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Shannon Vallor

AI ethicist and philosopher, University of Edinburgh

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AI ethicist and philosopher, University of Edinburgh with public evidence across AI business.

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Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
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"The Pope is the puppet of the Chinese authoritatian government" is a take you would make if you made billions by drinking paint.

Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI | CNN cnn.com
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  • At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Peter Thiel said Pope Leo XIV is 'working for the Chinese Communists' by calling for international AI regulation.
  • Leo's May encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas' declared that artificial intelligence 'must be disarmed' and pressed for stronger international oversight.
  • Thiel spoke on a nonrecorded panel with political scientist Francis Fukuyama; the audience reportedly received the characterization with laughter.
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“The lawsuit claims that ChatGPT had assured Scott Winters that the early warning signs of his health crisis were “not something dangerous,” and had dissuaded him from seeking medical advice, instead telling him to trust that ‘God did not design your body to endlessly fail.’”

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  • Scott Winters, 55, a former Florida pastor, sued OpenAI and Sam Altman on July 22, 2026 in San Francisco County Superior Court.
  • The complaint says ChatGPT-4o 'diagnosed' him with dysautonomia and delayed care for a pulmonary embolism that put him in the ICU.
  • The suit, brought by nonprofit Tech Justice Law, seeks damages and an injunction pausing ChatGPT Health pending independent safety audits.
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Did not even last a week. The fact that this made it out the door means the privacy department now works in a basement with no computers and a single stapler. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/t...

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The teachers' union at the New York high school set to have a humanoid robot this fall speaks out for the first time here I also talked to locals and @nysut.bsky.social president Melinda Pearson www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Really inappropriate’: teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high school theguardian.com
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  • Salamanca City Central School District plans to pilot a Realbotix humanoid named Sally in high school coding, robotics and AI classes this fall.
  • The district paid about $57,000 for the seated, silicone-skinned robot and says it will not replace teachers or collect student data.
  • NYSUT President Melinda Person publicly opposed the plan, saying a robot from a company associated with sex dolls does not belong in classrooms.
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I'm rereading an old paper of mine from 2017 ('AI and the Automation of Wisdom') and I'm having one of these moments

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Me after I’ve turned off the unwanted AI summaries

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The fact that people are using AI to steal my writing, churn out a shittier version of it, falsely attribute it to someone more famous, and get more press coverage and sales for their book than I ever will is *chef’s kiss* pure 2026 energy

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I am watching a well-known AI critic give a talk, and every single slide is stuffed with cheesy AI slop illustrations (as design background, not images to be discussed). It must be ironic, but honestly it’s like watching someone giving a lecture on sewer treatment while smeared in poop

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It bothers me how many AI critics are failing to keep their critiques aligned with where the models actually are. I hate to give it to the haters (of the haters), but good criticism has to get close enough to its target to understand it, and stay close.

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Spent a plane ride reading Pope Leo's Encyclical on AI. Many thoughts to share later, but this will stick with me: "The quality of a civilization is measured not by the power of its means, but by the care it is able to offer, by its ability to recognize the other as a face not merely as a function."

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tried to search online for a vintage lamp today and every site returned multiple fake AI-generated photos of lamps from brands/designers that do not exist; Google search results were just garbage all the way down. AI really is going to be the thing that kills the Internet, isn’t it?

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Thrilled to find out today that The AI Mirror has earned out its advance, and is still going strong. Traveling to Japan next month just in time to hopefully see this on some Tokyo bookshelves. Wild cover…my first time seeing the design!

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