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Shannon Vallor
AI ethicist and philosopher, University of Edinburgh
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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Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. nytimes.com
Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search | WIRED wired.com
I’m a Professional Fact-Checker. AI Is Wrong More Often Than You Think | WIRED wired.com
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[2605.07723] LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations arxiv.org
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ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop 404media.co
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I Profile Celebrities for a Living. Nothing Prepared Me for Tilly Norwood. nytimes.com
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com
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I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI | WIRED wired.com
Someone Finally Wants to Hire Philosophers theatlantic.com
Unsettling dance piece explores how AI is warping human relationships newscientist.com
My A.I. Boyfriend Won’t Let Me Watch Women’s Basketball newyorker.com
Articles & links
Wired is unaware of the extent to which I can be motivated by moral outrage. And spite. A lot of spite.
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In which I give AI chatbots a fact checking test and find them sorely wanting. My latest for WIRED.
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Two new facts stand out: 1. 85% of hallucinated citations in preprints are also in the subsequent journal version (thanks, peer review!) 2. Fake cites more likely to use the names of (male) scholars who are already highly cited, creating a fake-citation Matthew effect. arxiv.o…
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ArXiv is going to ban researchers for a year if they are caught submitting AI slop. ArXiv told us it's a one strike rule: do it once, you're out. www.404media.co/new-arxiv-ru...
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NYT: [endless stream of articles dehumanizing and demeaning trans people, attacking our health care, raising "concerns" about our civil rights (believing we have too many of them), etc.] Also NYT: This computer is a LADY! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/m...
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“The term deepfake traditionally refers to photos, audio, and video, but when it comes to discussions of consciousness, we need to regard text as a deepfake medium as well.” www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
This is horrible reading, and also wonderful reading, because its seething rage is so undeniably human
This is really badly researched. Google hired me in 2018. And I wasn’t even the first.
I just had one of the purest joys of my life being present for this performed at the Royal Ballet and Opera SHIFT festival last night, and to have a conversation with Alexander onstage afterward. I didn’t know what to expect, but it was transcendent. It’s an honour to have pla…
LOL "I’ve attempted to contact his programmers, but the only responses I get are that my call is important to them, that the menu options have changed, and that nobody human or electronic is available right now as all the agents are out fracking for fun or negging baby seals."
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Recent commentary
I'm rereading an old paper of mine from 2017 ('AI and the Automation of Wisdom') and I'm having one of these moments
Me after I’ve turned off the unwanted AI summaries
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
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
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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