Personal avatars and Dementia: New paper in Philosophy and Technology that seeks to build on the research of those working on the ethics of ghostbots/ deathbots/ continuing bond bots and apply it to dementia care.
🗞️ In her latest paper, @paulasweeneyphilos explores the use of personal avatar technology to help with feelings of loss when a loved one has an illness that brings substantial cognitive change.
https://t.co/MP1BpABabK
📰 Check out our @psweeneyphilos's latest paper, 'Persons, Unique Value and Avatars', now out in Minds and Machines, in which she explores whether personal avatars / digital duplicates might undermine the value humans hold by virtue of their uniqueness.
https://t.co/I9puvBQJKq
“Where no proxy has gone before…”. I will continue my painfully difficult exploration of how avatars will undermine the value of human uniqueness despite being proxies. The inaugural event of Mihaela Constantinescu’s ERC project ❤️https://t.co/bJL50ZJkjw
My discussion of @JohnDanaher and @SvenNyholm's paper on Digital Duplicates and Scarcity is now out in Philosophy and Technology (available open access). https://t.co/CCJiLMSpl0
Would you like to do a fully-funded PhD with me @AstonUniversity@AstonLawSchool ? Topic: AI and the Post-Mortem: Shaping Legal Frameworks for Digital Remains, international fees covered too! Please get in touch and apply by 3 June here https://t.co/xsMjYfKrZV
We are currently looking for a part-time lecturer in Logic and Metaphysics to provide a teaching replacement for Dr. Aaron Cotnoir and Prof. Franz Berto, who have their teaching duties reduced until December 31st, 2028. For more info see below: https://t.co/ANX8tRV5tU
Excited to be in Aberdeen this weekend at this workshop on the Philosophy of Avatars. Thank you to @psweeneyphilos for organising!
Will present how time spent playing as an avatar/character can lead to our adopting their outlook and traits, and some moral concerns that result.
We're hiring again! Applications are sought for a Research Fellow (postdoc) on @Franz_Berto 's 4-year Leverhulme funded project ‘What if…? Knowing by imagining (WIKI). The Logic and Rationality of Imagination’. Deadline 30th of April. Further info here: https://t.co/Jd06fYzGry