New links…
- “It may well be that the models were loose for about a week before OpenAI realized that they were the ones attacking” — an autonomous AI’s recent escape from its sandbox to hack another site shows the need for better AI guardrails
- “Every month, we’ll read a work of classic fashion philosophy and talk about how it applies to what we wear today” — Derek Guy, a popular, witty, and knowledgeable menswear writer, has started a philosophy podcast with radio producer Avery Trufelman
- “They made an exact replica of my wife…” — “Exact Replica”, by Joshua Seigal, poet and former philosophy student
- “A company named Word Unscrambler… recently released the list of the most searched word definitions by state“ — one state had “philosophy” as its most-searched word. Can you guess which?
- “Of greatest concern is… constitutive de-skilling, the erosion of the capacities that make us human in the first place” — Kwame Anthony Appiah on Mill, autonomy, and AI, in the first issue of The Humanist Review of AI
- Philosophy, the journal, celebrates its 100 years of publication with a special issue on Bernard Williams’s “Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline”, which it published 25 years ago — several of the pieces are open-access
- “You don’t know jack diddly doo-doo about what red really is” — tough talk about color perception, from Pete Mandik
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