The Wanderer. WANDERER is an interactive web project exploring the role of memory creation as a starting point for the emergence of sentient AI. The project was developed by
Kristina Pulejkova . based on a series of discussion we had on consciousness and AI.
Echoes. Echoes is a documentary short in which I discuss the increasing use of Artificial Intelligence in our society, particularly focusing on its effect on Democracy.
Monthly columns on `What's hot in argumentation' to a monthly online philosophy gazette
called The Reasoner.. The June 2017 issue contains an overview of argumentation
that sets the scene for future columns.
Podcast interview on ethical issues relating to AI, including surveillance capitalism, superintelligence, and the
ethics of AIs designed to invite human ascription of consciousness to machines. (Podcast #16) .
To plug in or plug out? That is the question. Presentation at the 2016 Pint of Science
Festival,
on the dangers of AI and why we need machines to reason and debate about moral and ethical issues to help ensure dangers are averted.
Co-organiser of workshop entitled
Computers and Minds
held in Edinburgh on
21 November 2014. The workshop was co-organised with the Institute of Philosophy, under the aegis
of the Human Mind Project (see page 20 of the report on the project), and
brought together academics (Aaron Sloman, Anil Seth, Francis Egan and Murray Shanahan) working on state of the art of research at the interface of
philosophy of mind, computational neuroscience, robotics and artificial intelligence. The workshop was followed by a public event at which Andy Clark and
Sethu Vijayakumar gave presentation.
Interview for Radio 4 series Something Understood
on the topic of artificial souls