Simon Coghlan

Philosopher/ethicist, veterinarian
Senior Research Fellow: Digital Ethics
Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, Computing and Information Systems, Uni of Melbourne

[The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand @ConversationEDU]

Sometimes criticism of vets is unfair – and harmful. But a new book urges us to reflect deeply on ethics in veterinary services. @CoghSimon @unimelb https://t.co/AU459xhuWN

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Veterinarians are sometimes ethically criticised for over-servicing, over-charging, and ending animal lives too early or too late.

In this book review for The Conversation, I explore these issues. #Vetmed #AnimalEthics #VetEthics #Bioethics

https://t.co/WVAu6iU7wI

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Should AI ethics guidelines include animals? They don't (usually) but they should, we argue in this new paper: #AIethics #animalethics ......https://t.co/bxAQI4ISPv

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Falling for AI fakes is can be bad. Wrongfully accusing people of using AI can be a problem too. @ConversationEDU @lucysparrowdrag Our Conversation article on this is out today: https://t.co/0Dy22ZiVHi

[The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand @ConversationEDU]

Even if you suspect a fake, here's what to consider before accusing someone of using AI to create art, music or writing. @CoghSimon @unimelb https://t.co/2wgIgP86ai

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Can animals have privacy? What could that mean, and how might digital technology affect it? My short reply piece with with Adam Cardilini explores these questions.
https://t.co/CECAydV1HE

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My PhD student Stella Yuan has a paper OUT in CHI on ethics of care, tech, and older adults in aged care
https://t.co/khripcPDVe

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New paper on animal dignity 🫏 in Philosophy Compass. Do animals have dignity? What does that mean for how we should treat them?
I outline four possible types: dignity related to inherent worth, flourishing nature, social status, and honour.

https://t.co/hraneqdzHU

[Simon Coghlan @CoghSimon]

@DarrinADurant @David_Gunkel ...partly because 'bullshit' also has an output-centered meaning and partly because the metaphor of 'indifference to truth' is becoming very stretched

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Is ChatGPT 'bullshit'? It's...complicated. It was a pleasure to work with David Gunkel on our paper,
'Cut the Crap', just out!
@David_Gunkel
https://t.co/v0XEA5TJEi

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@DarrinADurant @David_Gunkel Say (thought experiment) an LLM has true outputs 90% or 99% of time...

Then the insistence that this LLM is a bullshit machine that only produces bullshit seems a bit off to me...

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@DarrinADurant @David_Gunkel How much truth an LLM produces seems an empirical question. One of our thoughts was that claiming ChatGPT is a bullshit machine producing nothing but bullshit is misleading—since some/many of its outputs are accurate, despite its obvious failures

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@DarrinADurant @David_Gunkel Cheers. The main point for me here is that while the liar is directed to untruth, and the truth-teller to truth, the (Frankfurtian) bullshitter is directed to neither - untruth/truth are 'equally' on a level, and thus they may come out with either

[Simon Coghlan @CoghSimon]

@DarrinADurant Thanks Darrin :)

[David J. Gunkel @David_Gunkel]

💩 Cut the Crap: A Critical Response to 'ChatGPT is Bullshit.' New #OpenAccess article co-authored with @CoghSimon and published in "Ethics and Information Technology"

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What makes a good search engine? These 4 models can help you use search in the age of AI https://t.co/AdSAzyPMWN via @ConversationEDU

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What is an ethically good search engine? Our new paper looks at this @damiano10
https://t.co/JEQ0VwZM2H

[Damiano Spina 🦋@damianospina.com @damiano10]

Our article "Control Search Rankings, Control the World: What is a Good Search Engine?" has now been published as #OpenAccess at the Springer's AI and Ethics journal:
https://t.co/B4xfrddS5y

[Marc Bekoff @MarcBekoff]

Compassionate conservation in practice: A values-driven, interdisciplinary, pluralistic, and deliberative community
https://t.co/vBuTIuvrom

[Christine Parker @prof_christine]

AI doesn’t just impact. Humans, also non-humans including animals. https://t.co/Gfav7kykxB