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John Symons

@johnfsymons.bsky.social
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Professor of Philosophy, Director, Center for Cyber Social Dynamics at University of Kansas.

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John Symons @johnfsymons.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Bravo Syed
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Syed AbuMusab @smusab.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Now with all the official stuff taken care of, I can freely share that I was fortunate enough to secure a TT position for Fall '25 at the University of Texas-Arlington. Very thankful to @johnfsymons.bsky.social @sarahrobins.bsky.social, Brad Cokelet, @coreymaley.net & KU Phil. #philtech #philsky
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Ramón Alvarado @ramonalvarado.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Can we have close relationships with AI? In this new DatOS episode, Oluwaseun Sanwoolu walks us through her paper (w @johnfsymons.bsky.social) on why we are simply mistaken if we think we can. Hint: it’s our human limitations that make things special. youtu.be/2vw3XVZV4Ps?...
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Why AI Can’t Be Your Friend. DatOS Ep. 6: Oluwaseun Sanwoolu
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Syed AbuMusab @smusab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
New Paper Alert: You've heard of lethal autonomous weapons and capital punishment.. what happens when they converge? An anticipatory analysis of how AI could reshape execution debates @reneeasirbu.bsky.social @floridi.bsky.social #philtech #moralphil #philsky #LawAI papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Execution by Lethal Autonomous Mechanism: How Anti-Capital Punishment Arguments Might Lead to Automated Executions-and Why Such Automation Must Be Prevented
In this paper, we examine the potential integration of artificial intelligence into capital punishment through lethal autonomous mechanisms (LAMs), an extension
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John Symons @johnfsymons.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Super proud of my former student Ramón Alvarado discussing ethics of AI in public facing and highly accessible ways. He elegantly models how philosophy can be conducted at the highest levels of excellence while still being accessible and urgently relevant.
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John Symons @johnfsymons.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I had the chance to talk about philosophy & AI w Ben Yelin about close personal relationships, social agency & AI. My part starts at min 26It's an introduction to some of the recent work that I've done together with Oluwaseun Damilola Sanwoolu and Syed Abumusab. open.spotify.com/episode/6lqZ...
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Caveat Live: FBI and KU Cybersecurity Conference.
Caveat · Episode
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John Symons @johnfsymons.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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John Symons @johnfsymons.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Lovely visit to University of Oregon. A delight to see Ramón and to talk philosophy with his brilliant and lively departmental community
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John Symons @johnfsymons.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Recent paper with Oluwaseun Damilola Sanwoolu : "Close Personal Relationships with People and Artifacts? Loneliness, Agent-Relative Obligations, and Artificially Intelligent Companions" is finally accepted for publication at Philosophy &Technology. johnsymons.net/wp-content/upl…
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Ramón Alvarado @ramonalvarado.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
When we wrote about this issue related to computer simulations, @johnfsymons.bsky.social and I used an analogy to oracle worshipers. It’s OK, but it’s definitely not epistemologically hygienic scientific practice. AI is even more opaque.
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John Symons @johnfsymons.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Nice write up of our History and Philosophy of Materialism volume here news.ku.edu/news/article...
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History and philosophy of materialism
A new book offers an in-depth look at materialism, the idea that all facts, events and objects are dependent on or reducible to physical processes. This multi-author work features 31 chapters that exp...
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John Symons @johnfsymons.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Jack Horner and I will be talking to High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart on "How to interpret quantum supremacy claims" join online, all talks will be broadcasted at unistuttgart.webex.com/meet/nico.form… reading: What Have Google’s Rand… Dec 13, 2024 16:00 hlrs.de/event/2024/how 
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HTTP Status 400 – Bad Request
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John Symons @johnfsymons.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Center for Cyber Social Dynamics Lab ( most of us)
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John Symons @johnfsymons.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy Thanksgiving to all
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John Symons @johnfsymons.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Perceptions and attitudes toward artificial intelligence among frontline physicians and physicians’ assistants in Kansas: a cross-sectional survey doi.org/10.1093/jami... #AI #medicine #physician
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Validate User
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John Symons @johnfsymons.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
St Nicholas, Lawrence, Kansas
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John Symons @johnfsymons.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Lovely to talk to the Computer Science Department at UTEP this morning! Talked about AI, social norms, and institutions among other things. #UTEP #AI #philosophy
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John Symons @johnfsymons.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Holy Archangel Michael & All Saints Skete. #orthodoxy
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John Symons @johnfsymons.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
youtube.com/live/3r0bpun... My provocations about Thinking and Writing with AI. My talk begins at the 2 hour point. Posting this as an experiment. #AI #philsky #philosophy
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John Symons @johnfsymons.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Hello Bluesky!
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