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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
#AIEthics #PhilTech #TechEthics #AIGovernance
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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
- Posthumous harm - Grief with technology - Monuments and public memorials If you know any good articles/resources for these topics, please send them my way 🧠🧠🧠 #Philosophy #Ethics #TechEthics
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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
doi.org/10.1007/s117...
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Images, Moral Feelings, and Rites: Engaging Confucianism with Philosophy of Technology - Dao
Technology is increasingly prominent as a topic of philosophical and normative reflection, as recent technological advancements in areas such as artificial intelligence and climate technologies have d...
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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
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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
My deep gratitude to the contributors to the vol. Tom, Ching @hungching1982 , Qin @qzhu0723, and Fei. Also, extremely thankful to Peter-Paul Verbeek @ppverbeek, Carl Mitcham, Charles Ess @charles_ess and Li Chenyang for the very, very kind endorsement.
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Harmonious Technology is admittedly a short vol, but it is our attempt to articulate another approach to confront technology's philosophical and ethical dimension. I hope this is only the start of something interesting and I hope, for those who are going to pick this up, like it.
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Harmonious technology and harmonious technological practices. To design and use technology in ways that are mindful of the relational impacts of technology and technological practices and aim for mutual complementarity (Epilogue, Wang & Wong)
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Confucian scientific spirit. The purpose of scientific and technological development is not merely instrumental but also moral, i.e., to empower people to realize their very (human) nature (Chapter 6, TENG Fei)
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Confucian oneness. Decisions/actions that harm the universe and other beings also harm oneself. We are part of the one and harming the one worsens the basis for our flourishing. It is a moral failure when tech users fail to be mindful of tech impacts in their use (Chapter 5, Wong)
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Ontological dimension in engineering ethics education. Confucian engineering ethics attends to how engineers transform themselves with small, everyday and seemingly “amoral” choices and sets itself apart from approaches that focus on knowledge and skills (Chapter 4, ZHU Qin)
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Confucianism-informed technological mediation technology. Focuses not on the issues of individual freedom but starts with relational nature of human beings, which draw no clear boundary between the self and the community, and guided by Confucian value of harmony (Chapter 3, HUNG Ching)
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Confucian Ritual technicity. The idea that (technological) artifacts are not only instruments for practical ends but instead are carriers of embodied rituals that transcend human worldly-existence (Chapter 1, Tom Wang)
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Multicultural turn in #philtech and #techethics. Multicultural turn aims to diversify the phil and ethics of tech by including other traditions into the discussion, thereby enriching the theoretical resources for thinking about tech (Introduction, Wong & Wang)
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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
Realised just now that I stopped this thread after the ed vol. There was, actually, also 'AI for Datong' informatio.fic.edu.uy/index.php/in... where I refer to the concept of Datong (Great Unity). Should be of interest if you are want to read abt an alt vision of AI4SG.
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IA para el bien común, IA para Datong | Informatio. Revista del Instituto de Información de la Facultad de Información y Comunicación
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
In the vol. my co-editor Tom Wang and I also discuss why Confucianism is indeed important for phil and ethics of tech, and put forward an acc of Confucian ethics of technology around the idea of 'harmonious technology' /end
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Another notion that may contribute to phil and ethics of tech is the idea of oneness, which foregrounds our interconnectedness with others and with things in the world. I discuss this in my chapter in the vol Harmonious Technology routledge.com/Harmonious-T... /4
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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
The idea of rituals, I believe, do offer an interesting way to engage with phil and ethics of tech. I elaborate on this in a forthcoming chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Technology philpapers.org/rec/WONWCM /3
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Pak-Hang Wong, Why Confucianism Matters in Ethics of Technology - PhilPapers
There are a number of recent attempts to introduce Confucian values to the ethical analysis of technology. These works, however, have not attended sufficiently to one central aspect of Confucianism, n...
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
In Rituals and Machines mdpi.com/2409-9287/4/..., I started to explore the Confucian idea of rituals and its applicability to the problem of moral deskilling as identified by @shannonvallor.bsky.social /2
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Rituals and Machines: A Confucian Response to Technology-Driven Moral Deskilling
Robots and other smart machines are increasingly interwoven into the social fabric of our society, with the area and scope of their application continuing to expand. As we become accustomed to interac...
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pak-hang wong, phd @drybis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Time to update this thread as a few more papers were published/are on their way! Over the past years, I have been reflecting on whether Confucianism has something unique to contribute to phil and ethics of tech /1
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