New paper with Dan Burnston at @tulaneu.bsky.social
Part of a special issue on "Representation in the Neurosciences and AI" in Philosophy & the Mind Sciences
An alternative to encoding for thinking about neural representation.
philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...
A fantastic day at the the Royal Irish Academy yesterday! We're raising awareness and encouraging applications to the #ListerPrize which is open to researchers from across the island of Ireland! Application to the 2027 Prize opens in July.
Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons. www.wired.com/story/openai...
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons.
One month out from @fens.org
Forum 2026 in Barcelona 🇪🇸🇪🇺🧠
We are looking forward to joining our colleagues and collaborators, and sharing our work with the neuroscience community.
#FENS2026
fensforum.org/scientific-p...
Edited by Mark Sprevak and Francis Fallon as part of the Representations: Past, Present and Future (RPPF) project at @tcddublin.bsky.social
Representation: Past, Present and Future - Trinity College Dublin share.google/KY979IXZ7XWw...
this is what consequential journalism looks like
a neural network is not an 'actress,' it is not the type of entity that 'feels' or 'wants'. this fetishisation of ai products, a cause of several deaths and harms – partly due to anthropomorphic design – is not only doing corporate pr, it is also dangerous
The Irish Times
Ireland is putting its international reputation for research at risk – The Irish Times share.google/BTIyrLiXzeJc...
@irishtimes.com
Our writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner interviewed Tilly Norwood, a computer-generated character described as “the world’s first A.I. actress.” She left exhausted. “It was the feeling of being at a computer all day. It was a dehydration of human interaction,” Brodesser-Akner writes.
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