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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dear academic colleagues, after delaying this post for three months, about an event that was planned for a year, I am very pleased to announce this amazing conference on the very topic you work on: it will take place tonight, but you will see the post tomorrow. #PhilSky #Academia

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fascinating and well informed article, although going in to many directions. I still wonder how you could make responsible AI that "gives a damn" about death without itself being aware of its own mortality. #PhilSky #PhilSci #AIEthics

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Deeply sad to learn that Edgar Morin went away. The 20th Century disappear a little bit more. #PhilSky

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Frictionless information might just be like a frictionless plane... #AIEthics #Media

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I wouldn't say that for everything I wrote, but rereading and translating it a year after it's been published, I believe it's a decent piece of work. "What don't you understand?" Language games and black box algorithms #PhilSky #PhilSci #XAI #LLM #🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2603.25900

The aim of this article is to understand the problem of "black box" algorithms, an issue inherent to the nascent field of ⁰Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). While it is relatively easy to understand something someone explained to us, it becomes more complicated when no one can fully grasp the issue. Our purpose is however to highlight: (1) that we should speak of interpretability rather than explainability when we seek to understand models, mainly because we never have complete and unambiguous access to information; (2) that the machines face the problem of the inscrutability of reference, in the same way that the linguist imagined by Willard Van Orman Quine cannot precisely determine what the term "gavagai" refers to in a situation of radical translation; (3) that there is no rule for the application of language, except for "language games", as Ludwig Wittgenstein's linguistics teaches us. The hope of achieving complete explicability and transparency of algorithms is undoubtedly in vain: we can only rely on partial and broad interpretations that will never fully explain the underlying rules.

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

When my cat is acting randomly and doing stupid things, I don't assume he's really aware nor conscious during these periods (and I doubt he is). Why should we assume steel and silicon machines are when they're doing the same? #PhilSky #AIEthics

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Am I the only one wondering why the hell would you use #LLMs for millitary purpose? I know the US said they used Claude and just signed an agreement with OpenAI, but the models still hallucinate so much we need to check everything. In war, you need accuracy and chain of command. #AIEthics #Iran

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Just discovered this fascinating piece on consciousness, life and our bodies. A text every student interested in philosophy of mind should read. "The really important question is: was your body ‘dumb’ before you had a brain? If so, how did you manage to survive without neurons?" #PhilSky #PhilSci

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Fascinating article on cursive and print handwriting (and tablets), to add fuel to Bernard Stiegler's fire. #EduSky #PhilSky #SciPhil

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Excellent article on AI consumption. Datacenters (for AI or not) produce nowadays more CO2 equivalent than France. #AIEthics #Energy

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Interesting paper! I agree on the premise that the experience of time cannot be divided in snapshots, contrary to physics. I agree on the conclusion that consciousness is not physical. But not on the argument that the conclusion should follow from the premise. #PhilSky iai.tv/articles/con...

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Consciousness breaks from the physical world by keeping the past alive

<p><em>Conscious experiences of change, from seeing a bird take flight to listening to a melody, cannot be broken down into ever smaller units of experience. They must inhabit what William James calle...

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Just to try at Paris Airport CDG, I asked not to use PARAFE, the facial recognition system for border control. Indeed, it was possible to have my passport checked by a human, but it took a more than 10 min. while it is roughly 1 min. with the machines, and I was in the priority line. #AIEthics

PARAFE machines at CDG Airport near Paris.

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

This year's most important information...

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I've been looking for the reference for this quote: "Whoever controls the people's fears becomes master of their souls", presumably by Niccolo Machiavelli, but I could not find any sentence looking like that in his work. Does anyone know the reference? #PhilSky archive.org/details/nicc...

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Niccolò Machiavelli Tutte Le Opere [ Martelli Bompiani] : Niccolò Machiavelli : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Niccolò Machiavelli Tutte Le Opere [ Martelli Bompiani]

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Hello #Philsky, I'm looking for a university level class on the Phenomenology of Spirit in Paris area this year. Have you heard of any class of this kind ? #Hegel

1831 Schlesinger Philosoph Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel anagoria. Public domain. Jakob Schlesinger — anagoria. Wikimedia.

