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Sven Nyholm
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Professor of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, LMU Munich.

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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · 1d
Great talk by Carissa Veliz (see below):
carissaveliz.bsky.social Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 1d
Delighted to share this TEDxGeneva talk! The more I study the digital, the more I'm in awe of the richness and primacy of the analogue world. Don't forget that life is analogue, and all things digital depend on and are but a ghost of the analogue. #AIEthics

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvJe...
The power of analogue | Carissa Veliz | TEDxGeneva
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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · 1d
Fantastic talk Carissa! 👏

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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 1d
Delighted to share this TEDxGeneva talk! The more I study the digital, the more I'm in awe of the richness and primacy of the analogue world. Don't forget that life is analogue, and all things digital depend on and are but a ghost of the analogue. #AIEthics

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvJe...
The power of analogue | Carissa Veliz | TEDxGeneva
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · 2d
Thanks for having me!

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 2d
Thanks @svennyholm.bsky.social for speaking to my Science & Ethics of Intelligent Technology Policy course @hertieschool.bsky.social #AIEthics
Goodie DeepMind Build Al responsibly to benefit humanity Al has the potential to be one of the most important and beneficial technologies ever invented Our vision for the future of AGI OpenAI Then we went to a Christmas market

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LMU Munich Philosophy Faculty @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social · 2d
The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy is hiring two post-doctoral researchers to work on a project on the logic of reasons, under the supervision of Professor Hannes Leitgeb, Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language. More info below: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7... #postdoc #philosophy
Postdoctoral Fellow (m/f/x)
job-portal.lmu.de

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Paul Harland @pabloredux.bsky.social · 10d
Happening today in Munich with @munichcenterml.bsky.social: "Al Agents in Science: Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications", featuring short talks by @svennyholm.bsky.social & Benjamin Lange, @helen-alber.bsky.social and others: hfph.de/hochschule/v...
MCML x CReAITech PhD Workshop - Hochschule für Philosophie München
Das Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) und das Center for Responsible AI Technologies (CReAITech) laden herzlich zum PhD-Workshop „KI-Agenten in der Wissenschaft: Ethische, rechtliche und gesel...
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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · 11d
New article by my PhD student Dilin Gong: "Closing the responsibility gap: allocating responsibility according to prerequisite control and expectations for personal benefits". In Ethics and Information Technology: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #aiethics Congratulations Dilin!
Closing the responsibility gap: allocating responsibility according to prerequisite control and expectations for personal benefits - Ethics and Information Technology
Some authors argue that responsibility gaps can open up when no one has sufficient control over negative outcomes. With recent developments in Artificial Intelligence, the responsibility gap is thought to have grown since AI technologies can produce negative outcomes over which people do not have sufficient control. This paper aims to close the responsibility gap by recommending allocating responsibility according to a strategy constituted by two conditions: in scenarios where no one seems to be responsible for negative outcomes, responsibility should be primarily allocated to people who have (1) intentionally and voluntarily exercised prerequisite control that causally makes the current situation uncontrolled, and (2) expected personal benefits when exercising the prerequisite control. Theoretically speaking, every case of the responsibility gap contains at least one agent meeting these two conditions, and the responsibility gap could thus be closed.
link.springer.com

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Paul Harland @pabloredux.bsky.social · 12d
The Ethics (and History) of Defining Artificial Intelligence www.linkedin.com/posts/sabina... with @svennyholm.bsky.social and @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social
#ai | Sabina Leonelli
Looking forward to hosting Sven Nyholm and his group later today, for what will no doubt be an eye-opening discussion of #AI
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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · Nov 12
Never too late! 😃

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LMU Munich Philosophy Faculty @lmuphilosophy.bsky.social · Nov 10
Coming up at LMU Munich: workshop on AI & consciousness, organized by Prof. Sven Nyholm (@svennyholm.bsky.social) & colleagues, on Nov 21. Speakers include Prof. Joanna Bryson (@j2bryson.bsky.social) & Prof. Tobias Schlicht (Bochum). Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #aiethics
AI & Consciousness at LMU
Date: November 21st, 2025 (09:30 until 17:30) Location: LMU München, Leopoldstraße 13, 80802 München, Room 2102. Please register until 18th of November 2025.
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N. Heinzelmann @nheinzelmann.bsky.social · Nov 8
Join us for a talk by @svennyholm.bsky.social (LMU): "Moral Principles for Human-Human Interaction, Human-AI Interaction, and AI-AI Interaction"

Mathematikon (Lecture Hall), Heidelberg
Wednesday, 12 November, 6pm
Details:
www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/veranstal...
Moral Principles for Human-Human Interaction, Human-AI Interaction, and AI-AI Interaction - Universität Heidelberg
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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · Oct 31
Today I received a physical copy of the Korean translation of my book This is Technology Ethics. Thanks to Yongwoo Yi for bringing it to me all the way from South Korea! Thanks again, most of all, to Junsik Yoon and Joseph HB Park for translating the book! #AIEthics #philosophy

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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · Oct 20
New publication: "Is Meaningful Human Control Over Personalised AI Assistants Possible? Ethical Design Requirements for The New Generation of Artificially Intelligent Agents", by Sietze Kuilman, me, Stefan Buijsman & Luciano Cavalcante Siebert: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #aiethics #philosophy
Is Meaningful Human Control Over Personalised AI Assistants Possible? Ethical Design Requirements for The New Generation of Artificially Intelligent Agents - Philosophy & Technology
Recently, several large tech companies have pushed the notion of AI assistants into the public debate. These envisioned agents are intended to far outshine current systems, as they are intended to be ...
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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · Oct 20
News coverage of OpenAI's recently announced, forthcoming updated functioning w/ respect to the types of conversations enabled - from France 24 - featuring some commentary by me, Kate Devlin (@drkatedevlin.bsky.social), & other AI ethics researchers:
www.france24.com/en/technolog... #aiethics
Deus sex machina: What are the consequences of turning ChatGPT into a sex-line?
OpenAI founder Sam Altman has announced that ChatGPT will from December be able to engage in erotic conversations with its users. It’s a decision with barely-disguised commercial motives – and one tha...
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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · Oct 15
Looks like a lovely place, though!

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · Oct 9
I'm more than halfway through this interesting #podcast series on technology ethics, from my colleague Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social and John Danaher. Highly recommended!

technologyethicspod.wordpress.com

#ethics #aiethics #technology #philsky
Technology Ethics Podcast
A podcast-based introduction to the philosophy and ethics of technology
technologyethicspod.wordpress.com

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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · Oct 6
New book review, by Ratan Sarkar, of "Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies" (Open Publishers 2023), which was co-edited by me and several others in the ESDIT research project @esdit.bsky.social: jeet.ieet.org/index.php/ho...

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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · Oct 6
Out now: "Ethik der KI: eine Philosophische Perspektive" - a transcript from a lecture I recently gave at an interdisciplinary event organized by the German Lutheran Diaconia organization "midi" - in *Diakonie reflektiert – Band 3* (ed. Christian Albrecht):
www.mi-di.de/media/pages/... #aiethics

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · Oct 5
Opening here at the LMU: a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion. The position combines research in philosophy with a strong focus on didactics.

Application deadline: 15 November 2025

job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...
Professorship (W2) of Philosophy Education
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Sven Nyholm @svennyholm.bsky.social · Oct 3
Out now: *The Ethics of Behavior Change Technologies*, edited by Joel Anderson, Lily Frank & Andreas Spahn, featuring "Control, personal autonomy and behaviour change technologies", by me: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de... #philosophy #technologyethics #aiethics