Philosopher/Cognitive Scientist at University of Heidelberg. Interested deceptive communication, morality, AI, open science and stuff.
Joined June 2012
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Alex Wiegmann retweeted
How does “meaningful human control” (EU AI Act, GDPR) shape blame when AI messes up?
3 experiments (N=1,798) w/ R. Reimann:
(i) People blame the AI itself a lot
(ii) The human in/on the loop becomes a “liability sponge”
(iii) Human IN vs. ON the loop: no difference
Alex Wiegmann retweeted
My recent book AI and Consciousness: A Skeptical Overview is free online today and tomorrow (through Oct 19, presumably UK time). I don't think the hard copy is available yet. Get it while it's free!
cambridge.org/core/elements/…
Alex Wiegmann retweeted
🔬 We're hiring a postdoc within the ERC project COST-X (Uni of Turin).
📋 Duration: 2+1 years
🎓 PhD: philosophy/linguistics/cogsci
🗓️ Start: Jan 2027
⏳ Deadline: 15 Nov 2026
👉 Apply by sending CV + research statement at [email protected]
ℹ️ nerimarsili.com/costx.html
Alex Wiegmann retweeted
Quick update on the X-Phi blog: To stay up to date on what’s hot in the world of experimental philosophy, you can now get our posts by email! xphi.net/newsletter/ #experimentalphilosophy #xphi #philosophy
Alex Wiegmann retweeted
The current volume is out and it is growing!
We published four new articles on our website. By (among others) @simondgoldstein, @ben_levinstein, @paolomonti_ @branford_jason @johnfsymons! Check out other papers by @dcshiller, M. Chirimuuta, Björn Lundgren, Nancy Abigail Nuñez Hernández, & Christine Susienka
Today!
Very happy to invite you to the fourth online talk in our series. Next Thursday, 2nd July, 4pm CET, Jonathan Weinberg. Everyone welcome!
Link: uzh.zoom.us/j/62650221696?pw…
Meeting-ID: 626 5022 1696
Passcode: 561538
Zoom:
ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/…
Meeting-ID: 687 3663 1935
Passwort: 127156
Alex Wiegmann retweeted
Is happiness a morally charged concept? Ceteris paribus, is the saint happier than the sinner? Diverging from the great work by @phillipsjs and @xphilosopher, @DanHaybron and I find that morality plays no role in the concept of happiness. OA in AJP: h1.nu/1r82v
Alex Wiegmann retweeted
🚨@xphijournal has published its first article!🎊
🧚"Is an Intelligent Machine a Moral Machine?" 🤖
by Simon Myers and Jim A.C. Everett
Check this out!👀
Link in the replies🔽
Alex Wiegmann retweeted
Very happy to invite you to the third online talk in our series. Next Thursday, 11th June, 4pm CET, Pascale Willemsen and Lucien Baumgartner. Everyone welcome!
Link: uzh.zoom.us/j/65107786432?pw…
Meeting-ID: 651 0778 6432
Kenncode: 235823
Alex Wiegmann retweeted
🧨We're hosting this lovely (hybrid!) workshop on 💫PRAISE💫 already this Wednesday (27 May) and Thursday (28 May). Amazing line-up!
Zoom-link in replies🔽
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Happening next week!
Experimental Philosophy in China: Webinar Series – Session 1, An Introduction to Experimental Philosophy
Time: 9:00 AM, May 28 (Thursday), Beijing Time (UTC+8)
Tencent Meeting (VooV Meeting) ID: 772-802-605
Link: meeting.tencent.com/dm/QvL0u…
Speaker: Joshua Knobe
Alex Wiegmann retweeted
Very happy to invite you to the second online-talk in our series. This thursday, Josh Knobe and Ivar Hannikainen, 4pm, everyone welcome, link in comment.
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New preprint: We tested 8 open-source LLMs for outcome bias in legal judgment. Unlike humans and older commercial models, they show little to no bias—but differ in baseline severity. Promising for AI-assisted debiasing, with caveats. Link: rb.gy/uyakoj
