TThe advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not inherently problematic. Indeed, Generative AI (AI that can creatively generate outputs, like images, poems, and music) and Large Language Models…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
David W. Bates’s An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence enters at a moment when our understanding of the human is caught between two powerful but incompatible narratives. In the first…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
“Taking It Not at Face Value: A New Taxonomy for the Beliefs Acquired from Conversational AIs” (2024), written by Japanese scholar Shun Iizuka, deals with the question of trust and belief with regard to the way humans interact with conversational AIs such as ChatGPT. This question has since garnered increasing prominence with the public releases of reasoning models, with DeepSeek releasing their R1 model in January 2025 (Sharma 2025) and OpenAI responding with their o3-mini model just 10 ...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Iain D. Thomson’s Heidegger on Technology’s Danger and Promise in the Age of AI offers a concise yet profoundly insightful engagement with Martin Heidegger’s later philosophy of technology, demonstrating its urgent relevance for navigating our contemporary technological predicament, particularly the rise of Artificial Intelligence. Situated within the Cambridge Elements series on Heidegger, the book aims to move beyond the often polarized and superficial reactions to technological advan...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Abstract Can AI developers be held epistemically responsible for the processing of their AI systems when these systems are epistemically opaque? And can explainable AI (XAI) provide public…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Zombie movies express for us the horror that would take place if the dead did not go away so that the living could pursue existence unimpeded by the dead hand of history. The horror is an inversion of…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Author Information: Damien Williams, Virginia Tech, damienw7@vt.edu Williams, Damien. “Cultivating Technomoral Interrelations: A Review of Shannon Vallor’s Technology and the Virtues.| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Technology and language are good places to start when thinking about what makes humans unique, and between them, language triumphs. Language is a prerequisite for technology, science…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
In his review, Uwe Peters (2024) challenges my claim that we currently have no satisfactory social epistemology of AI-based science. He argues that the situation is not as dire as I take it to be…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
