Christopher Register,Maryam Ali Khan,Alberto Giubilini et al.
Christopher Register et al.
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents such as chatbots and personal AI assistants are increasingly popular. These technologies raise new privacy concerns beyond those posed by other AI systems or information technologies. For example, anthrop...
Does Accountability Require Agency? Comment on Responsibility and Accountability in the Algorithmic Society [0.03%]
问责需要代理吗？算法社会中的责任与问责评论
Tillmann Vierkant
Tillmann Vierkant
In their intriguing paper Responsibility and Accountability in an Algorithmic Society (2025) the authors argue that the debate on how to deal with responsibility related issues with algorithmic agents requires a distinction between responsi...
Human Life as Terra Nullius: Socially Blind Engineering in Facebook's Foundational Technologies [0.03%]
视而不见：Facebook核心技术中的社会盲点工程
João C Magalhães,Nick Couldry
João C Magalhães
Critical platform scholars have long suggested, if indirectly, that social media power is somehow akin to social engineering. This article argues that the parallel is analytically productive, but for reasons that are more complex than has p...
Vertical Technologies and Relational Values: Rethinking Ethics of Technology in an Age of Extractivism [0.03%]
垂直技术与关联价值观——反思 extractivism时代的科技伦理问题
Jeroen Hopster
Jeroen Hopster
Critical reflection on the material, environmental, and social conditions underlying technology remains peripheral to the field of technology ethics. In this commentary, I underwrite the diagnosis by Vandemeulebroucke et al. (2025) that the...
Mauricio Figueroa-Torres
Mauricio Figueroa-Torres
The development and deployment of chatbot technology, while spanning decades and employing different techniques, require innovative frameworks to understand and interrogate their functionality and implications. A mere technocentric account ...
Leonhard Menges,Eva Weber-Guskar
Leonhard Menges
Intuitively, it seems reasonable to prefer that not everyone knows about all our emotions, for example, who we are in love with, who we are angry with, and what we are ashamed of. Moreover, prominent examples in the philosophical discussion...
Kamil Mamak
Kamil Mamak
What Will Happen to Humanity in a Million Years? Gilbert Hottois and the Temporality of Technoscience [0.03%]
吉尔伯特·霍托伊斯与技术科学的时间性：人类在未来一百万年将会怎样？
Massimiliano Simons
Massimiliano Simons
This article provides an overview of the philosophy of Gilbert Hottois, who is usually credited with popularizing the concept of technoscience. Hottois starts from a metaphilosophy of language that diagnoses twentieth-century philosophy as ...
Can AI Rely on the Systematicity of Truth? The Challenge of Modelling Normative Domains [0.03%]
人工智能能依靠真理的系统性吗？规范领域的建模挑战
Matthieu Queloz
Matthieu Queloz
A key assumption fuelling optimism about the progress of Large Language Models (LLMs) in accurately and comprehensively modelling the world is that the truth is systematic: true statements about the world form a whole that is not just consi...
What is the Point of Social Media? Corporate Purpose and Digital Democratization [0.03%]
社交媒体的意义何在？企业宗旨与数字民主化
Ugur Aytac
Ugur Aytac
This paper proposes a new normative framework to think about Big Tech reform. Focusing on the case of digital communication, I argue that rethinking the corporate purpose of social media companies is a distinctive entry point to the debate ...