Tech companies have long claimed that personal agents could be the future of how we interact with computers – and now they are desperately trying to make them adorable

A realist view of artificial intelligence is one that holds that artificial systems can exhibit genuine cognitive powers of one sort or another. In this paper, I examine the further question of whe...

Social robots and the intentional stance - Volume 46

The huge popularity of AI chatbots can be explained by their accepted role as fictional characters in people’s lives – in the same way as those found in films, TV and books, a new study

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Talkative artificial systems can sustain a realistic impression of intelligent agency, by generating quick, fluent, and context-sensitive strings of text in response to human input. Realism about AI t...

A realist view of artificial intelligence is one that holds that artificial systems can exhibit genuine cognitive powers of one sort or another. In this paper, I examine the further question of whe...

BUMP is a €1.2m ERC-funded project, hosted by the University of Southampton and led by Elselijn Kingma.

"Feral" gossip spread via AI bots is likely to become more frequent and pervasive, causing reputational damage and shame, humiliation, anxiety, and distress, researchers have warned.

Project descriptionThe University of Exeter is offering up to three fully funded AHRC doctoral studentships and training and development opportunities across a range of the AHRC’s disciplines for cand...

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<p><span>The article introduces the concept of “semantic pareidolia” - our tendency to attribute consciousness, intelligence, and emotions to AI systems that la

The Human Genomics without Racism (HUGERA) project brings together geneticists, philosophers, and social scientists to create tools for an ethically sound science of human variation. Latest News

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