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Ongoing & recent projects

BOOKS

 Collection
Anna's AI Anthology. How to live with smart machines?
with AbuMusab, Bonard, Butterfill, Dennett, Deroy, Droege, Frankish, Gilbert & Tacca, Lin, Nyholm, Rust, Shevlin, Strasser & Schwitzgebel, Wilby


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Monograph
INBETWEENISM
Why ethical positions appear outdated in the face of the new AI technology


    Book project with Wolfgang Sohst
working title: The (ir-)rational human being


Project on Large language models

  1. Investigating strategies of how to distinguish human and machine generated text (with John Dorsch, Sven Nyholm, David Schwitzgebel)
  • Schwitzgebel, Eric, Schwitzgebel, David, Strasser, Anna (2023). Creating a Large Language Model of a Philosopher. Mind & Language, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12466
  • Strasser, A., Crosby, M., Schwitzgebel, E. (2023). How far can we get in creating a digital replica of a philosopher? In R. Hakli, P. Mäkelä, J. Seibt (eds.), Social Robots in Social Institutions. Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2022. Series Frontiers of AI and Its Applications, vol. 366, 371-380. IOS Press, Amsterdam. doi:10.3233/FAIA220637

Papers in preparation:

  1. Wilby, Michael & Strasser, Anna. Developing Artificial Minds: Joint Attention, Joint Action and the Limitations of Current AI.
  2. Philosophische Mensch-Maschinen-Interaktionen.
  3. Don't worry they are just playing. (Opinion paper on capabilities of LLMs)
  4. Live longer: Joint commitments revisited.
  5. What is Belief? In favor of a gradual, disjunctive conceptualization of belief.
  6. Collective Irrationalities: How to agree on good reasons
  7. Social Cognition & Reciprocity

DenkWerkstatt Berlin

  • Scientific Consultation for LMU
  • Supervision of a PhD-project
  • Lectorate & sparring-partnership for a book project


Organization of scientific events

PhiDOS – Philosophy of Digitality Open Space, 12 October 2023
Topic: LLMs & workshop "Humans and smart machines as partners in thought?" (some speakers were virtually present)

Humans and Smart Machines as Partners in Thought?
HYBRID TWO-DAY WORKSHOP 10-11 MAY 2023, UC Riverside, US
with Ned Block, David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, Ophelia Deroy, Paula Droege, Keith Frankish, Joshua Rust, Eric Schwitzgebel, Anna Strasser


LINK to the recordings of the talks
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