents risks putting us under their influence.
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Filed in #TechEthics #Sustainability
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Filed in #AIEthics #PhilTech #TechEthics
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 05/12/2024
"Any reservations about AI get you dismissed as a Luddite—though it’s worth remembering that it was the Luddites, not the mill owners, who understood more holistically what the impact of the new mill machinery would be." – Brian Eno knows the truth of Luddism. www.bostonreview.net/forum_respon...
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AI’s Walking Dog - Boston Review
Today’s tech inverts the value of the creative process.
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Filed in #algorithmicharms
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This somehow reminds me of Routledge Handbooks of...
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Laura D'Olimpio @lauradol4.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Looks like bluesky is going to be added to altmetrics! #philsky #academicsky
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Filed in #techethics #aiethics
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A quick tour of Harmonious Technology routledge.com/Harmonious-T... from my old #bluebirdarchive. The vol I co-ed with Tom Wang (Remin) should be out tomorrow (read: Feb 26, 2021). I do not have the physical copy to show, but I can surely share some keywords and ideas you will find in the volume
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Harmonious Technology: A Confucian Ethics of Technology
Technology has become a major subject of philosophical ethical reflection in recent years, as the novelty and disruptiveness of technology confront us with new possibilities and unprecedented outcomes...
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Now that the move to Bluesky is real, there are a few threads I want to move from the former Blue Bird to here, one of those is about my journey to Confucian ethics of technology. #philtech #techethics
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Filed in #philtech #aiethics
technologyreview.com
AI can now create a replica of your personality
A two-hour interview is enough to accurately capture your values and preferences, according to new research from Stanford and Google DeepMind.
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Filed in #philtech #aiethics
forbes.com
Introducing Daisy, The ‘AI Granny’ Outwitting Scammers
British telecom company O2 adds to its fraud team a human-like chatbot that fools scammers into thinking they’ve found a perfect senior target, then wastes their time.
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
My department is hiring a teaching post in the areas of comparative religion, comparative philosophy, and applied ethics, broadly conceived. #philjobs #hongkong #philtech
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Lecturer I/ Lecturer II, Academy of Chinese, History, Religion and Philosophy
This position sits under the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at our Kowloon Tong campus. The core responsibilities are teaching courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels offered by the Depa...
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Seth Lazar @sethlazar.org · 17/11/2024
Don't miss out on this year's FAccT in Athens, with a stellar team behind it. Put Jan 15 in your calendar.
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Ashley Shew @ashleyshoo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Philosophy of Technology Starter Pack Started Here: go.bsky.app/BhbK7AE
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/11/2023
me and @zeerak.bsky.social wrote about if decolonial AI is at all possible www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book…
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Preparing my talk for tomorrow at philevents.org/event/show/1.... I am gonna start with the Analects 2.4 ... #philtech
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Emerging Technologies & Well-Being
Details The workshop on "Emerging Technologie and Wellbeing " explores the relationship between technology and well-being. Among the topics discussed at the workshop are Confucian philosophies in...
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
#philtech
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
This has been brewing for some time: very happy to share the news that I am taking up a TT post at Dept of Religion & Philosophy, Hong Kong Baptist University from 01.2024, working on Applied Ethics of AI.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
We wrote a thing: on the UK's AI Safety Summit, and the lessons we still need to learn from the history of safety engineering. TL/DR: AI safety is not a *technical* problem #philtech #sts #philsky #histsci #AI&HCI #AIethics braiduk.org/a-shrinking-...
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A shrinking path to safety: how a narrowly technical approach to align AI with the public good could...
On September 4, the UK government announced plans to host the first global “AI Safety Summit” at historic Bletchley Park on the 1st and 2nd of November. The announcement made clear that the focus ...
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Syed AbuMusab @smusab.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
Hello all philosophers of technology and anyone else. I set up a feed specifically for posts for people working in this area. Hopefully it'll work just like twitter. Just use "#philtech" and your post will show up under this feed. Anyone following this feed will see your post. Happy discussions! :)
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
For those interested in AI, this is a fantastic primer by @ainowinstitute.bsky.social on the infrastructure needed to make AI work. Think: chips and compute plus the geopolitics, institutions, markets, and politics that make it all happen. ainowinstitute.org/publication/...
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Computational Power and AI
By Jai Vipra & Sarah Myers WestSeptember 27, 2023 In this article What is compute and why does it matter? How is the demand for compute shaping AI development? What kind of hardware is involved? What ...
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