But they still pose risks.

The recent explosion of AI capacity, along with booming prophecies about its limitless potential, arrives at a moment of profound unease. Just over a century ago, in the aftermath of the First World W...

Dehumanisation is a driving force behind some of history’s worst atrocities, according to Professor David Livingstone Smith. As Visiting Professor at LiU he will investigate when, how and why one huma...

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The empirical foundation of science has often been characterised in terms of the observable-unobservable distinction, developed either syntactically, as a set of statements, or semantically, as aspect...

<p><em>Debates are everywhere about the power and limitation of AI. Some fall into wild hype. Others are too conservative. Here, phenomenologist <strong>Harald Wiltsche</strong>, and philosopher and l...

Contemporary AI systems - especially large language models (LLMs) - exhibit a striking combination of capabilities and failures: apparent fluency and cross-domain coherence alongside persistent breakd...

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Phenomenology of science is supposed to return to the things themselves by getting as close as possible to the level of scientific practice. In doing so, it engages with a broader landscape of scholar...

In his book, A Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Mechanics: Cutting the Chain of Correlations, Steven French argues that quantum mechanics, underst…

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Cambridge university among institutions seeing chance to hire talent unsettled by US spending cuts

In 2023, LiU joined a worldwide project to measure the extent of consensus among researchers on burning scientific issues. After a successful test, the number of higher education institutions that hav...

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My name is Dana Wunsch, I am an Austrian textile artist currently based in Sweden, with periodic stays in San Francisco.

With the help of a new experiment, researchers at LiU, have succeeded in confirming a ten-year-old theoretical study, which connects the complementarity principle with information theory.

We take up the challenge of developing an international network with capacity to survey the world’s scientists on an ongoing basis, providing rich datasets regarding the opinions of scientists and sci...