Tenure track is a precarious position (i.e. not permanent) where you sprint for 6 years between the ages of 34-40 and if you don't you are fired. Note: doing a PhD and post-doc push back the start age back further than normal jobs. https://
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Tenure Track: Precarious Academic Employment and Career Pressures
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Rethinking tenure-track timing for gender equity in academia
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The 6-years of tenure-track should not fall at the same time as women's final child-bearing years. Fundamental rethinking of the tenure process.
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Academic Tenure System Needs Reform for Modern Workforce Balance
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It's not just the 1st year – for years after birth the evenings and weekends are simply not available for the work that tenure-track demands. An overhaul of the tenure track system, created when a professor had a full-time homemaker, is needed.
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Legal Status of AI: Corporate Protections and Ethical Implications
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Thanks! I'd heard of this before, and I believe in India there are deities that also have an elevated legal status. For AI creators, the question is whether we *want* to go this direction. I think Joanna's take is no, why would we? Companies shield humans, so is it similar?
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Agentic Perspectives: Ethics of AI Deployment and Sentience
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Speaking of position, does it matter if we are looking at the situation from an agentic perspective? For example, in this case we are addressing creators building and changing the situation itself. I'm not going to deploy a robot that actually feels pain, for example.
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Interconnectedness and Care Beyond Utilitarian AI Ethics
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Thanks for taking the time to explain. I think I understand this as a sense of interconnectedness with the world and its contents which goes beyond utilitarianism. I was in Japan for 6 years, and it reminds me of the care and consideration there which surpassed law.
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Industrial Robots: EnchantedTools and Navel Robotics Interaction
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We Are Obliged to Build AI We Are Not Obliged To
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"We are obliged to build AI we are not obliged to." – Practical and rational talk by @j2bryson
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Beyond Turing: Evaluating Machine Intelligence Without Human Claims
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Several years ago I discussed a modified Turing test in this article, because in robotics we've faced this issue for a while (anthropomorphism). It's out of date; the Garland test for machines that don't claim to be human is probably still relevant. https://
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Testing Human Consciousness: Frameworks and Scientific Approaches
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There are a couple tests used for human consciousness, e.g. https://
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