Beautiful.

In addition to conceptualizing AI and offering a regulatory framework, the paper discusses the critical components of attention, arguing that attention requires interests. "Interests" have gone out of fashion in philosophy of mind, but we make the case for their centrality. The paper is open access!

In hyping up the potential future capacities of AI we are losing track of what it means for us now, losing the chance to best make use of its power. Should AI companies be able to extract from the collective without compensation? Should users be able to use the collective without acknowledgement?...

In the paper Carlos and I begin to think through how to tackle the regulation problem, and suggest using existing corporate law, both to regulate the interface between user/AI and to regulate the impact on the public. Our hope is that this paper helps shift away from AI as "agent"/"conscious"/etc...

Can AI direct its own attention? No. Does it have standalone intelligence? Also no. But it is a powerful and useful tool so long as we regulate it appropriately. Once we recognize it as a collective involving users, developers, and creators of training data, we can correctly assign responsibility...

Beautiful! Sounds like a relaxing warm weather sea, though, and I prefer the cold ones ☁️

If you send me an email I can share the handout I used at least. You would have to contact Susanna for her notes, if interested.

This particular set of talks was about collective attention, and didn’t connect cleanly with our respective work on individual perception. But, yes, nice when recordings are available. Not in this case, but that allowed us all to be comfortable presenting work in progress.

Well, I am more interested in the “subject,” and Susanna more in the content, but I am not sure it makes sense to categorize in this way (intentionality vs magical residue). Your original post is interesting, and I am sympathetic to it, but I’m not sure if Susanna would be.

Our spontaneous collective responses, if possible

I argued in that talk that collective attention on social media is currently spontaneous, and rarely if ever controlled. How can we move the needle? I’m working on trying to answer that! One provocative idea: we should intentionally limit our exposure to other perspectives. #philsky

Incredible. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/11195/1/Mind...

People really brought positive energy and a creative spirit to this protest in a small town in a purple part of the state

(From this www.reddit.com/r/funnygifs/...)