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

This is the exact place in Clermont-Ferrand (France) where philosopher Blaise Pascal was born in 1623. The only indication I found is a pub called Café Pascal. Geographically speaking, the house was actually where the lampost is. 1/3

Café Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand where the philosopher's birthplace was (approximately).

Pascal's birthplace according to the coordinates on Wikipedia (lampost).

Rose window (south) in Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Clermont-Ferrand.

Sacristy's door and fresco in Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Clermont-Ferrand.

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Thierry Noisette @tnoisette.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Trump en guerre contre les IA woke : «Oui, ces outils ont des biais, mais…» Interview de @remyd.bsky.social par @reminoyon.bsky.social www.nouvelobs.com/monde/202507... "Dans la mesure où elles apprennent de nous, les IA contemporaines apprennent même l’inavouable, voire le pire."

C’est toute la perversité de sa déclaration : ces IA ont effectivement des biais, mais ils sont loin d’être wokes…

Dans son livre « Algorithmes : La bombe à retardement », la mathématicienne Cathy O’Neil le résumait très bien : « Les modèles malgré leur réputation d’impartialité sont le reflet d’une idéologie et d’objectifs bien précis ». Les algorithmes ont tendance à être conservateurs. L’IA dite « connexionniste », celle qui utilise des réseaux de neurones formels, de l’apprentissage profond, de larges modèles de langage, est par définition probabiliste et essentialiste. Elle s’entraîne sur des bases de données et en reproduit les biais. Elle fonctionne par des catégorisations qui écrasent les cas particuliers. Dans certains cas, ces outils peuvent même amplifier des discriminations. Par exemple, les banques d’images en ligne contiennent de façon disproportionnée des visages photographiés en Europe et Amérique du Nord. La militante Joy Buolamwini a bien montré que les IA avaient du mal, en conséquence, à bien identifier des femmes à la peau foncée. Le National Institute of Standards and Technology, d’ailleurs visé par Trump, a fait un énorme travail d’évaluation de ces biais de genre, d’ethnicité. Ce fut l’une des vertus de l’IA : elle révèle les angles morts d’une société. Dans la mesure où elles apprennent de nous, les IA contemporaines apprennent même l’inavouable, voire le pire.

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Excellent paper by @bernardokastrup.bsky.social, I really enjoyed reading it, but I still have a few questions. Why "analytic" idealism (and not just "idealism")? What are "transpersonal, non-perceptual experiential states" (how can they be non-perceptual and experiential at the same time)?

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Hey #PhilSky, what is the #1 reference in philosophy of technology you think about when you hear "Panoptic" (besides Foucault)?

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I completely forgot to tell you that I'll be in Geneva 🇨🇭 tonight to talk about generative AI and writing with Dora Formica, Pascal Nordmann, and Patrick Morier-Genoud. Feel free to come say hi ! #GenAI #Books #Editing #Comics m-r-l.ch/evenement/li...

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Maison Rousseau Littérature | L’intelligence artificielle au service de la création littéraire

Avec Camille de Toledo 25 mai 2024, 16h

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

History of philosophy over and over : - Philosophy : It's not possible. - Science : Look, it is. - Pholosophy : ... - Science : ... - Philosophy : Yes, but under which conditions do you know it is? #PhilSky #PhilSci

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Glad to share the paper on #XAI I just published (French) in the Italian journal Lessico di Etica Pubblica: "What don’t you understand? Language games and black box algorithms". If you like Quine, Wittgenstein and deep learning, it's for you. #PhilSky #PhilSci www.eticapubblica.it/remy-demiche...

Abstract in English for the article « Qu’est-ce que tu ne comprends pas ? » Jeux de langage et algorithmes boîte noire

Abstract in French for the article « Qu’est-ce que tu ne comprends pas ? » Jeux de langage et algorithmes boîte noire

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

C'est un honneur que "L'intelligence artificielle, ses biais et les nôtres" soit dans les bibliothèques de la @villedeparis.bsky.social. C'est à peine croyable que des personnes l'empruntent. Et c'est drôle de voir qu'il l'est à Mohammed Arkoun où une bonne partie a été écrite. #PhilSky #Paris5

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Just as a reminder, if you're wondering whether it was a nazi salute, here are some of them from 2016 shouting "Hail Trump !". So you'd rather be careful whenever you raise your right arm as a #Trump supporter, whatever the intent. #Musk youtu.be/1o6-bi3jlxk?...

