Being on the TED stage has been one of the biggest thrills of my life. My TED talk is live! Please share widely! Predictions can be weapons of power, and we are being much too naive about them, from prediction markets to AI. #Prophecy www.ted.com/talks/cariss...

Beware the power of prediction

What do the story of Oedipus and your insurance premiums have in common? They are both driven by self-fulfilling prophecies. Philosopher and TED Fellow Carissa Véliz traces the hidden power of predict...

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New job reveal! Super excited!!!

View of my last ferry ride home from @cornelltech.bsky.social! Had a wonderful time during my postdoc with the Digital Life Initiative, and excited for the next stage of my career!

Hi Bluesky! 👋 We’re the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab, based at the Uehiro Oxford Institute. We use experimental philosophy and moral psychology methods to study morality, with the aim of contributing to normative and philosophical debates in ethics. Follow us to keep up with our work!

In November, I had a great time talking with Ben Byford about artificial moral agency for the Machine Ethics Podcast. The episode is now out: www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/mora...

Moral Agents with Jen Semler - Machine Ethics Podcast

This month we chatted in-person with Jen Semler. We chatted about what is AI? Philosophers and engineer collboartions, businesses working with ethicists, machine ethics and AMAs, what makes a moral ag...

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And now, I'm thrilled to be starting a postdoc at Cornell Tech as part of the Digital Life Initiative!

Officially Dr. Semler! Graduated from Oxford with a DPhil (PhD) in Philosophy for my dissertation "On Artificial Moral Agency"! Special thanks to my wonderful supervisors @carissaveliz.bsky.social and Alison Hills; examiners Roger Crisp and David Shoemaker; and mentors, friends, and family.

Can we teach ethics to machines? And if we can, should we? Join @jensemler.bsky.social online on Wednesday 23rd to find out more... uehiro.web.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-eth... #Bitesize #ethics #AI #onlineeducation #PhilosophyMatters

I'm also excited to share that another paper of mine, co-authored with Helena Ward and Rhys Southan, "A Timing Problem for Instrumental Convergence," is out in Philosophical Studies! doi.org/10.1007/s110...

A timing problem for instrumental convergence - Philosophical Studies

Those who worry about a superintelligent AI destroying humanity often appeal to the instrumental convergence thesis—the claim that even if we don’t know what a superintelligence’s ultimate goals will ...

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I'm so excited to share that the first paper from my dissertation, "Moral Agency without Consciousness," is now out at the Canadian Journal of Philosophy! doi.org/10.1017/can....