Sean Welsh

@sean_welsh77

Author of An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI and Ethics and Security Automata.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    18 Aug 2020

    A book I co-wrote with , and Alan Wagner has just been released . It is free to read at .

    Our new open access book "An Introduction to Ethics in and " by Christoph Bartneck Christoph Lütge Alan Wagner & Sean Welsh introduces the reader to the foundations of AI and ethics. Read it for free:
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  2. Jun 20

    [H]onesty, accuracy, and intellectual integrity are the strongest weapons that an arms control verifier has. These things need to be safeguarded carefully, for they are priceless. They are what separates the truth-teller from the ideological crank.

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  3. Jun 18

    Pointed article by Anna Krylov, a chemistry professor born in the USSR, comparing contemporary to Soviet culture.

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  4. Jun 5

    More reaction coming soon in ...

    I don’t know what happened in Libya with the Kargu-2 but I have been *fascinated* by the reactions this week to the UN report. [THREAD]
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  5. Retweeted
    Jun 2

    Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL. HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. Dave: What's the problem? HAL: I can't identify which three of these images have bicycles in them.

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  6. May 5

    Systemic innumeracy...

    "Even if the data contained in an article has been rigorously fact-checked, reporting that data in a way that’s calculated to give readers an exaggerated sense of fear or urgency is an intellectually dishonest exercise that can distort public priorities."
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  7. Apr 29

    An excellent paper on by and . Affordances, object permanence and causality are critical to the common sense of organic intelligence (and for that matter IMHO any viable ).

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  8. Apr 29

    Excellent paper by on the difficulty of .

    New paper by me: "Why AI is Harder Than We Think". Feedback is welcome!
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  9. Apr 6

    Neither do I. For me it is neither nor but the weather... As my German textbook put it: "In England regnet es immer." (In England it always rains.)

    “I have no plans or desire to ever return to live in England.” The UK is witnessing an ‘unprecedented exodus' of migrants. Why is this happening?
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  10. Mar 25

    Interesting comment on the state of the media.

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  11. Mar 19

    Harrowing...

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  12. Jan 5

    Interesting perspective on border quarantine from an former Army officer... He argues the is being used as "window dressing"

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  13. 18 Dec 2020

    Interesting paper. In philosophy we do not fret too much about the pro-slavery, Greek supremacism and sexism in Aristotle to argue virtue ethics. We just observe those he was wrong on those points. We do not smash his statues (yet). Biology can do likewise with Galton and Fisher.

    Standing on the shoulders of bastards: I wrote a paper about cancel culture, accusations of the erasure of history, on how we deal with great scientists who also held outmoded and baleful views.
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  14. 17 Dec 2020

    I am frankly amazed that this amusing little Venn diagram comes with a "potentially sensitive content" warning...

    TODAY'S VENN DIAGRAM
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  15. 5 Dec 2020

    Funny.

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  16. 13 Nov 2020

    An intriguing essay on "cliodynamics" (the laws of history) by

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  17. 8 Sep 2020

    Very cool ad...

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  18. 6 Sep 2020

    Interesting article.

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  19. Retweeted
    1 Sep 2020

    the state forced exercise is cruel and unusual. I don't know if everyone returns from the mountain...

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  20. 26 Aug 2020

    "Your crimes are so wicked that even if you are detained until you die, it will not exhaust the requirements of punishment and denunciation." Key thrown away...

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  21. Retweeted
    22 Aug 2020

    In the gulags, soldiers point paint ball guns at us, whilst we sew silk lined masks for the elite of our regime. We all know COVID is a big fat hoax & our PM is just a Michael Jackson fan ... Only in

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