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'Hail Trump!': Richard Spencer Speech Excerpts

YouTube video by The Atlantic

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I completely forgot to tell you that my paper published in The Conversation (France) has been translated in English an is available on #arXiv. 👉 "The Hermeneutic Turn of AI: Are Machines Capable of Interpreting?" #PhilSci #PhilSky #LLM arxiv.org/abs/2411.12517

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The Hermeneutic Turn of AI: Are Machines Capable of Interpreting?

This article aims to demonstrate how the approach to computing is being disrupted by deep learning (artificial neural networks), not only in terms of techniques but also in our interactions with machi...

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Spiil - Syndicat de la presse indépendante @spiil.org · 06/12/2024

Le Spiil apporte son soutien à @arialavrilleux.bsky.social et @disclosengo.bsky.social et dénonce une nouvelle atteinte contre le secret des sources des journalistes, un principe garanti par un réglement européen www.spiil.org/s/position/c...

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Spiil

Spiil — Syndicat des Éditeurs Indépendants d'Information en Ligne

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

How @lemonde.fr is using AI. Very interesting article. Seems like the most impactful use case will be translation. I hope it will lead to the europeanisation of the media industry, but still with professional journalists to proofread the articles. #Press

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Beware of dog 2.0. Seen today in Neuilly (Paris' suburb). #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #Security

Sign saying in French: "This area is secured by an advanced artificial intelligence."

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Glad to share that I have been invited by University Paris Nanterre's library to moderate a talk on "AI : Fate or Opportunity?", with Fabrizio Defilippi (lecturer) and Laura Sibony ("Fantasia", Grasset 2023). On Tuesday, November 5th. We will discuss a lot with the audience !

Poster for the talk: "L'intelligence artificielle : possibilité ou fatalité ?"

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

I'm deeply grateful to still see this book on the shelves. It's only been four months but so much happened meanwhile. Here at L'Arbre à lettres, in Paris near Bastille. #PhilSci #AIEthics

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

Argument against the idea that tech eases our lives : I feel like the phone numbers I had to remember before cell phones have been replaced by a tremendous amount of passwords that I actually have to reset most of the time because I can't remember them all. #Tech #PhilSci #Internet

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

A short state of the art on the biases in artificial intelligence (#LLM specifically), and so grateful it was on page one of Les Echos : "AI isn't finished with biases" #Ethics #PhilSci #GenAI

Article : "L'IA n'en a pa fini avec les biais"

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

Sorry but I cannot not think about Cronos (Goya) when I see the Pillars of the creation (Webb). #Rorschach

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

I can't believe this book made it to Vrin, the bookstore for #philosophy in front of Sorbonne University where I used to go as a student. This is such an honor ! #PhilSky #PhilSci

L'Intelligence artificielle, ses biais et les nôtres (Faubourg, 2024).

Street sign for place de la Sorbonne in Paris

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

Huge thanks to TV5 Monde, Mohamed Kaci and its team for the invitation to talk about "L'Intelligence artificielle, ses biais et les nôtres" (Faubourg, 2024). #ArtificialIntelligence #PhilSci #AIEthics www.tv5monde.com/tv/video/727...

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64' le monde en français - TV5MONDE

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

AI is taking an interpretative turn, mostly thanks to #CriticalAI and works on biases, but also because of imaging technologies and natural language processing as I argue in this piece (and like Don Ihde did on the imaging part). #NLP #Hermeneutics #PhilSky theconversation.com/lia-est-elle...

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L’IA est-elle capable d’interpréter ce qu’on lui demande ?

Depuis l’avènement de ChatGPT, la machine parle notre langue. Elle doit donc interpréter nos mots, et nous sa réponse. Comment analyser philosophiquement cette « interprétation artificielle » ?

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Rémy Demichelis @remyd.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

Fascinating roundtable on #AIEthics and humanism at Collège des Bernardins, in Paris (FR). I'll remember that one risk of #GenAI is to cancel the friction that creates alterity and how much we need to listen to others in the age of AI, when we listen only what we expect.

Roundtable "QUEL HUMANISME DANS NOTRE CONDITION NUMÉRIQUE ?", with Graziano LINGUA, Laurence DEVILLERS, Maurizio FERRARIS, Mélinée LE PRIOL, Paul TIGHE et Gemma SERRANO.

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